CuseHunter

wanna be bow hunters ???? says the guy who thinks a hunt is over after having someone in his sector. Us wannabes would have adapted and overcome the situation and made the best of it. Do you "wanna be" the bow hunters we are? *directed toward rob

two words... Lights out. It's a choke hold from behind, using your forearm and bicep to go around the neck of the person you are choking. It cuts off circulation of blood going to the head and before you know it you are on the floor.

I'm quite positive the slowest drivers all choose to piss me off by being in the left lane, and the ones who decide to go the limit on the highway love being in the middle even though the right lane is clear... Deep breath... Deep breath.

I agree, I have a great GPA and and on route to fulfill my goals in college/degree plan. Yet this season I definitely spent a little too much time in the woods, taking away too much time for academics. I stopped hunting though this week to focus all my day on doing work.

welcome to the forum

Seems like you are being already pointed in the right direction. As to general safety, not one safety precaution/handing procedure can be overlooked. It takes just one or a series of multiple "mishaps" to turn into serious consequence. Through the Army there is three things that you must ALWAYS pay attention to. That is 1)trigger finger: make sure that you alway keep you finger not only off the trigger, but away from the trigger guard so you never "accidentally" hit it. 2)muzzle awareness: never point your firearm at anything you don't intent to shoot at. This includes becoming complacent and leaning the rifle against your body, you'd never think someone would use the end of their barrel as a place to rest their head, but complacency happens and there are graves made because of this. 3)safety: make sure your firearm is always on "safe" for obvious reasons. I am frequently checking this especially in the woods as a twig or you might just knock it off safe on accident. Best of luck and I hope you find a place to go and eventually end up being able to hunt!

Simple, throwing knife :imout:

The guys I hunt with used to keep the backstraps and loin as steaks and everything else was grinds. I am now learning how much more good steak meat is on the deer as I butcher myself. I looked up a recipe for a garlic roast venison, sounded great using the football. Definitely on my "to-cook" list.

appreciate it, I figured either bottom or top steaks from the hind 1/4 would work great as they are already perfectly shaped/thickness. Just really don't know if making jerky from it would be utilizing "too good of meat" as they are awesome cuts to cook in a pan. Cutting the football into strips to dehydrate evenly would definitely be hard to do I'd think.

Another question for you guys. I normally make jerky out of grinds but want to try and marinade some whole meat and slice it then make jerky this year that way. What cuts/part of the deer would you recommend to use. I would hate to waste prime steak (backstraps) for jerky. I saved lots of the hind steaks whole so I can decide later how to eat them. Any of you use the "football" for jerky? Seems like nasty meat with all the silver skin running between each layer but might be fine to use as jerky

Thanks for the input. I decided on cutting it out too. It looks weird with a dime size hole in the slab. Still will eat real good!

After cutting up my doe this week, I can tell you that the damage the hornady BTSP really was amazing. It didn't hold shape well as there is just channels of fragments all over the cavity. I'll be ordering a box of the Barnes TSX tipped in 168gr and shoot the box of nearly full fusions and see if they group any better than when I first bought the rifle.

I cut up my own deer that I harvest, and am getting pretty efficient especially after shadowing a butcher for a week. I find that I trim my steaks more than probably 99% of other people. I just like to have no silver skin or fat on my meat. With that said, on the hind legs, I forget the cut name, it's either the bottom or top steak. It's a flat steak cut, roughly 2.5" thick, 5" wide, 10" long. There is 2 tube-like structures that run through the cut. I would guess it's the femoral artery and vein. Do you leave it in the cut or trim it out? It just seems like it would be all grizzly after being cooked.

yeah, I dread buying top shelf priced bullets but then again, I'm not a range going guy. I shoot good and enjoy the range but don't enjoy the tab it leaves on my credit card. I shoot only like twice a year with my guns at the range to check the zero. And get my real practice in when I get paid to shoot guns for the army.

let me check to see what I got left. I started out with a bunch, after giving some to friends and getting two myself I might have an extra 7j laying around.

I'm sick of having to choose hunting over school, then regretting that decision after not bagging a deer when I do, especially with finals week coming up :x

Well look on the bright side, you had two people pushing for you. If they stayed around close to you, I would have just done some spot n stalk or found a new spot to sit it out. Life is 1% what happens to yo hand 99% how you react to it. You have to make the best of the situation present. Just my $.02

Nice looking deer there you got. Hopefully during ML he comes out to play in the day.

I just looked down in my cabinet. I actually ended up buying and trying out last year the Remington corelokts and the federal fusions (180gr) and they both did not group very well out of my rifle. I think I'll try the whitetail hornady round, and also grab a box of some kind of Winchester round. I don't want to try and test a super expensive round like nosler. I can't see myself dropping 40+ dollars on a box of ammo.

appreciate the insight. My buddy uses a h&r single shot .308 and was unlucky enough to have two misfires with the pin striking the ammo during hunting too, seriously a hindrance when shooting a single shot. We looked at the Ammo, and the primers were seriously low seated in all of the bullets. Not the issue with my hornady's. I'll just have to hope my set up works when it needs to this week and then after the season play around. Who knows I might treat myself to the new Weatherby vanguard S2 in .270 or .300WSM

I wish I could have found the spend shell but in the heat of the moment, I was more concerned .with tracking down the doe that ran off. I looked in the snow around me for like 1 minute and couldn't find where it fell as I was in 8 inch deep snow. I did go back to camp though and take apart the bolt and cleaned it hoping maybe the firing pin was slowed down and caused the misfire due to it being extremely cold (0 degrees) and the rem oil with Teflon I use on the exterior of the bolt could have seeped into the firing pin area and slowed down the pin due to low temps/ gobing up

that's the truth... I can say I know some too who avoid it and actually laugh at the fact so many people on here just butch at each other and are master investigators at making conclusions off of no hard facts.

I like my covert mp6. Great battery life which is a huge category for me, nothing worse then pulling a camera that died after a week or two.

if your asking me, I hunt in truxton

Too long winded for me to read it all. What I did read though all about passing deer that don't fit your criteria. Personally I hunt because I enjoy it and I like to eat venison. I'll shoot anything legal because I feel accomplished and like meat in the freezer. I passed so many 5pt'ers and smaller bucks during archery because I got "reeled" into the trophy hunter mindset. I quickly realized that eating tag soup for me is just not pleasurable and I'd rather take a 4pter.