Xbolt2506

I love the heart but what I do is a little different. First, I put a can of Sprite and a cup of milk in a Ziplock bag with the heart for a few days and let it tenderize. I like to let it simmer in apple cider or beet juice with your choice of seasoning. I chop some onions and garlic if using the beet juice. Apple cider...of course you have to use cinnimon!

Depends on what you're looking for. I have 3 recipes that I swear by. My friends and I do a lot of tailgating at sporting events and camping and we all like hot sausage. For patties I do a cajun that is pretty spicy but not over-whelmingly hot, I grow and dry my own garlic and put a good amount of it in the cajun. For links I use natural hog casing and do a hot italian which is similar to most that you find online. I think I found my recipe online a few years ago and have just tinkered with it and put my own little touch on it year after year. I have Buffalo Bills season tickets so we usually are tailgating by 9am on Sundays and we always do breakfast. I do a breakfast sausage with pure maple syrup marinade. Unbelieveable. That is a recipe that I found online also and made a few different batches with a few different twists. The joy of cooking wild game is putting your own signature on it. Take a few different peoples ideas and make them your own.

I have a Brinkmann charcoal smoker and the problem I find with it is that it is hard to regulate the temperature. It stays way to hot to actually smoke meat. I have tried jerky and sausage and have had much better luck with the jerky. What I do is get the charcoal going then add the chips, once the smoke starts pouring I put my jerky strips in for one hour only. I try to smoke them pretty heavy for the one hour and then transfer the venison from smoker right to the dehydrator until it finishes. That seems to work good for me but it just takes some practice. Like I said, I havent been able to smoke the sausage at a low enough temperature to get good flavor. I am considering going with an electric smoker this winter.

Ghost Quiver fixed that for me.

I shoot 100 grain on axis arrows at 60 lbs and 27 inch draw. I get 292 f/s and will never shoot at anything outside of 30 yards. If you are rigged up close to this and are also not comfortable shooting at an animal from outside that distance, I recommend 100 grain.

The past few years I have had good luck using Grave Digger by Code Blue. It is a scrape aide that hasnt failed me since I've begun using it. I believe this will be my third season using it. I have seen an increase in bucks on camera within a week of putting ScrapeMate on the ground each of the past two seasons, and have shot decent bucks from stands near the scent. That being said, I hadnt gone a year without shooting a buck in this area in the five or six years before this so it very well may be a coincidence. I would say it is at least worth a shot. Good luck!

243 will drop a deer with decent accuracy. I prefer the 25-06 with a 117 grain bullet. It has a little more force than the .243 so the shooter (especially being a youngster) will have more room for error. It doesnt recoil nearly as much as the 30-06. As I said, I prefer the 25-06, but anything from .243 through .270 should be fine depending on your sons tolerance and experience shooting. Good luck!