Beartooth83
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I harvested this deer yesterday in South East Montana. He looked completely healthy and all his muscle groups looks strong and normal. The first picture is from very close proximity to the tenderloin. I am mediately saw all these clusters of dark bubbles . On further inspection I realize that they were filled with blood . They were located in the fatty tissue but nothing was attached to the tenderloin itself . Have any of you guys seen this before and is it safe to eat the meat ?
The second picture is of the inner ear canal . When I was skinning the skull and as I cut the ear canal, I noticed colonies of ticks in each ear canal. I’ve seen tix on deer’s ears before but never so many living in the ear canal itself . They varied in size and their bodies were kind of pale colored with almost yellow legs.
These two findings have me a little concerned if the meat is safe to eat . Like I said other than these two findings everything else looks normal . None of the meat was spongy or strange looking at all . Please let me know if you guys have seen anything like this before and if I should be concerned
