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My lawnmower man was fading so I took him in for a touch up today.

I got him on Long Island won’t be able to process it until tomorrow. Solid 8 that’s my father’s rem. 1100 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

@Biz-R-OWorldhas a grinder. My bad, he said he is on Grindr. Sorry. Got mixed up.

Best wishes for a fast recovery! Folks are dropping like flies, vaccinated and unvaccinated, though the later faster of course. Still, it doesn't appear that omicron generally causes severe disease...but with so many hitting the floor, there's going to be an increase, regardless. Just a numbers game. What we are most concerned with now is the number of staff who are calling in sick, when they're needed most (and yes, I appreciate the irony of firing unvaccinated staff back in September - I was dead set against it, as I am mandates). And while I hope that omicron provides natural immunity for those who contract it, there is no guarantee how broad or persistent it may be. Nobody in the world can predict with certainty how this will shake out in a year or two. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst I guess. Be smart, stay safe, take care of each other, and take care of yourself. Obesity is among the biggest factors that contribute to disease severity (besides age, which we can't do anything about). It's always a great time to start getting in better shape; maybe now more than ever. Be well.

J No Idea what he weighed but everyone is posting buck pics and i wanted in again......

I lost my favorite log crossing due to the rain from Hurricane Ida over the summer. Found this one a few months ago. This one has potential until it freezes over.

Got this guy on Christmas eve. Weighed in at 25 pounds.

First ever bone in neck roast... I cant believe i did not get a pic of the finished roast but the family tore it up. Hands down the finest roast I have ever had. Seasoned with salt, pepper and garlic powder then marinated in balsamic and worstishire in the fridge for 24 hours.... Rosemary also...

The buck that I killed on 11/24/20 was 246 live weight / 196 dressed. He is the heaviest deer that has every been killed in my family, which includes 100s of bucks taken here in 8P/8R in Steuben County over by a span of 70+ yrs of hunting here (granted the average age class taken over this time has been far from being considered mature). As expected, he was very lean and I believe he would have been 25-30lbs heavier had he been killed a month earlier. His cape and body frame were notably larger than the 220lb dressed buck that I mounted for a buddy of mine that was killed on Oct 2 that year. As noted earlier, most of the highest scoring bucks that I've had the privilege of mounting or even know of locally have been smaller bodied deer than would be expected. Most people grossly overestimate a deer's weight and I've only ever seen a handful of confirmed 200# dressed deer from my area.

I read the entire 1st page of the post, but couldn’t contain my excitement. DO IT!!! Take the red pill, open Pandora’s box, go down that rabbit hole! This was my 1st year goose and duck hunting. Made a lot of new hunting buddies (1 one with a chocolate lab) and I HAD A BLAST, no pun intended. I was very lucky to have some new friends teach me the ropes. I love bow hunting for deer and would never give it up, but the comradery, excitement and action of goose/duck hunting is on another level. You know this, but when your deer hunting your normally alone, quiet and as still as possible. Hunting geese/ducks is completely the opposite, your with friends, when it’s slow you shoot the shit, drink coffee…one guy smoked cigars. I didn’t have a single hunt this season where we came home with nothing. I agree with everyone else…Don’t eat Mergansers. To me Geese taste like tangy beef and duck is delicious. Here’s some Duck Marsala

Both? Omicron is the vaccine you have been waiting for!

140lbs. 9"G2's with a 221/2" inside spread. 51/2 years old Quarrying towards me

I can't add anything to your question on post rut weights but can say I've killed (without checking my notes) two bucks over 200#. Not surprisingly both were archery kills, a 217# 8pt in 2009 in 8N and a 203# 11pt in 9H in 2015. For sure another one was crowding 200# but has some controversy surrounding it, lol. That was the one that Biz just can't let lie......I killed it and in the excitement of the moment, explained numerous times here, I didn't remove the heart and lungs when I weighed it. IIRC it was 205# with that in so my conservative accurate weight would be 195# just to NOT fudge anything. I've killed a couple others in the 180# range also. The guys I hunt with have been weighing anything obviously over 1.5 YO since the early 70's and until 2009 the heaviest buck was a 163#. Things have certainly changed for the better in the area for numerous reason such as less pressure from hunters, easier winters and high deer numbers among others. This is the 217# buck 203# buck

Maybe they wouldn’t steal it if the guts were still in it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

A Russian arrives in New York City as a new immigrant to the United States . He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says, "Thank you Mr. American for letting me into this country, giving me housing, food stamps, free medical care, and a free education!" The passerby says, "You mistaken, me Mexican." The man goes on and encounters another passerby. "Thank you for having such a beautiful country here in America ." The person says, "I not American, I Vietnamese." The new arrival walks farther, and the next person he sees he stops, shakes his hand, and says, "Thank you for wonderful America !" That person puts up his hand and says, "I am from Middle East . I am not American." He finally sees a woman and asks, "Are you an American?" She says, "No, I am from Pakistan." Puzzled, he asks her, "Where are all the Americans?" The Pakistani woman checks her watch and says, "Probably at work.."

This is gonna sound horrible, but I am trying to avoid it this week and next. I'm vax'd w/booster two Fridays ago. Normally I am pretty slack on safety protocols personally. That said, I have five freaking club level seats for the home Bills playoff game (should they have it at home)....I'm acting like a human in a zombie movie trying to avoid the virus. People are getting it left and right around here.

it doesn't tell me shit until you tell me one of them is hospitalized.

Biden hit the jackpot yesterday . He won the " Million " medal of honor. We are the only country in the world that has hit One Million new covid cases in one day. Just under a million the day before. He really knows how to shut down the virus dont he . Hope all you guys and your families and friends get well soon

I’m glad this is a common thing because we couldn’t figure out if it was just our area or not. Part of me thinks people pass the ugly bucks for lack of antlers so they have an easier time growing old. Our two biggest bodied bucks were PY but barely This one is my biggest bodied… not super long but really fat, which is kinda hard to tell in this picture This is my bow buck from 2020 and is one of my higher scoring NY deer but he was 30 pounds less than the buck in the last pic and taken 10 days earlier. He was a public land buck though with no meaningful ag around so was surviving off acorns and suburb landscaping Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

He’s trying! He was my #1 target this year but he shifted his range after spending the last 3 years as a homebody on my farm and we only ever got night pics and one sighting in the gray light. Pretty sure I know where he moved so will be knocking on some doors and hopefully catch up to him next year Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

187 on 11/21, weighed three days later FWIW so lets call him 225 lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

This one was 184lb.The one and only deer I ever weighed ,for the simple fact my buddy was interested in weighing it ,so we did at his place .I shot the buck on Oct 2nd .(last season)

Our biggest bodied bucks have been on the lower end of our antler spectrum and our highest scoring bucks typically haven’t had much for bodies. Weird dynamic Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That seems similar to us in 8H, all the ones I killed and weighed were 4+. We’re in prime ag though and always have a few pigs that are 200+. Interestingly, it’s never the ones with the biggest antlers. Like this one from this year, just a mean fat old slob. I think my buck this year was just rutted down. I’ve never killed one close to this late before to have anything to compare it with Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

He was a fat slob. Antlers didn’t come close to matching the body though. My buddy killed a bigger one but we never got a weight on him. When I was in Kansas someone killed one just under 300 dressed and that thing was a horse! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We weigh all our deer. For the area we hunt the general averages follow. For pre and early rut bucks. 1.5 yo - 115-125 2.5 yo - 135-145 3.5 yo - 155-165 4.5 yo - 175 - 185 5.5 yo 185 - 195 older 175- 200 - we personally have not taken a buck over 200 in CNY and I do not remember too many I have even heard of. There are always outliers these are averages. Post rut bucks 2.5 and lower seem to lose less weight. 5-15% Older bucks can lose quite a bit more than that even. As you can figure our sample includes a lot more earlier bucks than late season bucks.

One i killed this year on 11/27 weighed 188 dressed.. wny 8G

210 is a MONSTER Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I think I might be able to give him a run for the money it’s was my grandfather’s and is ~80 years old but still running strong Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Update on the guy that stole my friends deer. I sent the DEC officer pins of where the gut pile was, and he was able to find it. I haven't heard the whole story yet, but the guy basically admitted that he took the deer. His story was that he shot a deer, gutted it and thought that was his deer so he took it. Obviously its a complete lie. He knew he missed those deer he shot at and he found a deer that was gutted and had a drag rope attached to it

Oh I saw the Meat! But was deathly afraid to Google it. Who knows what would show up. Kind of like the sporting goods store that used to sell guns & ammo. You DONT want to Google “Dick’s”.

Lamb night Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I’ve made my contributions this year. 4x. Lol

My doctor told me the same thing last week ,vitamin C and 4000iu of vitamin D

Nope

Good luck .My Wife (unvaccinated)and also my parents have had it for the last week .My mom who has colon cancer also ,is recovering fine .All had regular cold symptoms.Myself and my kids have nothing .We have had a large amount of vaccinated at work go out also .

Just blame it on your taxidermist. If only they could know about the size and quantity of the ticks too...lol!!!

Someone is skipping leg day

Not a fan of the texas heart shot

That things a beast. How many HP? I’ve been using the kitchenaid for single deer and the 3/4 HP for multiple deer or sausage batches. For one deer the clean up on the big grinder takes more time than the grinding.

Ill let ya know if it falls through.

That one was my great grandfathers and I would guess that it was first put together in the early 1920’s. If it’s not a hundred yet, it is pretty close. I put a different motor on it after the one my grandfather had on it drowned in the basement after the old house burned. I also put a new #12 knife and 3/16 screen on it, about 100 deer ago, and again right before the last one last year. In the old days, my grandfather would get them sharpened, but nobody seems to do that anymore. A new set was $30 on Amazon last year. It plugged up on me a few times, on my last deer, 2 years ago. It ran a whole bigger one thru last year, as fast as I could load it, without missing a beat. I am afraid to look inside the gear-reduction assembly, which looks like it came off of a model T Ford. I also changed the belt one time, maybe 10 years ago. I don’t think I am going to use it on the deer that’s hanging in the garage now. We have a very good supply of grind already, and those button bucks make real tender stew meat for in the crockpot.

The only buck that I weighed, in the last 10 years, was killed on opening day of sz gun season and weighed 182 pounds field-dressed on a “legal for trade” butcher’s scale. I only did that to calibrate the PA chest girth chart, which one of our members was kind enough to post on here a few years ago. I can now get a pretty good idea of their weight, and approximate edible yield, using just a tape measure and that chart. In my area (wmu 9F) that’s about the average field-dressed weight of a 3.5 year old buck on that date. 4 or 5 other members (mostly from wNY) also weighed and measured their bucks that year. It seems that the PA chest girth chart consistently underestimates the weight of a wNY deer. I can only assume that is because whitetail deer tend to be heavier, near the northern edge of their range . The little ones they have down in FL illustrate that pretty well. The only antlered buck that I killed last year might have been a few pounds heavier. It’s chest girth measured 1/4” more than the 182 pounder’s. One of the issues with weighing field dressed deer, is that the weight varies so much with time. When the guts are first removed, well over half of the measured weight is made up of water, which has no nutritional value. The longer the deer hangs, before it goes on the scale, the more that water percentage drops, and the weight drops accordingly. The chest girth method provides for more time-independent results and better approximation of edible yield volume. I always want to know how many quart sized bags I will need to package my meat, That is a volume, not a weight measurement.

Fried potatoes. First run in the new Matfer black steel pan received during the holidays. Pork chops n gravy will be up in a few minutes.

This made the trip worth it. Great time and will be back. The house and hosts were great.

I am hoping to connect with this one, this coming season in 9 months and 28 days..lol

Landowner appreciation (she is also my lady... her little woodlot between two bedding areas sealed the deal for me!) ... venison/pork meatballs in marinara sauce made with homegrown Romas

This is the pond we plan on duck hunting next season.

No plate presentation but this is a snip it of what is on the menu tonight. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk