This is an easy way to get delicious meat that isn't gamey and is much less expensive than a butcher. First, buy: large oven bags, a gallon of salsa, equal amount of stewed tomatoes, spices, onions, sheets or towels or burlap, bailing wire. Fill your 3-4 foot hole with wood and let it burn down. If there is grass near, wet the grass before you start or your fire will get away from you.
When it's burned down, to coals, put a screen over it if you want.
Separate the legs and put one in each bag; separate the torso into small enough pieces to fit into bags. Spice with whatever you want.
Mix the salsa and stewed tomatoes and pour a little in each bag.
You can use other things such as cream of mushroom soup instead. Use whatever you want. Tie the bags and wrap in sheets that you previously soaked in water. Wrap with bailing wire and leave a loop to hook onto when it's done.
Put all bags in the hole. This hole was a piece of concrete piping that was going to be thrown away so we got it and buried it. The meat used here was a bear.
Put a metal lid on and cover the lid with 4-5 inches of dirt. When it's completely covered it will hold in the heat and not smoke.
Leave it for about 24 hours. Uncover and use a gaff to pull them out. Unwrap them. The meat just falls off the bones so you just pick the bones out and have boneless deep pit that is better than any you could buy.
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