Best way to preserve meat, fowl or fish is on the hoof or in the water... Salt is one of the hardest things to come by if there's not a store handy....
Just put both arms out in front of you with index fingers extended in the direction you want to go. Now look at your left finger with your right eye...
Last of the grandkids left at 12:30 so that's when my work day started... I didn't dare look at the temp or heat index or I wouldn't have stayed out...