Pretty Nice Buck

[Racinbob 13,193]

Checked the trail cam this afternoon. First time I've caught them going at it. Seems like a bit of a mismatch though. 

 

[Ed Kennell 47,368]

I'd take him for a ride behind my .

[rjg854 13,360]

Wow that's quite the rack 😁 

[WHX?? 58,145]

1 hour ago, Ed Kennell said:

'd take him for a ride behind my .

Lowering the standards Ed Dog? 

You see this @Mike'sHorseBarn? Thinkin maybe we outta see about IN licenses.  

Edited Friday at 10:48 PM by WHX??

[Ed Kennell 47,368]

56 minutes ago, WHX?? said:

2 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

'd take him for a ride behind my .

Lowering the standards Ed Dog? 

Yes Sir.   My days of sitting in a tree dawn to dusk for weeks  waiting for a Pope & Young  is over.   The first legal mature buck that presents a standing 20 yd broadside shot goes home with me.  No room on the wall anyway and I luv venison.

Last year I was only in my stand one day for 45  minutes when this guy followed me home.

 

[WHX?? 58,145]

1 hour ago, Ed Kennell said:

weeks  waiting for a Pope & Young  is over. 

 

1 hour ago, Ed Kennell said:

and I luv venison.

Yep ... cant eat them horns and boiled tag goes down kinds rough.... just sayin ... 

[Mike'sHorseBarn 3,681]

4 hours ago, WHX?? said:

You see this @Mike'sHorseBarn? Thinkin maybe we outta see about IN licenses.  

 

Yep! Those mid western bucks are built different!

[pfrederi 21,151]

10 hours ago, Mike'sHorseBarn said:

 

Yep! Those mid western bucks are built different!

  My barber here in PA goes deer hunting in Indiana every year....

[WHX?? 58,145]

14 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

Yes Sir.   My days of sitting in a tree dawn to dusk for weeks  waiting for a Pope & Young  is over.   The first legal mature buck that presents a standing 20 yd broadside shot goes home with me.  No room on the wall anyway and I luv venison.

Last year I was only in my stand one day for 45  minutes when this guy followed me home.

 

Still blows me away you don’t field dress. 

[adsm08 5,149]

19 minutes ago, WHX?? said:

Still blows me away you don’t field dress. 

I'm pretty sure Ed has them back to his garage in less time than it usually takes me to drag them back to my truck.

[Ed Kennell 47,368]

3 hours ago, WHX?? said:

Still blows me away you don’t field dress. 

My deer are usually skinned then dressed within an hour of the shot.  I always ride my  to my stand and only take double lung shots so I know the bucks only live 8-10 seconds.  All doe are instant kill head shots.  I'm too old and lazy to track and drag deer like I did for 50 years.  Dressing while hanging after skinning is easier and cleaner.  If the temp is above 45 they are also deboned while hanging and put in the fridge.

If the temp is cool enough I let them hang overnight for easier cutting and removal of all silver skin.

[oliver2-44 11,753]

49 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said:

My deer are usually skinned then dressed within an hour of the shot.  I always ride my  to my stand and only take double lung shots so I know the bucks only live 8-10 seconds.  All doe are instant kill head shots.  I'm too old and lazy to track and drag deer like I did for 50 years.  Dressing while hanging after skinning is easier and cleaner.  If the temp is above 45 they are also deboned while hanging and put in the fridge.

If the temp is cool enough I let them hang overnight for easier cutting and removal of all silver skin.

I do the same in the field.  

Skin, then gut, then quarter.

I cut the backstrap off in the field , then split the ribs and neck. 

No need for a giant cooler, A nice buck, easily fits into a 50 quart cooler with ice.  

 

[SylvanLakeWH 32,532]

@Ed Kennell curious what you do with the skins?

 

@oliver2-44?

Edited yesterday at 01:23 AM by SylvanLakeWH

[Ed Kennell 47,368]

7 minutes ago, SylvanLakeWH said:

@Ed Kennell curious what you do with the skin

For many years I caped out all the buck and sold them to a local taxidermist for $25.     The hides were dropped at a local hide dealer for a $1 each.

Unfortunately, both these guys passed a few years back and I don't have anyone close.   My arthritic fingers aren't too keen on caping and fleshing hides these days,  so now they get returned to the wild with the innards and bones to feed the eagles, hawks, fox, and coyotes.

[kwalshy 266]

I've never tried to skin then field dress.  I was taught to get those guts out asap, hang, then skin.

 

In your opinion: For those of you that skin 1st then field dress, does it really make butchering that much easier? 

Edited 10 hours ago by kwalshy

[Gasaholic 390]

yeah .. like kwalshy, we would field dress first - makes a difference between dragging a 210 lb buck and a 180 lb field dressed buck a mile and a quarter over mostly snow-free grass fields (didn't have ATVs or horses back then to help drag over the hills and through the fields)  but it'd be a lot easier to dress and skin if we'd been near enough to the hanging "tree" (swing set built from welded up 2 inch iron pipe) to get 'm hoisted .. so the field dress thing was more to do with getting the deer out with the least effort possible.