2022 Muzzleloader harvest thread

wolc123 · January 1, 2022

This bb (sorry FSW) came out 2 minutes early tonight (4:18), and will soon be reunited with his twin brother (taken during the early antlerless gun season in September), on the third shelf of the freezer.

33-1/4” chest girth.

Edited January 1, 2022 by wolc123

wolc123 · September 29, 2022

I decided to tote my ML for the early September antlerless gun season this year. My target doe’s luck ran out on Tuesday the 13th, when I ambushed her from behind a patch of poison ivy, on her way to dinner in my 2 acre rr corn plot.

Her prior year’s fawn came by first, prompting me to shoulder my T/C Omega 50 cal, so that I could deliver a quick, broadside, 15-yard heart shot, when she popped out from behind the cover. She spent the next (4) days in my deer fridge, and I stayed up till Midnight processing her on Saturday night.

She must have lost this year’s fawn(s) to coyotes, because she didn’t have any milk in her, and lots of fat. It took me a lot of extra time, trimming as much of that out of the meat as I could, before grinding.

Her tenderloins were very good and much more tender than those from the older doe that I killed last year in the NZ early ML season. I am guessing that she was 3.4 years old. Her burger is spectacular. My wife made meat sauce for spaghetti squash from the 1st of (17) quart-sized zip-lock bags of that last week.

This doe was #1 on my hit-list, because she did considerable damage to my sweetcorn this year, taking out much of the early plantings, soon after it sprouted. She also had the best developed back straps that I ever seen on a doe.