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       Cleaning game and fish
   DIR By: Jinxed
       Date: August 11, 2022, 5:51 pm
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       Cleaning Game
       Remove the horns or antlers and put them in the storage area for
       use in carving handles and such. Get permission to us a knife.
       Skin the animal carefully, keeping the hide in one piece. Start
       by hanging the animal by its back legs. Cut up and through the
       hide on the inside of the hind legs. Make a circular cut around
       the joint of each leg. with the sharp point and blade of a
       knife, skin out the hindquarters.
       Saw off the hind legs below the joints. Slice down the belly
       towards the neck. Grab the hide and pull, much of it will peel
       right off. In spots where the hide sticks, skin with the knife.
       Cut off the tail.
       Don't let the long hair get on the meat. Keep pulling, and
       skinning the hide over the ribs and down to the shoulders. cut
       along the insides of the front legs and skin them out. Pull and
       skin the hide down over the animals head. Put the hide in the
       storage area to be cured.
       When gutting the animal save the gut for casings for sausages.
       They must be clean and soaked in a solution of water and
       disinfectant then hung to dry. The bladders are also saved to
       make botas. Boil them in water and then set them to dry.
       The meat may now be cut into roasts, steaks ets. and stored.
       Cleaning Fish
       1.  Scrape the scales from the fish
       2.  Cut the belly of the fish open to gut it, cut fins off
       3.  Cut the head from the body and carefully filet the fish,
       looking for bones
       4.  Take filets to the kitchen for cooking, being dried or
       smoked
       5.  Place heads and fins in a bucket for the sleen
       6.  Place any fine bones to dry, then store away for making
       needles
       ***Save bones to make needles and fish scales for crafting
       jewelry
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