muzzleloader

[BigBear]

Coolness. Jerky time!

Mr. Porcupine is like: "What chu want Willis?!"

[henpecked]

Got him right on the north facing side of notellum ridge.

Ive shot several nice bucks there during the early rifle season.

[sniper7]

Ive shot several nice bucks there during the early rifle season.

it is a great spot! we need to keep it on the down low though

[henpecked]

No worry 95 percent of the hunters there are to lazy to leave there trucks.

Steve

[sniper7]

No worry 95 percent of the hunters there are to lazy to leave there trucks.

Steve

aint that the truth. watched guys on 4 wheelers drive around all day with their orange on. They stopped once when I was putting the meat in the truck and they saw the antlers. they asked where I got him..."right next to the road, just gotta get lucky I guess!"

[henpecked]

aint that the truth. watched guys on 4 wheelers drive around all day with their orange on. They stopped once when I was putting the meat in the truck and they saw the antlers. they asked where I got him..."right next to the road, just gotta get lucky I guess!"

Pretty place and I hope you have more pictures to share

Steve

[Irving]

That's a big ass deer. I still can't understand how you're supposed to pack something like that out of the woods with out an ATV, dolly, and engine cherry picker.

[theGinsue]

Just got home today at a wedding now... this chick is bigger than my damn elk. Ill post pics tonight!

Still waiting for those pics!

Oh, you meant of the bull; I thought you meant pics of the chick.




Awesome harvest Sniper. Given the warmer weather and the delayed rut it's even more difficult to harvest an elk so you should be especially proud!

[sniper7]

That's a big ass deer. I still can't understand how you're supposed to pack something like that out of the woods with out an ATV, dolly, and engine cherry picker.

I will look and see if I still have my pictures of the detailed process to quarter out and animal.

basically you cut off all 4 quarters. use a saw to cut off the bone just below the knee because that is just bone, almost no muscle/meat and a waste of weight.
take off the backstraps (meat the runs all the way down the neck to the rear quarter on both sides of the spine).
cut off the neck meat and throw the scraps into a bag for burger.
cape it out if you want to do a full shoulder mount (all the hide from the shoulder forward is the cape), cut the head off as far up as possible to keep from hauling the weight of just neck bones.
or if you don't cape it, you can cut into the skull and get the antlers off...and scrape out the little bit of brain that comes along with it!

time consuming, and a bit tiring of a process, you have to work carefully to not cut yourself, not get in a rush, not waste meat, watch out of animals who want the meat more than you and keep the meat clean the whole time!

I always say, once the animal is down...then the work truly begins.

[sniper7]

Still waiting for those pics!

Oh, you meant of the bull; I thought you meant pics of the chick.




Awesome harvest Sniper. Given the warmer weather and the delayed rut it's even more difficult to harvest an elk so you should be especially proud!

I have been advised by my better half that I am not supposed to post pictures of the beast I saw roaming in town.

yeah, the weather was killing, I was just glad we got into them. my buddy should have had a really nice 5x5, but it didn't happen so no point dwelling on it.