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    Deer mineral test

    in Deer Hunting

    Posted

    On 8/21/2020 at 6:38 AM, Kmartinson said:

    Is this a mostly ny website? We dont need no stinking mineral!!! Hunting deer is a year round activity for me. I dont need to feed or entice the deer to give them the old slock. Scout, scout, scout til tour boots wear out

     

    I think you missed the point

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    Mia Anstine

    in General Hunting

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    This week we had Mia on the show. She has been featured on the cover of Field & Stream magazine, tv, radio, and about everything else between. She is an advocate for the outdoors and our 2nd amendment. A guide, firearms and archery instructor, commentator, public speaker and much more. We touch on everything from Uncle Ted, to NRA red flag laws, Elk hunting, and more

     

     

    Digging up deer head-Euro mount and aging deer by teeth

    in General Hunting

    Posted · Edited by BuckNutts

    6 hours ago, dbHunterNY said:

    i've been trying different ways. I've "boiled" some different ways and i've got an 8 pointer of mine partially buried under a tote. works best no matter the method, if you cut as much of it off as possible.

    for the jawbone aging there's a bit more to it than what he said. if you take it for how he presented it and nothing more then you're going to have mixed results. i'd be on the fence with that jawbone if that deer was 2.5 or 3.5 yrs old. it's georgia though and not here. i've seen deviations in wear of the dentine which is why you have to look at other stuff too. also why people shoot down the method.

    It is the method game wardens use at check stations to age deer for records of harvest. Its pretty foolproof up to about 3.5. As mentioned, fawns will have less than 6 teeth. A 1.5 yr old will have a temporary premolar and at 2.5 they will have a permanent premolar. 

     

    Tooth ware, in my opinion can be misleading. I think a deer that lives in a habitat with a lot of sandy, or rocky soils will show more tooth ware sooner

    Digging up deer head-Euro mount and aging deer by teeth

    in General Hunting

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    21 hours ago, nyslowhand said:

    Understand wanting to do a Euro skull mount, but doing it via the grave-robber method is way beyond my queasiness factor.

    Am I missing something? When the guy removes the bucket from over the mummified skull, isn't the end of one main beam missing? Unlike the buck's rack as shown when shot or prepared.... Hummm?

    Bad camera angle. It was fully intact, with nothing gross about it

    Digging up deer head-Euro mount and aging deer by teeth

    in General Hunting

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    6 hours ago, johnplav said:

    Yea... boiling doesnt take that long, and you have more control.  As gross as it is scooping cooked brain out of the skull base... dealing with a rotten decaying head seems worse. 

    That's why I didn't want to boil. If you leave it in the ground long enough, the bugs will clean it to the bone. Many people like to dig it up a month or so later and its still cold, so the bugs haven't really gotten to work yet. I cant imagine slurrying up some brains and then digging them out lol 

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