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Bone-in strip that was on sale. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I'm not going to be able to get mornings off. Work is crazy. Hoping for weekend I guess. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

tenderloins come out before anything happens. i hang it regardless of when i cut it up with hind quarters up. meat drains out of the best cuts that way and any heat in the body cavity draws out faster. if i know for sure it'll be under 40 degrees and i'm busy i'll let it hang with the hide on so i don't have to trim dried up wasted outer meat. otherwise it gets boned out right away. i bone out the carcass and put the meat into totes and put that in the fridge. it drains more. i either routinely empty a tote/container or preferably use as many "cooling racks" as i can to hold the meat off the bottom of the totes/containers and out of the drained liquid. can get them from restaurant supply stores but usually all i can find is some combo of smaller ones to fit within most meat totes i get. i'll let meat age that way for 2 weeks or so, whole time at temps always below 40 degrees. when i finally package it up it gets vac sealed in heavy mil bags and put into the freezer. any likely micro bad stuff that's common to game is killed then.

meh...more surface area on pavement now. just call them your summer tires while you wait.

my dad bought and sold a house to get his boat. might as well add fresh rear tires on the truck to haul it around.

i don't think bucks are more smart than doe. buck tag harder of the two to fill around here regardless of standards. my standards are shooting an adult doe or a middle aged buck and there's more 3.5+ yr old doe than buck. bucks receive more hunting pressure than doe. how many times have you passed a doe versus a buck? even a young buck isn't much less smart compared to an older buck. most likely the older buck has personal behavior that prefers day to day activity to coincidentally avoid danger and in some cases it knows what danger could be. how often has a young buck picked out your ground blind or you up in a tree but then seemed not to care? they were still smart and at least astute enough to know something is out of place. this last characteristic i've known old matriarch doe to use against a lot of hunters, myself included. plus you've tipped your cards over and over to her in the past. how often do you watch the same doe family group? old doe can be the hardest to kill if they decide you're after them.

you're hunting if the situation arises that if game at that distance were to see you, smell you, or sense your presence they'd care enough to get away. by the original poster's standards half the time i'm a target shooter.

so i do it for the experiences had, sounds management/conservation of a resource, and a bunch of other personal reasons. last on the list is solely to obtain meat and antlers. i just want to know how i stand with that 28% or 72% for meat or antlers. last i checked it adds up to 100% so i'm a little confused.

at my house i have a shed that was already there set on wooden beams. if i was going that big i'd do a concrete slab on grade. if you want to cut cost you could set it on leveled sauna tube concrete footings. they'd last forever compared to wood underneath. i wouldn't make them that deep to they're manageable if you want to move or get rid of it in the future. you're just using them for a surface and maybe to bolt it down in event of high winds if you have them.

Nothing tonight but last night I did a smoked venison roast. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Another one for the Lone Wolf Alpha... it adjusts level for both platform and seat. light for it's size. i've never had it make any noise. cast platform and design is no slip and doesn't hold any ice or weather. platform is large with lots of room and then you lift the seat that stays put making the platform huge (30"x19.5"). the straps work alright but i much prefer to use ratchet straps and crank it right down. you just can't get the stock pull tight straps tight enough. also i've got some awesome sets that use a pretty big tree.

i'm not much of a wild herb and plant guy. i'm just a simple guy so all can think of is that movie "Into the Wild" where the kid is doing alright but ends up eating wrong plant that looks very similar based on his book/manual. it's not though and he gets poisoned and dies. i all honesty i haven't heard or seen of any growing around here.

i've gotten pass-thru on every deer i've shot with them, gnarly bucks to 100 lb doe. different arrow weights too, but that's with compounds over 300 fps IBO. trad bows are a bit different. i wouldn't use anything but a cut on contact head either.

with small amp-hour batteries like that they can drain fairly easily. the coil on the wheeler should keep it charged but i like to keep it hooked up to a float charger on batteries when something's not being used often. not just trickle charger that is always on unless you unplug it. float chargers turn on/off automatically when battery if fully charged or not. even expensive ones pay for themselves after a handful of years. it makes that expensive battery last a bit longer.

i don't know about moderate sized but i was thinking about using the original Rage titanium heads i still have going. i think they're 2" cut. 2 blades and the tip is cut on contact with a definite sharp point compared to the original regular Rages. i was afraid the post this though. might make some all bothered and derail the whole thread.

it'd be cool to take a turkey with a recurve.

true story i had composted my leaves and brush in the usual pile one summer. also add in ash from bonfires we have. well one time it rained and a next day i tossed it in there. must have been just enough heat left in a little spot of it that it eventually lit the whole thing up, leaves and all. haha i put it out after i managed to casually mosey on over with the wife already bothered and worried. that was that. might as well make a show like SOA. I'm such an outlaw.

i vaguely remember Empirehunting.com as a neighboring property hunter posted his prized 120+" buck up there. I had a ton of encounters always with the intent of getting others on the deer but they couldn't seal the deal. i wasn't ever a member though. i know quite a few John recruited from the Realtree forums, including myself. They've gotten pretty slow, mostly i feel due to issues with hosting and software. had all kinds of problems with it.

I thought about it. just not what i wanted and i've got other stuff going on right now. it's a nice scope. most people do cheap out on glass making it hard.

i was always going to find a place near my parent's vacation home down in Florida. those and gator.

i'm kinda curious now. i only knew the usual of no turning them in for cash, check, or credit.

i'd opt for the henry. i'm not a fan of the 22mag vs one of the 17's. i've never heard of being limited with what you can purchase with a gift card. little different but i've walked into a Cabelas and used entirely Cabelas bucks to purchase a scoped muzzleloader.

wait we were talking about you??? i assumed you weren't just handing over sissy truck keys to a youth. thought you'd be naturally coming along to facilitate them getting here. no worries i might feel left out but you can rock the spinner beanie in the harvest photo too. maybe Rob can still send me that gawdy thanksgiving turkey vest he posted awhile back. that'd be a photo.

it's funny i've got at least 3 venison "cook books" given to me. many of the recipes are pretty lack luster. i've come across many thought and have some of my own i've been thinking about writing down for a book of my own that can be stuffed in my kitchen cabinets somewhere. i have this thing for sawing through bone. always seems messy with bone dust all over the meat. all my meat i process gets boned out.

sounds fun.