Ok who’s playing around ...

[moog5050]

Phew, I made the cut.  Hunting NYs the bachelorette!

[eaglemountainman]

We're going for drinks and dancing next Friday.

[Nytracker]

23 minutes ago, NYBowhunter said:

She sure gets around, sent me a message as well. Quite the tramp.

Truth be known it was over when she said she knows pygmy....

[grampy]

28 minutes ago, Dinsdale said:

Into big post counts?

Maybe thinks that means something else?

Could be she thinks I'm active in other ways???? IDK??? Anyways..... no contact for me......sigh......

[WNYTRPR]

She told me she only messaged the guys who actually scored on the harvest thread ...Something about looking for a real man ??

[Robhuntandfish]

7 minutes ago, Nytracker said:

Truth be known it was over when she said she knows pygmy....

That narrows down 95% of the women in the southern tier......

[wolc123]

5 minutes ago, WNYTRPR said:

She told me she only messaged the guys who actually scored on the harvest thread ...Something about looking for a real man ??

Apparently, she don’t care too much how big they are, since she hit me.  If she were super selective, she would hold out for the likes of fsw. 

Edited January 22, 2022 by wolc123

[WNYTRPR]

8 minutes ago, wolc123 said:

Apparently, she don’t care too much how big they are, since she hit me.  If she were super selective, she would hold out for the likes of fsw. 

No,all his attention would go towards antlers and not her .She knows better

[Kmartinson]

O would guess that it was a information mining bot...

[Versatile_Hunter]

2 hours ago, Robhuntandfish said:

I will forward her your number. Your welcome.  

lol!!  You asked for its number?

[Robhuntandfish]

8 minutes ago, Versatile_Hunter said:

lol!!  You asked for its number?

No. I sent his.  PM me yours and I can forward that too. 

Edited January 22, 2022 by Robhuntandfish

[rob-c]

Oh the off season on hunting ny, almost as much fun as live from the woods..

[crappyice]

And here I thought I was special


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[E J]

Still nothing here. I was holding out hope.

[grampy]

36 minutes ago, E J said:

Still nothing here. I was holding out hope.

Are you a stinky, old, fat, balding guy too???

[Robhuntandfish]

22 minutes ago, grampy said:

Are you a stinky, old, fat, balding guy too???

The line must be real tight cause I am 3 out of 4 of those 

Edited January 22, 2022 by Robhuntandfish

[E J]

4 hours ago, grampy said:

Are you a stinky, old, fat, balding guy too???

Depends on who you ask! My kids would say yes to all those categories. 

[dmandoes]

7 hours ago, WNYTRPR said:

No,all his attention would go towards antlers and not her .She knows better

FSW would be all over that rack.

[WNYTRPR]

11 minutes ago, dmandoes said:

FSW would be all over that rack.

He is a rack collector after all ..

[Chef]

Guys it’s Biz he just wants to let you all know how he really feels


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Just Lucky]

20 hours ago, WNYTRPR said:

No,all his attention would go towards antlers and not her .She knows better

All about the pursuit of the smartest animal in the woods, a mature Buck.

[wolc123]

3 minutes ago, Just Lucky said:

All about the pursuit of the smartest animal in the woods, a mature Buck.

I have a harder time with mature does, than mature bucks, so I would rate them as “smarter” by a long shot. Killing a mature buck just comes down to being in the right place at the right time and sometimes passing up on a small one first.  Killing a mature doe, takes a lot more hard work and knowhow, at least for me.  
 
My harvest numbers back that up.  If we consider “mature” as 2.5 years, then I have killed (6) mature bucks and (3) mature does over the last (6) years, along with (1) 1.5 year old buck and (1) 1.5 year old doe.  (4) of those older bucks were at least 3.5 years old, as were (2) of the does.  

Mature bucks may be “smart”, for 50 weeks of the year, but those other 2 weeks are very often their undoing.  Sorry, I only got a picture of one of those older does on my phone, but I do have all of the bucks:

I am thankful that I don’t have what it takes to consistently kill older does, and that the old bucks are way easier for me to kill.  Those bucks are a lot easier for me to process.  I hate spending all that extra time that it takes me to trim out the doe fat, almost as much as I hate it sticking to the roof of my mouth, when I butcher and eat them.  
 

 

 

[crappyice]

I have a harder time with mature does, than mature bucks, so I would rate them as “smarter” by a long shot. Killing a mature buck just comes down to being in the right place at the right time and sometimes passing up on a small one first.  Killing a mature doe, takes a lot more hard work and knowhow, at least for me.  
 
My harvest numbers back that up.  If we consider “mature” as 2.5 years, then I have killed (6) mature bucks and (3) mature does over the last (6) years, along with (1) 1.5 year old buck and (1) 1.5 year old doe.  (4) of those older bucks were at least 3.5 years old, as were (2) of the does.  

Mature bucks may be “smart”, for 50 weeks of the year, but those other 2 weeks are very often their undoing.  Sorry, I only got a picture of one of those older does on my phone, but I do have all of the bucks:

I am thankful that I don’t have what it takes to consistently kill older does, and that the old bucks are way easier for me to kill.  Those bucks are a lot easier for me to process.  I hate spending all that extra time that it takes me to trim out the doe fat, almost as much as I hate it sticking to the roof of my mouth, when I butcher and eat them.  
 
 
 

Check out the fat on this girl shot on Dec 14 this year.


And while the fat is significant, it peels out super quick and doesn’t seem to make the processing longer or more challenging-if anything your edible yield may decrease post-chest girth measurement, no?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[luberhill]

19 minutes ago, crappyice said:

Check out the fat on this girl shot on Dec 14 this year.


And while the fat is significant, it peels out super quick and doesn’t seem to make the processing longer or more challenging-if anything your edible yield may decrease post-chest girth measurement, no?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This one had fat like that too , you’re right , it peels off easy

[wolc123]

36 minutes ago, crappyice said:

Check out the fat on this girl shot on Dec 14 this year.


And while the fat is significant, it peels out super quick and doesn’t seem to make the processing longer or more challenging-if anything your edible yield may decrease post-chest girth measurement, no?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It takes me about 1.25 times as long to process a doe compared to a buck.  No big deal for one or two, but that adds up with more.  The outer stuff ain’t so bad to trim, and I usually knock that off on “skinning day”.  I final process the following day, and that is where the extra time really hurts.  
 

That extra fat is not just on the outside, but also within and in between the interior muscle groups.  If I leave too much of that in, it adversely effects the quality of the grind (“roof of mouth sticking”).  I can just drop the buck chunks into the grinder, with very little extra fat trimming.  
 

This is simply the way that God designed the beast.  Does pile on fat and get “smarter” thru the rut, while bucks loose the fat and get dumber.  It is no coincidence.  That is how the species survives and flourishes.

very little fat trimming needed on this 42-1/2” chest girth buck from last year:

Edited January 23, 2022 by wolc123