Big game, big country, big rifle Part Two
- I am still unplugged in Indonesia. I have a little pre-scheduled post for you all, because I love you.
The interior of the wall tent we borrowed for hunting season. Sort of like summer camp with animal hides!
(Remember I was going to share Part Two of my hunting story? Here it is:)
There are realities about standing over an animal, newly dead, that I am not prepared for. First, to call that bull elk, slumped and emptied of breath, “inanimate” seems a misnomer. There’s the way the muscles, unhusked from hide and already more meat than agent of movement, occasionally and rapidly twitch. Second, one hour post mortem, a release of internal gasses roars so startlingly and without warning from the animal’s mouth that I flinch and duck….Read the rest of Modern Day Artemis II here.
Modern Day Artemis I is here
Also, Dan wrote an excellent story for Edible Southwest Colorado about his DIY meat smoker constructed on the fly at 11,300. Read about it here.
Smoke-cured bull elk tenderloin.
xo,
Rachel
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Hope the islands are treating you right. We were just out in Gunny-Crested Butte area and I picked up the Edible and serendipitously found your part II. Found it really interesting told from a point of view similar to my own (though I’ve never killed what I eat). Four days of walking! Thanks for writing it, and enjoy the bounty of that exciting, emotional hunt.
Artemis is awesome!
Simply starting out, all-you really need can be a little accordion file or simple envelopes (whichever you already have readily available is going to do).