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Pullstart
2 hours ago, EB-80/8inPA said:

Just stumbled across this 2022 thread and IMHO, you ought to do just that.  It may prove not only be an inflation hedge, but a just being able to get them at all hedge.  How dry is your basement?


Well, It’s flooded twice in 3 years.  Once on the way home from the 2019 Big Show, and again this year in May.  :sad-pacing:

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Pullstart

A lot of the meat was beat up pretty bad.  Front shoulders had damage, rear hips/tailbone area were destroyed.  I harvested two real good pans of meat though!  Most of the backstraps were salvaged!

 

Thanks to Chloe the 953 for such a stout hood :handgestures-salute:

 

*edit* Sealed and weighed, we accumulated 29.6 lbs.  at meat market prices, we made a good haul!

 

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Pullstart

I believe that I’ll continue to hang ‘em upside down from now on…

 

 

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SylvanLakeWH

Neighbors front yard this evening… they’re like squirrels around here. But no hunting allowed… :(

 

 

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Ed Kennell
10 hours ago, SylvanLakeWH said:

they’re like squirrels around here

 

Huh, you mean they climb trees???

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rjg854
11 hours ago, SylvanLakeWH said:

Neighbors front yard this evening… they’re like squirrels around here. But no hunting allowed… :(

 

 

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look at all those delicious plantings, I'm sure the deer appreciate them  :ychain:

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Ed Kennell
4 hours ago, rjg854 said:

I'm sure the deer appreciate them

The new "Green Pruning Machine".

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Handy Don

For several years I'd plunk the (incredibly entitled and presumptuous) deer in our yard with pebbles using a strong slingshot. Got good enough to hit wherever I wanted out to about 30-40 feet.

What I learned is that deer are not too bright.

Hit one in the side and they just look up and give you a "Huh? Whazzzat?" look.

Hit 'em in the head (and get a solid, hollow-sounding "thunk") and they jump about 5 feet and THEN give you the same look.

I gave up and after they ate all the deer candy I planted stuff they don't eat.

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Pullstart

A few weeks back Mrs. P and I volunteered for the local United Way.  We did a clean up in town and her and I were appointed to yank plants and bushes that had overgrown.  There were tons of hostas.  I thought about planting them around my deer stands for food plots!

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Jeff-C175

I'm sorry I couldn't get any pictures but I was very surprised to see a big buck at the bird feeders... And he wandered off behind the garages, here comes another of roughly the same size and he too wandered off in the same direction.

 

And then...

 

Here comes yet ANOTHER! A bit bigger than the other two, and, and, it's a Piebald!  Not a LOT of white, but both front legs, the inside of his rear legs, and most of his face.

 

How odd to see three bucks hanging out together?

 

And one is a Piebald?

 

Wow...

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Ed Kennell
30 minutes ago, Jeff-C175 said:

I'm sorry I couldn't get any pictures

Not as sorry as we are.  We have to use our imagination of that sight.

Get a camera on a tripod and leave it focused on the bird feeders.     :banana-gotpics:

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Ed Kennell

It finally stopped raining today so I grabber the Xbow and rode the 312  back to the tree stand.

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Got in the tree and two younguns showed up at dark and hung around under my tree.        I flipped the flash on and when he looked up I took the shot.

Look close, you can see two 7-8" spikes.

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WHX??
On 9/26/2022 at 8:18 PM, Pullstart said:

I thought about planting them around my deer stands for food plots!

Not a bad idea Kev they love hostas here. 

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Pullstart

Check this out!

 

 

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Ed Kennell

That one has been around for a while.    Probably a deer that has been hand fed and domesticated and learned to like the salty taste of laundry detergent while living in the burbs back yards.

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Ed Kennell

 May be an image of text that says 'WEATHER FOLKLORE When deer are in a gray coat in October, expect a hard winter. THE OLD FARMER'S ALMANAC'                                What color are your deer?

 

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SylvanLakeWH

Tan/brown… :(

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WHX??

:text-yeahthat:but almost/could be considered grayish. 

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Jeff-C175

:text-yeahthat:

 

No grayer than usual, but that piebald I saw was very brown where he wasn't white.

 

 

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Ed Kennell

I got in my tree at 5PM today and saw 9 deer in 2 hours.   All doe and fawns and all were brown.

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WHX??

Brown is down Ed Dog???? I'm thinking Kev would say that but you are gonna be really POed at me Ed.

I had this HUGE whole back strap that was looking pretty sweet tiil... 

I cut it up and butterflied it and soaked it in two types of marinade. Variety is the spice of life right? 

One one McCormicks bacon smokey BBQ. The other is a Brazilian herb mix which was quite good is the past right Kev? 

Anyhoo I decided to wrap the McCormick ones in bacon  ... OK who does not like bacon?

Threw them on the grill since Cindy was about to get home from work . Yah Kev they was supposed to go on the smoker but I lost track of time ... blame it on a 701:lol:

Long story short I went in to do the dishes and the Bacon ones got shot down in flames. :hide:

I swear the dishes only took 2 minutes!

Oh well I managed to save a few.

 

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Gottsa be the worse culinary castrator of my life.

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WHX??

Saving grace perhaps ? I saved a big chuck in tin foil and stuffed it with onions  jalapeños  just salt and pepper for tomorrow nite.  Goes in the oven.  

 

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Ed Kennell
2 hours ago, WHX?? said:

OK who does not like bacon?

No pig allowed on my straps.  

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WHX??
10 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

No pig allowed on my straps.  

Tenderloins Ed? 

 

Just to give you guys an idea of how many deer there are around here. Bought my gun and bow tags last week. A reasonable 24 bucks each. With each buck only tag came four free doe only tags. They have to be used on private land in my county or farmland zone tho. Not a concern. Between Cindy and I we have 15 tags!

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Ed Kennell

eMay be an image of tree, outdoors and text that says 'The Ultimate deer stand!'                                 Ordered  my new deer stand.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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