Culvercreek hunt club

"The problem is that deer digestion is a finely tuned physiological process. Just the right combination of microorganisms, enzymes, and pH enable deer to digest a normal winter diet of woody vegetation. When offered a sudden supply of corn, a deer’s digestive system doesn’t have time to adjust to a high carbohydrate diet. The result can be acute acidosis followed by death within 72 hours. At the time of death these individuals can appear normal and well fed. It’s just that they cannot digest the corn. Within six hours, corn alters the environment in the rumen. It turns the rumen acidic and destroys the microbes needed for normal digestion. Not all deer die immediately from acidosis. Its effects vary with the age and health of the individual. Some may simply slow down, get clumsy, and become easy prey to speeding traffic and hungry coyotes. It takes deer two to four weeks of feeding on a new food source to establish populations of microbes necessary to digest the new food. It can’t happen in just a few days during a snowstorm. And healthy individuals that might survive in the short term often succumb to complications weeks later"

a year or two ago there was a woman in western NY that got ticketed for that very thing. killed more than a few.

MB550's?

I think I am going to swing in on Sunday and take a peek. I certainly didn't end up with any fur that would warrant going to an auction but I want to see the process and hopefully I'll have more for later.

Is that why you were out drowning your sorrows on Friday evening? lol

1/2 gallon of water. 1 cup of Kosher salt, 1 cup of brown sugar, 1 tablespoon of Pink curing salt #1, 3 crumbled bay leaves, 6 whole cloves, 3 tables spoons of ground black pepper Combine all ingredients and submerge up to a 4# roast in brine for 6-7 day in the refrigerator. (Personally next time II will back off the salt to about 2/3 of a cup and I did inject it since I only had 4 days to brine it). I'd like a touch less salt taste, but it was a nice contrast with the sweet spicy of the drizzle. Make sure the roast stay submerged. Remove and rinse the roast. pat dry and let it sit out until surface is tacky. Smoke at 180 degrees with a moderate heavy smoke using a water pan. I like maple or a fruit wood. not a hickory fan. Make sure the roast is least 4" above the water pan. smoke until the internal temp is 130 and then remove water pan and continue to cook until the internal reached 155 degrees. This is about the only time I ever go this high with venison. it really makes the texture very similar to an actual ham. Drizzle. This can be used as a glaze from the time you remove the water pan on. I like to let each person decide if they want to use it. 1 cup of favorite BBQ sauce ( I like Sweet Baby Rays) 2 table spoons of brown sugar 1/3 cup of favorite bourbon. ( I used Iron Smoke straight) 1/4 cup of Jalapeno juice Combine and stir until the grittiness of the sugar is dissolved. Slice across the grin of the roast and add the drizzle.

Virgil. Smoked venison ham with BBQ bourbon jalapeno drizzle. Brined for 6 days and then smoked. served cold. Pickled venison heart on the right

Well yesterday wrapped up the 2019 Filed to Fork program for the Greater Rochester Branch. We held our Culinary Social and each mentor/instructor and participant were asked to bring a venison dish to pass. We started the day at about 1 pm with some cooking instruction. We covered different meat cuts and use and had a demonstration by Mo Tidball on making Venison Cutlets and meatloaf. I covered venison pressure canning and each participant that attended and some of our volunteers tried their had at preparing canes of venison to their own taste. We made enough that anyone attending the event was able to bring jars of canned venison home with them. (pic 2 and 3). At around 4 the rest of the gang showed up and we shared many laughs, some cold adult beverages and some great venison appetizers including smoked venison ham with a BBQ bourbon jalapeno drizzle, cheese trays, venison cutlets, stuffed venison peppers and pickled venison heart. Dinner was a combination of venison chili, venison kabobs, venison lasagna, a venison potato casserole, venison meatloaf and pulled venison. Each participant took the stage to share their hunting stories and it was great to hear the experiences they had went far beyond them actually taking a deer. I totally screwed up and forgot to bring the Branch Field to Fork cookbooks to hand out so those will be mailed and all of these recipes will be added to give out to next year's class. July will be here in a blink of an eye and we all look forward to another successful year in 2020. Thanks to all of you for following along and sharing in their journey.

pork fat doesn't hold up to age in the freezer as good as beef fat does

This is usually where I stock up on cleaning supplies like brushes and picks

We will have a pick up date (s) in a central location. Probably the same as last year. Henrietta, NY

We will again have the Habitat Seed Program that makes seed available to our members at an affordable cost and planted as a benefit to wildlife. It’s a great deal for plots and can be planted or broadcast. This is typically only for members in the following counties, Monroe, Livingston,Orleans, Genesee, Wyoming. Other counties should reach out to a more local branch. The contacts for other branches can be found at https://www.qdma.com/new-york/ Glyphosate Resistant Soybeans are available for this program. The seed will be one-year old seed that will germinate fine for food plots. The retail cost of this seed is between $80-$100 a bag. It should plant about a half-acre per bag or could be stretched with the addition of other species. The cost of each bag of soybeans is $11 per bag. I appears the branch will have between 200-250 bags allotted for us. We will be doing this a bit differently this year becasue of timing. At our March 14th banquet there will be a sign up for the seed and those attending will have an opportunity to sign up and pay for the seed on a first come first served basis. Please bring a separate check or other form of payment. It will be necessary for us to keep the banquet and seed funds separated. After the banquet, if there is a balance of seed remaining, I will post on social media and email our address book to open the balance of our shipment to other members. Restrictions are the same as previous years. This seed can NOT be sold, used for business purposes or harvested; it must be left for wildlife. A form will to be signed by each purchaser stating this intent. You MUST be a QDMA member to purchase the seed. You will need your membership card/number or attended our 2020 Banquet as proof.

I had it too and then could get on yesterday afternoon. Then again this morning it was the ad. Better now.

Happy birthday Bob.

The GRST QDMA Branch has established the Dudley Bailey Scholarship to demonstrate the high value that it places upon the efforts of our young adults to become involved in conservation efforts and the appreciation of our wildlife and its habitat. The GRST Branch wishes to recognize one outstanding student who takes a serious interest in his/her academics and has expressed and/or demonstrated a concern for and interest in wildlife management; particularly in the white-tailed deer. Preference will be given to students entering a field of study in Conservation (i.e., Wildlife Biology, Forestry, Conservation Police or related field). Any high school student graduating in 2020 and entering college in 2020 who reside in Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Orleans or Wyoming counties.

Something must have changed becasue the Fire Marshal has Field and Stream and old Gander all tied so they couldn't sell any type of powder.

Call Runnings in Brockport or Canandaigua

I said the same thing about how many ghost guns were used in crimes. It was sold as there being a huger percentage increase. I said to myself "yeah, from .0001% up to .001%?

This is an end around with the goal of removing the 2nd freedoms by design. The provision to require serial numbers on the key parts----A manufacture will not take on the additional work and paperwork to sell in the NY market.

If you bought only the muzzleloader privilege and not the archery privilege it is only good during the last 14 and the late season. (or the early ML in the NZ)

when you buy your Muzzleloader privilege you get an either sex tag. That is only good the last 14 days of bow and the late season (in areas that allow it, look at the map) Then the either sex tag is good for the late season. You can use your DMP's in either season with the xbow. Now to confuse it a bit. if you do not take an antlered deer with your regular season tag you can fill it in the late season and treat it as an either sex tag.

Yeah, I'd have to sleep on that one for a while.

We've got our culinary social and cooking instruction on January 12th. Then I have to buckle into banquet mode.

Well Ii finally got Nick's story. (the original hunt one, not the poacher encounter,. That one is being kept until our January 12th Culinary Social). Nick hunted Opening Sunday and that Monday and Tuesday with his mentor, Gene Crane. It was truly a hunting camp experience and Nick really enjoyed not only the hospitality of Gene, but the rest in the hunting party. The hunt that Nick is recounting in this write up took place on November 18th. Nick Ruffle’s hunt My Hunting Story: The day was long but the time was fast… 0500 the alarm chimed, and the member of the camp were wide awake like it was Christmas morning. The weekend prior was not a disappointment to say the least, we saw many, many animals in the woods, even herds of deer, however too far away to take a shot. This weekend I was determined to bring something home and my mentor was as ambitious as I was. We departed camp just before 0600 to be in position before sunrise. Throughout the morning we heard gun fire from near and far, the closer ones made us a little more excited… we know there are deer nearby, and if the hunter missed their shot, ours would be the next one! Sadly the morning ended with no harvest to report. During our lunch & rest break at camp, we all sat around the table discussing the morning hunts, who saw what and heard something from wherever. With similar stores it was safe to say we all saw something but that something was just too far away. We as a group decided where the afternoon hunt would take place. The camp consists of 220 acres across four different properties so there is plenty of room to spread out should we have had to. I chose to sit in a field they call “Taylor Hollow”. This was possibly some of the most beautiful scenery I have ever seen before. The views of the Appalachian Mountains were breath taking to say the very least. This was it! We had to be driven right to my hunting blind as the deer have been known to be so heavy in this area that the hunters do not want to spook them by walking up to the blinds. I was in place, ambitious and ready to hunt! Time passed on and the light started to fade. The time was 16:07 when she came walking from the woods to the field in front of me. I immediately felt my pulse start to race, what seemed moments prior as a cold blind began to feel like a sauna from my adrenaline rushing. I was patiently anxious awaiting for the shot! I had a doe come from across the field right in my sights. I was panting trying to control my breathing not to alert her. I remembered what the other hunters had said about letting them graze when they’re not alert because others may soon follow. It was getting to the point of legal shooting light was running out, I had to decide in that moment to take the shot. As I drew my rifle, I could feel my body shaking but was counting my breaths keeping control of the situation. She was face to face with me, so I did not have a shot until my luck changed and she went broadside. 3….2….Deep breath… BANG…1 I saw her mule kick and run off into the woods. I was excited, oh man was I excited, I shot my first deer!!! I think… she ran about 40yds then slowly walked into the woods, I wasn’t so sure anymore I had hit her, my mentor and I waited about 15minutes for her to go off and we relaxed. We began to track her from the spot I saw her kick to where she ran into the woods, so far it wasn’t looking good as we didn’t see any signs of a blood trail. And then there it was, this large puddle of bubbly pinkish red stuff, I was sure of what it was, but my mentor confirmed it, we had a blood trail with a great shot through the lungs. From that spot it was another 30yds to the south that we found her. I was so excited I could barely stand up and I still had to drag her! This was an incredible experience and for the rest of the night I couldn’t keep my mind off of the whole day, not just that moment, but all of it leading up to that shot. As I walked up to her to make sure she was dead, I kneeled by her and prayed. I thanked the good lord for her sacrifice as she will feed my family and was my first deer to be taken. I can’t wait to come out again, this has been such a rewarding journey from the start and hope someday I can return this kind gesture by mentoring a hunter of my own. Thank you QDMA for giving me this experience, I don’t think I could have gotten anywhere else.

So sorry to hear this First-light. It's really no different than losing any other member of the family. I wish they lived to be 80