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I'd need waayyy more than a week. Take a couple days to get settled in. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Haha... people or deer? Shouldn't see any tracks or hear any motors in the wilderness classified portion of boreas ponds. Deer around unless you get too far up into the mountain ranges. Just stay down by the water. It'd be a hell a trip. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

i would think you'd be trying for a 46er patch. i don't know if we will but i have ambitions too. problem with kids. slow progress unless you really set aside time for it.

even if i have little time i'm sure there will be at least a dozen more this summer. anyone care to try it then let me know. lol it's free but don't expect it field dressed.

now that it's established that everyone gets a dick, did someone crawl down the hole yet to see if there's a dead predator? the suspense is killing me.

if we're talking dacks then there's lots of water sources and little roads between elk lake and boreas ponds or ausable lakes (west of Dix range). some areas of the adirondacks just don't have deer. i want to keep my odds decent at least by not hunting something that just isn't there.

you always have to be careful, even on public land. sounds like you weighed it all out and had the though in mind so more power to you.

i've been told by individuals that have cooked them first hand that they are good. when i take them from our ag fields they stink, are crapping themselves, and everything else to make them seem plain unappealing. I've never tried them. local rod and gun club wanted some for the game dinner. i just assume leave them at nearby fox or coyote dens during off season to give them an easy meal and detract them from gobbling up fawns. that's what happened to this one. no longer have animals on farm and reasons to justify legally taking them now. in the fall they get hammered. everything needs to eat and i'll stick to deer.

I haven't had the time to get out but took advantage of an opportunity. Was at parent's house mothers day. saw a chuck and it was on. no pictures. wished i had a Go-Pro though. she was in a hole on a bank near the barn. Has a couple holes under the barn and some always get dug in the side hill of the adjacent hay field. I worked around a long way and then stalked from the top of the bank to her hole from directly behind. got to within 5' or so. scope blurry as heck even at 50 yd parallax setting. managed to get lined up with fur filling the whole reticle. perfect shot through the head. think that's the closest i've ever gotten to one undetected.

looks great! seems like a very clean job. like the office but you've got some wall space to fill. should keep on that.

My parents just brought home a couple pans that someone had abandoned at camp. they're selling the camp so they were cleaning it out. my mom was going to scrap them and then i told her how to refinish them. one of them is an 8" Erie 704A. the other was smaller but i don't know other than that. would be cool if it was an Erie 5" that's hardest to come by. things like that are cooler than any $ value they'd have. the smallest ones probably having the best stories if they could tell them.

i mostly have bolt guns so i can take out the bolt and get close enough. i've done well enough without it, so i don't have a bore sighter.

i have their FAT torque wrench and scope ring alignment and lapping kit. both work well.

temp was just about 225 degrees on the smoker. did flair up briefly after the wood chunks in the tray dried out and lit. i just turned the propane way down. how long was at least a couple hours but that's going to depend on the size of the roast, starting temp of meat, and how off the thermometer is on the smoker. i used manual temp probe for the meat that works well. pull it from smoker, put probe into side through much of the meat. read little over 140 then right away went on a cool plate and got sliced. if you let it set on the plate and wait to slice it, it'll continue cooking and you might end up well done. same with any venison bring it to temp and how done you want. then cool it down or let the heat get out. it's lean and fast cooking. otherwise you bring it up to a lower temp like 130 and let it set. i like the first method better. ...didn't do any 3-2-1 cover method or anything. just left uncovered the whole time but basted with garlic butter just before it went in. end tips were pretty smoky i guess. i thought it was fine but too much for my wife.

let them soak a good 24 hours or more in buttermilk. add seasoning you'd like, be it just pepper and garlic salt or something less simple. toss/coat in bread crumbs, flour, or both if you want. then fry or bake to golden brown. air-fryer nuggets go over well with our daughter who's almost 4.

So I screwed with my wife's butcher block knife set. We got a JA Henckles knife set years ago. I didn't realize what she picked up was a "forever sharp" set of knives with fine serrations. Ran with it anyway and worked alright at first but then wouldn't cut worth a damn with those serrations. tore more than anything. Finally got tired of it sitting there with most of the set never being used. Took each one out to the garage and put them to the belt grinder. rough 80 grit roughed off the serrations real good. didn't have another finer grit belt though to clean up the mess it left, so i took a simple Smith's handheld carbide/ceramic sharpener to clean up the edges. Not sure if that's the right angle. No idea what it is. They still need work but can slice a tomato pretty thin. i'll probably have to get out the actual sharpener and honing solution, despite i'm horrible at sharpening. If any of you come across that stupid micro serration design, look elsewhere.

at least your shooting. i'm still trying to unbury my archery bench.

i'd just quit now while you're ahead. it's been posted what the law is and it's okay within reason to take a photo or two for something like bass and not something like sturgeon. if you switch to offense people will just look for something else. we all break a law a some point. we're not human and not perfect.

growing up i used to think it sucked. my mom didn't eat it but cooked it (bad situation with any food). my dad was stubborn with adding too many "spices" to make it too "spicy". it was always cooked well done. we always processed our own. that said i started learning about cooking when i lived on my own and refining how i process and prepare venison. now i love it. i've even turned others who previously refused to eat it. there's days were i drop the ball and leave it on for too long or something else. i love favor but it's all subjective. like i haven't taken enough liking to lamb yet. i don't know how some can compare venison to beef. they're totally different favors and red meats. we eat venison all year long and burn through a whole chest freezer. that said i have days where i crave a nice beef ribeye like a lunatic. others where i'm thinking about a blackened rainbow trout on the grill. others were i'm glad i have half a pig in the chest freezer. i love venison as another different food.

funny thing is when i went to Dick's to truely find out what the deal was, they had this and other guns like mini-14s. all the guys behind the counter seemed like their grandmother passed. then when you pointed out certain guns like that were still behind the counter they acted like a female when you ask them what they want to eat. lol cool shotgun that caught my eye. Dick's loss in my mind even if just one transaction.

nothing to do with Belo. not trout or walleye. you meant to say musky.

all the cool weather and wetness should be good for growing this year. hopefully we don't hit a drought. got the garden to do this weekend and would like to get a few old plots back to actually that. also thinking about turning half the fallow field into cover. will have to pick up some oats to throw in with it though. to keep weeds at bay. just time that's a problem as always.

not an AR so it's a totally irrelevant 30-06 that's not the kind your pappy used in the war. .....yea i really want a 6.5 creedmoor AR.

you wish my friends were as cool as your friends. sounds like i need better friends that'll move targets for me and retrieve arrows.

doing garlic this year in october. no reason not to. i buy it.