Widows Son/Redneck
Cleaning the knife is more about preventing contamination
between carcases, rather than contamination
of carcases, or did that observation not occur to you?
Also, I must have missed it in the briefing, but since when has an AW been able to interpret Best Practice Guidance as he individually sees fit? Just my observation, but perhaps a read of the Best Practice Guidance on Gralloching would not go amiss - here is the link:
http://www.bestpracticeguides.org.uk/carcass_gralloch.aspx
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Wullie your missing the point, this has nothing to do with the AW briefing ( which i have been a AW for many years) of which I never mentioned ,or has it anything to do with the Best Practice Guides (of which i have subscribe too since there arrival), what it has to do with is practicalities, tell me this, these wipes are relatively new ,within the last 10 years, how did we in the deer stalking world ever survive with out such things .
A the moss/grass thing .
I'd love to know just how many on the site stick there knife in the ground whilst gralloching I bet plenty ,Ive seen it done on load of witness stalks. lol
I know what i go out with and wipes are not in the equation ,gloves, I do sometimes wear depending what like my hands are (cuts) etc.
So were all wiped out and gloved up now, what about the rest of the things I did mention.
Cross contamination does come in all sort of forms, from cleaning down your boots (disinfectant ) before going on the hill/forest but again we don't do it , then theres the transportation of carcasses without a chiller, we don't do that either .
We now have a further dilemma at our door step thats Lead ammunition.
Which the forestry commission have now been using Copper for quite a while with success ,for deer species again ,someone in there wisdom shining a seat with there arse said we must look at the contamination of the lead in the bullet, good god the greatest % of houses in the UK have lead pipes and were worrying about a bullet and its contamination to meat .
Wullie I am in no way trying to rubbish your or anyone else's post, just to further the cross contamination theory ,by looking at the rest of the issues of which there are thousands .
More useless information on the Moss thing, it was used during the 1ST World War for wounds because of is abilities to absorb blood and its healing properties. ( discovery channel)