Culvercreek hunt club

My daughter got it yesterday.

Not to hijack the thread but I just got about 15 poplar boards off a guy that planed them to 1/2" and 5/8" for me. I need more fox, coon and coyote boards. I am going to make the adjustable wooden ones.

interested in making your own fleshing beam? I made a narrow one for things like fisher and fox, a wide one for large items like beaver or deer and a standard one for coon and coyote. I made them from a large PVC pipe and cut out with a jig saw rounded the edges with a 4-1/2" grinder with a flapper wheel on it. They work great, are easy to clean and store easily. simply mounted on a 2x4 and each slides in and out of a bracket I screwed on the work bench. I have a left over section of that big PVC pie if you are interested.

Me and a buddy did two last night. 3.5 hours from hanging to cleaned up, lights out and walking out. We vacuum seal and have changed how we go about things over the last couple years. We are never sure what we want to eat at any particular time so here is what we opted for. Back straps trimmed and in about 8" long sections inner loins together in a bag. Neck is taken off the bone in a single chunk and used for pulled venison or chunked Hinds are trimmed into roasts and frozen as single roasts. (no cutting of steaks). Front shoulders and all the rest is trimmed and chunked. This is saved with all the like bags from the deer in the season for our February sausage making. If i want steaks I take out a roast and cut it appropriately. if I want jerky I take out a roast, partially thaw and put it through the meat slicer. It's there ready to roll if I want a roast. if I want burger I grind a roast. I can't glue it back together but can cut it however I want down the road. It' cuts down on the processing time as well

You boys waited around too long. I'm taking this so I can toss it over into the lake where my other guns fell off the boat.

I wish I had a lower to go with this...lol

Believe what you choose. the dark variation is melanistic the white variation is leucistic. They are NOT albino and are not from Europe. https://www.senecawhitedeer.org/index.cfm?Page=About White Deer

They're not different deer from Europe.

The ones at the base and around are not albino. (there are some albino but the ones on the base are just a recessive color variation. They are Melanistic https://www.deerassociation.com/melanistic-whitetails-heres-know/

Pretty much. Marten as well https://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/45559.html

saw that one too. Pretty cool

I guess the same reason that some furbearers can't be hunted. (no idea what that is...lol)

but plenty of gut piles if it can compete with the fox.

I've had them come right up and almost challenge me up north a couple times. Sit up on hind legs and kind of a hiss growl. I've seen them hunting in the brush during daylight up there too.

tags? you regular season tag IS valid in late season. Either sex. DMP's are also valid in the WMU they were issued for during late season.

soft spot in my heart for English Springers. I have owned 2 and love the breed.

Probably some or our most memorable at camp. Cabana Embassy Chernobyl (first 3 years the blind was up there was no life around it...lol. Now it's one of the better producers) ask @steve863 Broke back mountain.

even with a xbow or a bow you can be staring into the sun and need some help

tighten it up and hunt with it.

if it is the "interior" retainer nut for the objective lens then the lens is likely loose. You mean the outer on in the picture....right?

The objective ring will not change you POI. the cross hairs are internal and on many scopes its more like a thread protector and you can unscrew it and screw in a longer one that is a sun shade.

Access as Moog mentioned, hunter numbers down, Technology betterments. The falls and winters are much more gentle now. (I remember walking in snow up to my knees). Clothing, boot and gloves are so much more efficient now. You can actually sit all day. We had no choice but to move to keep hunting all day back then. Still hunt or do drives just to warm up.

The reality si though that almost all animals in nature meet a fate that we wouldn't wish on them. It's likely that even if that animal makes it to the "old age" where it could die in it's sleep, it will be taken down and consumed by a predator or succumb to the elements. The weak and old are prime targets. Just reality. I don't think he worded it well but I understood what he meant.

hunted correctly it could help you more than it actually helps them.

Next year take a new hunter out as a goal for the season. I can tell you from first hand experience, if you want to feel a sense of accomplishment and that "rush" of a first harvest again...that is the way.