Doewhacker

I would use up your extra stew meat, I add pork fat to mine so it stays together better and also fat helps to add a bit of flavor, beleive it or not fat coats your toungue and makes things taste better. Thats why stuff like potato chips and french fry's are good. I add 25-30% fat to my mix some guys go 50%, its up to you and what you like. So in other words if you have 10 pounds of venisin add 3 pounds of pork fat. You can get it at any butcher shop usually but watch out for cost. Some places offer it at @$4 a pound and others down around $1.25 a pound. Ofcourse you could not add fat at all too.

Thats how the knife sharpening service I use at work does it, a wheel seems like it might be tricky at first but once you learn it look out. When we get our knives back through the service they are scary sharp.

Look up Henkel or Wusthof Knives, instead of spending $70 for a set of crappy knives spend it on one good boning knife and you will be all set, trust me as a kitchen guy who has handled his share of knives.

I lost a buck on the Friday before gun season to road hunters, unreal what some will do. We tracked the wounded deer and heard the shot, and had old blood in the spot they shot him. Class acts.

Thats my opinion too...started with a wound and progressed to hungry coyotes. I had a buck 2 years ago that I wounded and when we tracked him down and finished him the next day the coyotes were giving him hell. That was a gruesome scene to say the least.

"Don't get me wrong the opening of bow season on Oct 1st would be sweet, but again, this is just favortism to the bowhunters, and the gun hunters get nothing. So you want to give bow hunters another 2-3 weeks (depending on the current date of opening day of bow season) and then take away a week of gun season" I hear you on the fairness but at the same time bow hunters only kill @35,000 deer a year where as gun hunters take down @170,000+ a year. Obviously the state relies heavily on the money from gun hunters and also their deer kill numbers to help keep the herd in check. I don't think adding a couple of weeks to bow season will add a whole lot of kills to the bow column and honestly I don't know that chopping the gun season would hurt alot of guys..but again I don't know what the effects would be long term and these are just opinions any way. Being a bow hunter I would love some more time in the woods, but I don't think that would be ok for the rest of the 700,000 hunters in NY.

Good point WNY, I failed to consider the trunk being the ok place to put it for some reason.

Bubba ...."just another sign of hunter greed" Is that why you had no problems when your buddy signed over his doe permit to you? Hipocracy has no limits for some. Good god, he made a mistake. Good for you hidehunter I am glad you got some meat in the freezer.

Yup..tarp it, or buy the extra scotch gaurd package..or whatever its called...when you get a new car. The look on the sales lady's face when I asked her if it applied to blood stains was priceless. haha

Wouldn't transporting a flask to your hunting spot violate the open container law? My guess is yes so you would be breaking a law before even getting to your spot, unless of course you have it at a camp and fill it there. Just another reason not to do it in my opinion, save the celebration for a safe place.

"It's all over the internet, so at least 50% of the reports must be true." hahahahahahaha Thats a good one! hahahahaha

If I had to put a number on it, 8. I personally had a struggle making it count and only got one doe(110#). I had 4 shots counting the doe, one clean miss, one tree, and a buck that I didn't hit hard enough to get. My brother got a very nice 9 while still hunting that weighed 160. Overall I hunted the most hours ever, saw 34 doe's and 4 bucks. It has been a frustrating season but good still, even though we are in to gun season low in the deer take column I have hopes of making it back up. I will have to pick up a gun and hunt for the first time in years. Ah yes and all of our hunting was from the ground this year. Oh yea that buck I hit Friday has a twist, we tracked him for a long way and he had returned to rutting activity and as we were within sight of a road we saw some guys road hunting in a van....one minute later we heard..BANG!. Yup you guessed it after tracking even further we found that they had shot that buck. What a way to end the season!

Here is another study they did, pay attention to the other options they came up with in case hunters don't kill enough deer. Page 19 is something, just the idea that some one considered it enough to put it in a report is bad. Now I don't think its anything to worry about, I just found it interesting and wanted to share. www.dec.ny.gov/docs/wildlife_pdf/Deermgtopt08.pdf

These are just wrap up reports from the DEC with more info promised, I found it and thought I would share with the you guys... www.dec.ny.gov/docs/wildlife_pdf/deersurvppt2010.pdf www.dec.ny.gov/docs/wildlife_pdf/deerplanppt2010.pdf

Not anymore but I used to and my brother and I rode different trails around parts of the state. Trail quality depends largely on what time of day and week you go, the popular trails get the snot beat out of them all day long and turn bad after a short amount of time. So if you go mid week early in the morning it can in fact be great. Compared to other states IMO the grooming is lacking through out the state, usually it is left up to local clubs and sometimes they don't have the man power or funds to care for the trails. States like Maine and Minnesota are miles ahead of NY but they also get loads more snow. Some thing to watch out for if you do buy one and go is the other people that you share the trails with, alot of them are ok but as with any hobbie there are bad apples..ie. drunks. Another thing to remember is it ain't a cheap past time, gas, food, more gas..it adds up fast and anything you get while on the trail will cost more. It is fun though and at times I do miss it, some day I may get another one for riding around home..I am near trails and lots of woods. Luckily my father inlaw just bought a extra sled so who ever can go with him and my son, he has a little 120 and loves riding. I actually sold my sled to buy my rifle, I get more use out of a rifle and it doesn't require gas to operate

Thats your opinion...these are facts. According to the Congressional Budget Office, they concluded that 0.2% of all healthcare dollars go to pay lawsuits and 0.3% is dedicated to the “unnecessary tests” that doctors ordered to avoid lawsuits. Compareably, obesity is said to cost the healthcare system anywhere between 8-10% of all healthcare dollars. "Health economists have long warned that obesity is a driving force behind the rise in health spending. For example, diabetes costs the nation $190 billion a year to treat, and excess weight is the single biggest risk factor for developing diabetes" Money spent on obesity and its related illness's are measured in the billions.

There is plenty of room for more Bruins fans..come to the dark side.....

Really? Your reading skills arent up to par today then. You didnt see this... "If you're gonna hunt, get in shape to hunt." Looks like someone saying that you shouldnt hunt if you are overweight. Insurance costs arent higher due to obesity, it has more to do with the frivolous lawsuit industry, but thats another topic. Looks like you are looking for an arguement..I will not take the bait though. On the other sub-subject, yes lawsuits are a major problem but the healthcare system is seriously effed up right now. There is a list of problems that directly corralate to obesity a mile long and WE pay for a large portion of the bill. I see it every single day where I work, trust me when I say the abuse of the system is sickening. My wife see's alot of morbidly obese people in her profession too, every single day, it is indeed a serious problem.

I don't think I read where any one told anyone to not hunt, and we do live in the most obese country in the world. So many lack common sense nowadays and the rest of us pay for it through higher insurance costs.

Thats one tough little dog!

1. Take a run at him yelling, I heard that works real good. 2. Play a tune on the grunt tube. 3. Start shooting. I kid, I kid.

This is terrible, sorry to read the news Doc,..How about we all go out and shoot some deer in honor of our fallen brother.

I have seen one the last two years in two different spots in Greene County, the Town of Leeds.

Nothing injures Chuck Norris or his beard.....NOTHING! In fact I would be willing to bet Chuck Norris was the one who killed this deer...with mind bullets.

That is one pig of a deer!! Nice!