[Butchering your own deer?]

we average 3-6 deer a year...I gut hang and skin all my own  deer and do most of the butchering my self as well..Hey the guys have paying jobs and the home and properties are mine...if a middle aged woman can handle the job alone anyone can ...because  I hang head down...I start with the shoulders and work my way up by the time I get to the gamble hook there is just the legs attached to the hams...I cut down the middle and do one ham at a time...it's pretty simple really ...but have a good sharpener and several good knives of differant sizes and a good meat saw

[Antler Restrictions - What are your thoughts?]

I post ...patrol and arrest...My daughter was nearly shot her first gun season on our land...I've been nearly shot 3x's ...Had a truck stop out front with a guy in the bed drawing a bow down on our wht Sannan goats...The farmer we bought from.... described what  Doc says happened to him self and father...He sold us his land over his own 13kids and umpteen grand kids...Saying this to me...NEVER say yes...they are like cockroaches  and next thing you know you'll have ppl asking you who the he!! you are on your own land....I had a trespasser say just that to me...before I escorted him to his car and had him arrested...I've had trespassers call me up and swear at me over the phone....Seriously how dare I the mortgage and tax payer keep them off my lands...Are you kidding?

As far as restrictions...I say no ..it should be voluntary....I plot and have seen a great increase in body and rack sizes and the hunting is near elbow to elbow here....I know that the rack craze already has guys shooting and walking away...wanting to tag a little bigger...that despicable behavior would increase ..at least here ..IMO

[The "Official" Where are you from, where do you hunt / fish thread.]

Here at home in the hills of 8N and down at camp in Alfred 8X