Ready for Dear Season to start this weekend

[Complete Turf Care]

Sounds like a great trip!!!! We've been enjoying our axis and sika steaks. I don't care if I get a whitetail, I find them to be challenging to cook and have gotten to the point I just make the entire deer into sausages.

It was a great hunt. We just got done dividing up the meat. We have always split the meat up equally between all hunters. This works out well for me, because I like to shoot, but I don't need all the meat I kill. In fact, this year, I gave all of my whitetail to a good friend who takes it to a local grocery store and they make it into sausage to feed the poor and homeless.

I must say I was a bit shocked when I paid the bill at the meat processor. It was just under $2000 for 1751 lbs of meat cut and vacuum packed. Oh well....$200 for each of us for about 175 lbs of meat.

 

[MossRoad]

That's what? $1.14 a pound? Seeing how I just paid about $4.35/pound for beef, I'd take that deal any day. :thumbsup:

 

[WoodChuckDad]

Your bill would have been a lot more than that where I go. Last year they increased it to $80 per deer. I am guessing they took a hit in business because this year it is back down to $70

 

[EddieWalker]

It was a great hunt. We just got done dividing up the meat. We have always split the meat up equally between all hunters. This works out well for me, because I like to shoot, but I don't need all the meat I kill. In fact, this year, I gave all of my whitetail to a good friend who takes it to a local grocery store and they make it into sausage to feed the poor and homeless.

I must say I was a bit shocked when I paid the bill at the meat processor. It was just under $2000 for 1751 lbs of meat cut and vacuum packed. Oh well....$200 for each of us for about 175 lbs of meat.

That's awesome. We've been enjoying the axis a lot. Can't think of a better tasting animal out there!!!!

 

[fordmantpw]

You guys have got me wanting to come to Texas to try some Axis!

For our whitetail, we normally just have the loins cut out and sliced which I later fry. That's my favorite part of the deer. The rest we have ground into burger to use in chili and the like. My son is on a very strict diet and we fix a lot of burgers for him, so we mix half and half venison and beef and it actually makes really good grilled burgers. When we do get steaks, we just have them sliced really thin and cook them on the grille really fast. They are still tender and taste pretty decent.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

It cost $50 bucks a deer here, so it always ends up at less than a dollar a pound...

They cut it any way you want it, then properly wrap it and freeze it. They GUARENTEE you that you get YOUR own deer back too...

GREAT people to work with too...

SR

 

[WoodChuckDad]

I have only caught a fleeting glimpse of this deer in daylight. But if he comes around when I'm out with my bow, I'll be ready.

 

[nybirdman]

Well we finally scored:my son connected with this fine eight pt.this morning.178# dressed.We believe it's the same one we had pictures of earlier.
The other good news;our neighbor had a monster eight point with-in 25 yards yesterday;said it would make this one look small.He was hunting with a bow and had no shot.
The rut in Northern NY is really starting to pick up.Our problem is we have way too many does.
This deer's left eye was recently poked out;probably with a another buck of equal or larger size.

 

[EddieWalker]

That's a nice buck!!! Congratulations.

We are still waiting patiently for them to show up. We've only seen a few does, and that's still hit or miss. The cold front coming through tonight should help with activity.

 

[gwstang]

Nice deer.......we got elk season going right now.........my huntin partner got a nice 5x5 on Friday......got him about 200 yrds off the road.....made it easy to pull him out........he's hanging in the shop right now.....the elk that is!!

OK, I'm a dummy. Just how in the heck do you "pull" an elk out of the woods? It's all I can do to pull a 125-150 lb buck deer out of my property. And, it always goes into the worst possible area to get it out of...:confused2: A couple of years ago, I had shot the second of two 8 points off the backside of my land. First one wasn't too difficult, but up a long hill. I am getting too dang old to be pulling an 8 point up a long fairly steep hill. Huffing and a Puffing for sure. The second one a week later went to the other side of the creek up another much steeper and long hill. Found him dead leaning over against a tree. I had to call my youngest son to come over and get that one. Dang, this getting old is hard. :ashamed: BTW, I was struggling to get it up to a clear area before he got there so it would be a little easier for "us" to drag up hill. Yeah, right. He got there and I showed him where it was and he just reached down and threw it across his shoulder and walked right up a dang hill that I had trouble making it up without any deer on me. :laughing: Well, he does work out lifting weights etc. four or five days a week. I work out lifting coke/cake/banana pudding/tv remote...lol :thumbsup: