Deer Hunting!!

[Sundance]

Yee Haaa. Firearms deer season opens here in
2 hours (12 noon Friday). Dusted off the .270
Remington and I'm ready to rock.

Fresh venison on the stove tonight!!

[Jeffzhear]

Good luck with that! Regular season here doesn't open for a few weeks yet.

[Zane]

Good luck. Did you get enough snow to track if needed? We still have a couple 7 days,15hrs and a few seconds but who's counting?

[alpha6]

Took a doe today...nice and big I figure about 250 lbs dressed out. :thumbsup:

Thems Colorado mule deer. Still looking for my elk. Come to papa. :shhhh:

[iddee]

So far, I have been given two whole deer, two hind legs, and all four legs from deer taken during bow season. I watched a doe eating from by bait station this afternoon. Gun season starts a week from tomorrow.

[JordanM]

One week left here to. Who needs snow to track when you drop them where they stand.

[Hambone]

Took a doe today...nice and big I figure about 250 lbs dressed out. :thumbsup:

That is big! Our whitetale bucks here in n/w Texas max out at 125-150. Not until you get closer to God's county. Lubbock. Then we get into Mule's.

Our gun season opened last weekend. 80+ degs. Hot!!!:( No movement!!!:( But the call I got tonight was pre-rut has started. And I can't go this weekend. But next weekend I will be there, and it should be good huntin. :D

[Orion]

I'm Jealous. Our deer season is over but at least I still have year round pig hunting. I should be heading out next week. :)

Orion

[Zane]

Alpha, congrats and thank you for removing one more deer off the road for me!!! I'll be driving though in a few weeks and the less deer in the middle of the road the better!!! Did you get much snow yet? Are them elk moving down? come on elk come to papa's!!!
Deer season starts next weekend here. Had 4 in the yard this am.

[JPK]

Took a doe today...nice and big I figure about 250 lbs dressed out. :thumbsup:

Thems Colorado mule deer. Still looking for my elk. Come to papa. :shhhh:

You sure that wasn't a Cow? 250lbs :eek:

You know the GOB expression...."If its Brown...its goin' Down"

[Bizzybee]

:D JP

I just watched a six pointer walk across the field out back here not five minutes ago. If I didn't need to get up from here and make some biscuits and gravy I might have plugged that dude! :)

[peggjam]

Nov 15th, that be the day. Then another week before bear opens:(. We worked around the barn setting up the skinning racks and the cutting room, so we're about as ready as it gets.:) Also sighted in the new 30-30 I picked up Friday..Can't wait:waiting:.

[Ben Brewcat]

My tag starts Wednesday! Took the rest of the week off work and can't wait to spend some time still-hunting in the mountains.

[Sundance]

Took a nice whitetail doe and a 6x6 buck in the first
30 minutes. The doe weighed out at 130# dressed
which is decent for here. The buck was 205#.

2 more tags left for next weekend...........:thumbsup:

[Ben Brewcat]

DOOD! I wanna hunt where Bruce hunts! And where you can harvest FOUR deer!

[Sundance]

DOOD! I wanna hunt where Bruce hunts! And where you can harvest FOUR deer!

If you buy 10 tags ($20) you can harvest 10, no limit
until the sections tags are gone. There are always a
thousand or more unused every year.

I usually take 4 and load the freezer. Puts a nice
dent in the grocery bill.

I had a herd of 25 to 30 deer come running by and at
one point had three or four 4X4's, a couple 3X3's and
10 or 12 does. This after shooting my two. I was out
of the stand by 12:40 (40 minutes after opening).

If I'd only had a banana clip for the 270!!:D

[Ben Brewcat]

Man! Here I am, used to live in Wisconsin where you'll kill deer with a flyrod if you're not careful on your backswing :). Now I have to spend two months getting in shape to hoof through a thousand feet of elevation change for a "close" shot of 200 yards. Still it's like fishing, bad day hunting beats a good day working every time! :D Enjoy that venison, I'll try to play catch-up this week!

[Sundance]

Still it's like fishing, bad day hunting beats a good day working every time!


That is indeed the bottom line!! The thought of hunting
in the mountains is something to truly envy! Have fun.

[Zane]

Ben, Where do you hunt? over there(no secret spots!)? I hunted the west slope alot as a kid and will be heading out to my sisters yard for a drawn cow tag later on.

Sundance, congrats on your harvest. I sure like it when a plan works out!!!

We too get 4 tags ea for free as landowners and can buy as many $6 doe tags we want(well until they run out if that ever happened). I saw close to 30 deer today and had some big hooved brute dug up my newly planted yard last night. He's gonna pay for that!!
The goal here is to get my deer off the porch drinking a cup of coffee and reading the newspaper, and me still in my shorts! Maybe someday.

I went out scouting today and the rut is starting strong here. Lots of scrapes and rubs after not much a week ago. I wont be able to sleep the rest of the week!! Opener this Sat:)

[alpha6]

Ben,

You got to get off the front range. We have lots of Mule Deer and Elk right out the back door. Took a big doe Friday...shot it from up hill, walked down, gutted it then went to the house got the truck and drove to it, backed the truck up to it and brought it home...cooling as we speak. Total time from leaving the house to bringing home the bacon right at 2 hrs.

Got a herd of about 100 elk every morning about 400 yds from here on BLM. Wait...wait...yep...I hear them calling you Ben. :D

[Black Creek]

well, i harvested just a small buck with the musket so far this year... Wild game is the only red meat i eat all year long. If it doesnt make it into the freezer during season, then we go with out. So i use all that i can. Normally i always go for the heart and liver(and brains to use to tan the hide) but i've never tried kidneys. I kept them this time. Anyone know of a good kidney recipe ?

and for those of you who havent tried this..... keep all the bones as you butcher the deer and make a soup stock. I keep all the bones and the big ones i cut open to expose the marrow(a sawzall with a fresh blade makes it easy) and boil them. take out the cooked bones add in more raw ones and more water as needed. I reduced an entire buck's skeleton down into 2 cups of liquid. oh man ! That is some GOOD stuff right there !!! Venison Ambrosia !

[Black Creek]

Oh... and dont add any salt or anything until AFTER you are done reducing the volume or it will be way too salty

[Ben Brewcat]

Yeah I hear you, my good neighbors! Thing is it's far enough away to get to any good western slope hunting that to add in scouting trips etc. just hasn't worked for me. Granted I'm a hunting newbie so maybe in subsequent years. The only drawback here is CWD really, and it's still under 6% even in the worst area. Populations are good (I'm not a trophy hunter so don't care about racks), hunting pressure virtually ends after two miles of hiking, and I can sleep in my own bed! I see a good number of animals, I just wasn't enough hunter last year to harvest. :doh: Live and learn.

My area's no secret: I hunt right here outside Boulder in Lefthand canyon, between Jamestown and Gold Hill. Last year I also hunted elk in some beautiful private land down by Coughlin meadows near Ned.

And since I'm currently without a functioning truck, I'm hunting out of the wife's Subaru Forester. How's THAT for Boulder county hunting :D!

[John F]

Now I have to spend two months getting in shape to hoof through a thousand feet of elevation change ...

I don't know what it is but it seems to me it used to take two weeks to get in shape and 3 months to get out of shape; now, 3 months to get in shape and out of shape in two weeks.

Wsup?!

I absolutely love packing into and hunting wilderness areas during the rut. Call in a bull and get him throwing small trees over his shoulder and you'll understand. But man, it seems like so much work now.

And we have girly show horses, not manly mountain steeds... (I've mentioned this to my wife and she doesn't seem to care.)

Anyway, NE rifle deer season this weekend.

[Karl]

Our Wisconsin gun season opened last Saturday and runs through Sunday. In order to shoot a buck we must first tag a doe. My part of the state is in a CWD zone so the D.N.R. wants to bring down the herd size. Took a nice doe opening morning. Aged at 5 years so most will be sausage. Wednesday tagged a four point buck. Nice, young and tender. This will be the steak , roast and chop animal. We were lucky to have some ground snow for a change.

[Scrapfe]

DOOD! I wanna hunt where...you can harvest FOUR deer!

Ben, you need to come to the land o cotton then, (No Tom L!!! I ain't talkin bout' California.) Last time I figured it up :scratch: you could legally bag a max of 90+ deer per season here by using all types of weapons and/or moving around a little. That could net you over 7 tons of venison, field dressed weight. You can ever hunt old school, with hounds :thumbsup:

Don’t have any new comparative statics, but a few years back the Bambi population here was number 2 nationally and Texas, the leading state, has five times the land area. Never talked to anyone who has limited out, but I knew one guy who came close year after year. He ran a cow & calf operation in Randolph County. He hunted over his creep feeders while sitting on a tree stump. He killed more deer than you could shake an antler at. All fat and corn fed too.

[peggjam]

I've taken 5 so far, an the wife 3..ground it all into venison hamburg...yum, yum:D.