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- Sat Dec 18, 2021 8:53 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: ATV loading a deer buy yourself
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3679
Re: ATV loading a deer buy yourself
I don't gut deer, not even while cleaning. Skin, remove shoulders, back straps, debone hams, get tenderloins out, remove neck meat and brisket if not bloodshot. A matter of preference and tradition I suppose. Exception is to gut if it's going to be a while before cleaning. A nice bbq hog, now that's...
- Tue Dec 14, 2021 8:02 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Meat prices
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2870
Re: Meat prices
Something I'm seeing here, in addition to higher meat prices, is that it's more difficult to run down beef or pork fat to go in hamburger and sausage. I just end up buying a boston butt or pork loin to mix in. There has been some lower quality meat as well, barely fit to eat.
- Tue Dec 14, 2021 7:20 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Ammo
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2192
Re: Ammo
There is ammo available online. Check ammoseek.com and gunbroker.com. It's not cheap though, and you can't be too selective. There is a basspro in my normal travel routes and I just kept stopping to check until they had some 270 I could live with. Then got 5 boxes, which was the limit per person. Go...
- Wed Dec 08, 2021 9:51 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: OT: December 7 1941
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1856
Re: OT: December 7 1941
On the subject, does anyone have any good recommendations for books on WWII by Canadian Authors?
- Wed Dec 08, 2021 9:33 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: OT: December 7 1941
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1856
Re: OT: December 7 1941
Haven't checked in for a while. Unfortunately, bow season in Florida coincides with the deadline of my largest contract every year, so the excalibur is growing old hanging on the wall in the gun closet. Good to see some old faces though. Yamamoto could see past the arrogance and knew what the score ...
- Mon Dec 16, 2019 10:22 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Risks To Our Environment And Hunting
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2551
Re: Risks To Our Environment And Hunting
My niece called me one evening after she had been to an earth day event and begged me not to cut down any more trees, as I am a forester and supervise a lot of commercial logging. :shock: Much of it is ridiculous, for example someone who is protesting the removal of trees for the construction of an ...
- Mon Dec 16, 2019 1:58 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Ticks on deer
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4180
Re: Ticks on deer
The ticks are a major problem where I hunt in Florida during archery season and a big reason why I haven't bow hunted much lately. They have usually gone mostly dormant by rifle season, then are back in high gear by spring turkey. I have treated corn with ivemec to put out for deer during the early ...
- Sun Dec 15, 2019 8:22 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: New Area (Update)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2300
Re: New Area (Update)
In Florida you just about have to buy something if you want a place to hunt.
- Sun Dec 15, 2019 8:18 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: freezing deer meat
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7750
Re: freezing deer meat
Nearly all of mine that is not cooked while fresh goes into sausage or hamburger. The bulk sausage and hamburger are put into packing bags with a packing kit. A friend that worked in a butcher shop got me started doing it like that and it was life changing. Links go into vacuum sealer.
- Sun Dec 15, 2019 7:55 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Anyone want to share their jerky marinades
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1593
Re: Anyone want to share their jerky marinades
I tried several jerky marinades and seasonings a couple of years ago when I got my electric smoker. My favorite was Dale's. Only marinade for 2-4 hours and no other seasoning needed. Lowery's cajun was great also but I haven't been able to find it again. I found most marinades to have too much sugar...
- Wed Dec 11, 2019 12:57 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Smokers ?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 12106
Re: Smokers ?
I picked up a cajun injector electric smoker a couple of years ago when cabelas had them on sale. It's a good entry level smoker for a beginner as it's super easy and almost fool proof, easy to clean also. I do deer jerky, turkeys, and chickens which everyone loves. Just started doing smoked link de...
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 4:13 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Expanded my my Culinary techniques
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5628
Re: Expanded my my Culinary techniques
The kid and I started making our own smoked sausage this year. It's turned out good but I can see that there will be a lot of fine tuning to do through experimentation and trial and error.
- Sun Nov 24, 2019 10:56 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Does attracting Bucks
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2873
Re: Does attracting Bucks
When the bucks are rutting hard you can't hardly pay a pack of does to hit my corn piles because the bucks have them staked out waiting to ambush the does. It's always the younger bucks that are the most aggressive, with the older bucks just slipping by occasionally in the background.
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 9:22 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Small hand held GPS
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3671
Re: Small hand held GPS
I've had a couple of the Garmin etrex handhelds. I found them very simple to use and performed adequately. A good economical entry level handheld. I would suggest getting one with a base map and the app with the topo maps that you install on computer, and the computer cable. As has been mentioned, y...
- Wed Nov 06, 2019 9:06 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Story from Ranger's Station
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4432
Re: Story from Ranger's Station
"I really fear what the world will be for my Grand kids." Getting more and more that you have to buy a small hunting tract for yourself or else you are at the mercy of others. Was out yesterday inspecting a timber property for a customer, riding around on an atv, and on the way back to the...