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Marrakai
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Re: Annual Pilgrimage for Antlers
      06/05/25 08:39 AM

Thanks for your comments, gentlemen.

"Sounds like you were worried for a while not finding the stag."
Understatement of the year!!

Quote:

What are meat ants?


I could use lots of swear words, but in truth they are very efficient "recyclers" of anything made of meat that dies in the bush.
A fairly large ant with strong mandibles, and not afraid to use them on anything or anyone they perceive as a threat,
especially someone trying to remove bits of a fresh carcass they have "found".
...and they SWARM!
Fortunately they only bite and can't sting.

Close-up of the stag's eyes when I finally found him:

He had been dead for no more than an hour but was covered in the little buggers.
Tried repeatedly to brush them off for the photo but by the time I set the timer and jumped into frame they were back!
Did I mention they were tenacious?!



They have a strong smell of formic acid and need to be completely removed from the meat as soon as possible.
I also trim the meat a bit more than might otherwise be needed before cutting it up.
A single meat ant in the gob would definitely ruin the venison experience!



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* Annual Pilgrimage for Antlers Marrakai 04/05/25 05:16 PM
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. * * Re: Annual Pilgrimage for Antlers DarylS   05/05/25 01:02 AM
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. * * Re: Annual Pilgrimage for Antlers Marrakai   05/05/25 11:18 AM
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. * * Re: Annual Pilgrimage for Antlers prairie_ghost   06/05/25 09:43 AM
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