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Happy Easter Everybody. The Lord is Risen !

Several of my coworkers have had that. One was a hunting buddy of mine, and he had purchased a used 44 magnum pistol that had a scope on it, about a week before his torn retina. He hadn’t yet shot the pistol and his doctor recommended that he didn’t. He brought it over to my range, and asked me to see if it was at least “on the paper” from 50 yards away. I was a bit intimidated, having never shot a pistol of that caliber, and remembering watching “Dirty Harry”. He also said that the ammo was very expensive. Expecting the worst, I flinched big time on my first shot, a clean miss of the paper target. Surprisingly, the “kick” was quite tame, maybe 1/4 of that of my 18” barrel 12 ga Remington 870, the time that I stupidly put a pistol grip on it, and fired it from the wrist with a magnum slug. My wrist hurt for weeks after that one shot. This Ruger single action .44 magnum felt like a cap gun in comparison. He didn’t want to give me a second expensive hunting load, but I said that I’d pay for it if I missed again, so he reluctantly gave me another. My second shot hit within an inch of the bulls eye. I’m not sure if he ever shot that .44 magnum after his surgery, but I know that he did take at least a couple more deer with his ML and crossbow after that. I don’t see him much anymore because he’s been retired for about 5 years. He hasn’t mentioned any complications from the surgery, but I imagine he’s still a little reluctant to hunt with that .44 magnum.

I just sneaked a couple bites of the pickled heart for a pre dinner snack and it was delicious: It’s not going to be easy saving some for the Easter breakfast at church.

I have never sealed the jars. There are two plastic Tupperware type containers of deer hearts, that my wife pickled yesterday, in my beer fridge right now. I’ll probably start eating it tomorrow. Im going to try my best to save one container for our Easter breakfast at church next Sunday. Some of my buddies want to try it.

They are thawing out now, and should be getting pickled tomorrow. I’ll try and stay away from it, until Good Friday or so.

I am not sure if it would still be good. I’ve never kept it longer than two weeks after pickling. I usually start on it, the day it’s made. It’s seems to peak in flavor, after about two days, and it tastes about the same for up to two weeks. I really like it and it rarely lasts over a week. Speaking of pickled heart and tongue, my wife didn’t get to mine yet. She was away over Valentine’s Day this year. I’m trying to coax her into making it for me over Easter. We still have two deer hearts in the freezer. Most years, she makes it on Valentine’s Day and we take it up to her parents in the Adirondacks the following weekend. They love the pickled heart and I save most of that for them, while I eat mostly the beef tongue (they don’t like that). The in-laws really missed it this year, so my wife sent her mom my grandmas recipe, and she just made some pickled beef heart up there. She said it turned out real good. Good news -my wife just told me to bring the hearts and up from the freezer and she will pickle them for me tomorrow. Thanks for the reminder. I couldn’t find any beef tongues in there, but there are still a couple of beef hearts in the freezer. If these two deer hearts turn out good, maybe I’ll get her to pickle the beef hearts for next time we go up to her parents, on Memorial Day weekend.

I started getting ready last weekend. With the help of my brother in law and nephew, we got the docks in and lined up at the in laws place, up in the Dacks. The lake had finally thawed out the previous week. We had 4 hours daylight and just above freezing temperature and no rain on Saturday. I also got thru the break in procedure on the new Mercury 4 stroke 5 hp outboard, that he picked up to replace his old Johnson 2 stroke 5.5 hp, which I had sieved up last October. It took a lot of pulls to get that new Mercury to fire up the first time, but after that, it started with the first pull every time. To kill time breaking it in, under half throttle for the first hour, I trolled a diving crankbait around the lake several times. Lake trout haven’t been stocked there in over 20 years and I haven’t seen any in 10, but you never know if a holdover survived. No hits though. After that, I tried casting a bucktail jig a little for perch, but no hits there either. They’ve always been few and far between on that lake. Most of the hard spring work is done up there now, so I’ll be able to focus more on fishing and turkey hunting, the next run we visit in May. I plan to start working on my bigger boat at home in WNY next weekend, and maybe have it ready for some shoreline trout trolling out on Lake Ontario, the weekend after that.

I think it’s because about 47 % of the American people are very easily duped. Look at how they gobble up all the fake news on CNN & MSNBC.

My wife and I stopped at a little antique shop on our drive back from her parent’s place today. I picked up a slim single blade backup knife, for the little two bladed Imperial that I usually carry. I have been impressed with the quality and longevity of that one, which I found for $ 1 at a flea market, about 17 years ago. I thought this one was also an Imperial, but closer examination shows that it is made by “The Ideal”. The proprietor of the shop had it marked $ 8, but she took about $ 6 for it, along with a package deal on a few other items including a Taylor pin on compass, a couple pieces of jewelry for my wife, and about 15 dvd’s & vhs’s. “The Ideal” knife doesn’t exhibit quite the quality of workmanship, as my old Inperial, but at least it’s made in USA. I think both companies were/are in Providence RI.

I think it is blown way out of proportion and wouldn’t change a thing for me. I’d still get most of my families protein from “free” venison and wouldn’t be overly careful about using gloves while processing.

That’s a cool looking fish. My brother caught one kind of like it off Miami a couple years ago. They measured it for him, in case he wanted a replica mount, but I don’t think it would have been legal to keep.

Still planning on making it to the Brewer Union Cafe on Sunday March 30, between 1 and 2 pm.

If anyone is interested in a NCNY gtg, I’m heading north east next weekend and plan to be at the Brewer Union Cafe, between 1 and 1:30 pm, on Sunday March 30.

A New Zealand red stag hunt would be cool. Plenty of wild lambs there for camp meat.

Been there done that, cost me the biggest Adirondack buck I ever saw on opening day about 5 years ago.