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Like to, can't. Not legal for consumption in the US. If it was legal to eat them here, I would want to try a little that was prepared by an experienced chef, before committing to a large quantity purchase. I imagine that, much like beef, a younger animal would taste the best. Also, like with any red meat, proper aging of the carcass prior to freezing, to get past rigor mortis, is likely very important.

Happy Easter everyone.

That looks like a half ton standard cab Chevy, of a slightly older vintage than my 3/4 ton, 2000, with 6 liter V8. I get 14 mpg normally, and about 12 with a camper on and pulling a 17.5 ft aluminum boat. I will guess that rig will get you about 17 mpg.

Welcome to NY, a meat hunters paradise. I have been to most of the lower 48, and there is no state where I would rather live than NY. How long were you able to stick it out in Florida ? Most of my trips down there was in February or March, which was fine, but I am lucky the heat and humidity didn't kill me during the week we spent in Disney world in September. Ruffed grouse are about the only bird that I really like to eat, but it has been a few years since I have been blessed with one. They seem to be making a bit of a comeback up in St Lawrence county. I saw a few more up there while deer hunting last year than the year prior. The whitetail deer are my favorite to eat, and the only wild game I have had that was a smidge better was moose. You will find that they are about twice as big on average in NY, as they are in Florida. You got to look real hard to find any wild hogs in NY, and bugs and snakes also dont do as well up here. I never did so hot fresh water fishing in Forida, but we are blessed with many world class fisheries here in NY. The smallmouth is my favorite and I dont think there is another state that rivals NY, when it comes to those.

Oddly enough, she did check my blood pressure this week, and it was in the normal range. Not sure what she would have measured had she checked it when I got home early that Saturday morning.

I had my first sea oysters in a long time on that recent adventure. The bar-maids, on taco Tuesday and Thursday, were the other "sirens". I could almost swear they were the same ones I remembered from my last trips out there, more than 10 years ago. The odd thing was, they looked like they had not aged a day.

,i I tried to be as helpful as I could to the young lady. She was very friendly, and she was from Boston originally. She had spent most of her life in Alaska, and had only been in southern CA for a short while. She didn't say what she was doing in MO. Other than being very warm to the touch, she was extremely healthy looking. She had at least 3 big rings on her right hand, and I didn't notice the left. Her forearms were tattooed in leaf patterns and cursive writing on her upper back. I usually sleep on the planes, but I did not catch a wink on that flight. That whole trip was like "the Odysey", complete with the sirens.

Several orders of magnitude more than that combined total are snuffed out in the US each year by abortion, before they get out of the womb. That rate is more than double for blacks than it is for whites. Thankfully, Trump was able to do something about that by seating 3 pro life Supreme Court Justices during his 4 years. Obama only got 2 pro abortion justices in during his 8 years, and let's hope Joe don't get any in any while he is up.

That was one flight that I definitely will not soon forget.

I was going to use new pt 8 ft 4 x 4's for front legs on my two new deer platforms, but they were almost $ 20 each at home depot. I went with the $ 5.00 pt 8 ft landscape timbers instead. I had an hour to kill while my daughter was at field hockey practice, so I sorted thru 2 skids and found 4 nice thick, straight, knot-free ones. The tags say "for landscaping use only". We will have to see about that. I will use the $60 I saved on a few boxes of Hornady 2-3/4" 12 ga slugs, or 3 tank fills of gas for my suv.

I would go with early September wheat/soybean/white clover planting in that scenerio. Keep the areas mowed until mid summer. Some folks have reported success without tillage, by just spraying gly in late summer and broadcasting seed into the browned out weeds before a rain. I prefer to keep my venison as "organic" as possible, so I skip the spray and roll the sod over with a plow in mid summer. After it dries up a bit, I work it a few times with a disk. A rototiller will accomplish the same thing if rocks are not an issue. When its time to plant, broadcast the wheat and soybeans. over the tilled soil, then cultipack. After that, broadcast the clover and then go over it again with a cultipacker. A lawn roller makes an ok substitute for a cultipacker. Larger seed (wheat and soybeans) do better a little deeper in the soil and with this method, they are pushed further down, while the clover likes it shallow. Since "climate change", we have been getting later and later fall frosts, so those emerging soybeans will usually provide maximum attraction for deer well into October. Later, the first fall thru winter, the wheat will keep up the attraction. Mow that wheat off in the late spring of the following year, and you should find a nice plots of clover (if your soil ph is ok). Wheat will do ok in acidic soil. The white clover can usually be maintained for several seasons, with just a few mowings a year for maintenence. With spring clover plantings, you are asking for a loosing battle with weeds.

I would be happy if the northern zone got 2 weeks to match the southern zone. That would open up another weekend up there. NYB must have more influence in that region.

I picked up a 34 mpg 4 cyl, Chevy equinox last year as my daily driver, so high gas prices dont hurt me that bad. It is the fwd version, cost $1400 less than the awd version and gets 2 more mpg. My old 14 mpg Chevy Silverado 3/4 ton pickup will likely spend most of its time in the barn until the Republicans take over again in 4 years.

I always wanted to try horse, but you got to go to Canada for that, and the border is still closed.

The lack of crowds is the best part. There is some good in the pandemic after all. Taco Tuesdays and Thursdays at South Beach bar and grill, and farmers market Wednesdays at Hodad's in Ocean Beach is usually jammed shoulder to shoulder.

My wife flew to Cancun for a week, and our 2 girls to Miami for a week this winter, all for "pleasure". They had to do the 2 week quarantine when they got back, and had to be tested before their return fight and after they got back. I was feeling a little left out, not getting any time in the sun myself. I was thankful for the chance to squeeze in about a half a day of "pleasure" in the sun on my recent 5 day "essential" trip. I finished the job a day early. The boss wanted me to try and catch an earlier flight home. Wouldn't you know it, there was not any seats left for that Thursday flight. What was a guy to do ? I was even more thankful to evade all the test / quarantine bs.

I hadn't flown since Feb 2020, but I had (4) flights 2 weeks ago, cross-country, and they were mostly pretty good. The last leg, from Denver to Buffalo was a bit uncomfortable on the decent, probably because it was an older plane without good pressure control. There was plenty of room however, with just 50 passengers on the 737. Parking and getting thru security was a breeze, and service at all the airport eateries was great, thanks to lack of crowds. Of the four flights, only the first leg home, from SanDiego to Denver, was remotely crowded with about 30 open seats. I had A2 boarding position on both return legs. I thought there would be an open middle seat next to me in the 3rd row, but as they were getting ready to pull away from the gate, there was a commotion up front. They opened the door, and a young woman boarded. She looked to be about 20 years old, and took the middle seat. She asked me if it "felt hot in here", and she adjusted the overhead airflow. I aimed my air nozzle at her also, and she said thanks. She was very scared on takeoff, covering her eyes with a bright pink neck pillow. She relaxed once we got to altitude and fell asleep, leaning against me. It was a short flight and she woke up about half way thru. She complained about being hot again. She removed her white half-shirt (she had a tan sports bra on under that). That cooled her down, and she fell asleep leaning against me again. Her skin felt very warm against mine. She slept soundly until we touched down in Denver. She was a bit disoriented and had some trouble locating her shirt. When we got into the airport, I helped her find her gate for her St Louis flight. There were about a dozen individuals at a table, all wearing desert camouflage, near the exit at the Buffalo airport. They handed all the arriving passengers a clipboard with a NY state travellers form. I filed out the "essential" section on the back, and wrote down my home phone number. No one has contacted me or left a message on my machine and it has been 2 weeks today. I returned to work in WNY, the Monday after my Friday return. Hopefully, our nation is just a little safer, as a result of my "essential" trip to the west coast.

I think some of the reloaders are also realizing that they should have stocked up on more factory ammo, since reloading supplies are now getting hard to find. I think this will mostly blow over by mid summer and ammo (for common centerfire chamberings), will be plentiful again and about 25 % more expensive than it was in 2018. Rimfire will take a bit longer to settle out (up to 4 years), because no manufacturers are willing to put up the capital needed to ramp up that production.

I should be ok for at least the next 4 years with deer ammo. I have been doing most of my target practice with a bb gun, since long before the current crisis anyhow. My crossbows and ML's most likely take on a bit more of the meat gathering load. During gun season, I will probably alter some hunt plans to suit the guns that I have plenty of ammo for. I am in good shape with 16 ga sluggers and it has been a couple years since I killed a deer with grandpas old Ithaca 37 deerslayer. That might be my opening day gun this year. For small game, I will stretch my current .22 rimfire supply, by switching to a club for coons trapped in dog-proofs, and a pellet gun for squirrel hunting. I will still need the .22 with the box traps. I started releasing possums caught in those last year, so they could eat ticks. Prior to that, I had been dispatching them with 2 shots (one between the eyes and a second thru the lungs). One between the eyes always gets the job done with coons. I have buckets of old shotgun shells, some with worn plastic and paper cases. That stuff works wonderful for dispatching skunks in box traps, from about 10 yards upwind. None has ever sprayed after taking a 12 or 16 ga load of any shot size, to the head.

As the prior poster indicated, it is definitely worth it if you plan on moving out of state when you retire.

It is funny that this comes up today. Yesterday, in the late afternoon, I was working on equipment inside my barn. Right before sunset, looking thru an open man door in back, I saw what looked like an escaped cow. Its head was down, feeding in my winter wheat plot, about 200 yards out back. There was an open overhead door behind me, so I suppose I was silhouetted pretty good, as I tried to stalk in for a closer look. The instant I made a slow move closer, with my eyes locked on it, the white flag went up and the "cow" bolted into the cover behind. I am guessing that it was an older buck, that had dropped horns. I can't imagine a doe with a body of that size. I will go out there after dinner, and check out the tracks in the mud.

Has the littering gotten worse since the signs went up ? A posted sign had some similarities to a gun control law. It will stop law abiding folks but not hoodlums. Basically, just a waste of your time.

Sorry to hear about that. I worry about that sometimes and think about canning some meat, but then I would worry about the jars not sealing. My old basement freezer is 41 years old and probably on borrowed time. I check it every weekday morning, when I am home. A new freezer would surely save me some money on electricity, but I dont think they make them as durable as they used to. My old one had been submerged twice in floods. I just unplugged it, let it dry out, and it continued to chug along just like it always did.

Good for you cupcake.

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