Deer season.

[LazyBkpr]

   We went to buy licenses a couiple weeks ago, to find, that there were none left....
   Annoyed, i bypassed the lack of licenses and filed for land owner tags...
  My wife took a BIG six pointer tonight, hes hanging in the shed... tomorrow we are going to try to fill the doe tags...   
   With my wife leaving for Maine for four or five years starting next week, I will be eating a LOT of venison and fish.. things she doesnt enjoy, so I have not hunted a lot...  with her leaving, it will be a primary part of my diet again, at least until she returns...  So the hunt is on!
   I didnt post pics because I am unsure just how much they would be appriciated..  We did watch a NICE ten pointer from our stand a couple days before season opened.. he is still wandering about, and I have no interest in taking him.. The one I have on the wall is bigger, so he gets a pass this year...
   I videoed him in order to lure a friend of mine out here for the season next year..
     
   Nice deer, but his girlfriends will taste so much better!

[neillsayers]

purty fella

[Jen]

"and I have no interest in taking him.. " 

Nice 4x4! Don't know your reasoning for that Scott, but I don't want to take the big ole boys just because they are huge, I like to leave their breeding genes out there. Although I won't promise that if it's the last weekend of deer season and I haven't bagged one yet. I prefer our muleys at 3 and 4 points. Any bigger than that and they're pretty gamey for my taste.

Nice video And glad you have some venison in the freezer. We have one more day to bring in a 3rd deer. .I have found that I like more venison burger nowadays. Can make larger batches of food, like meatballs, taco's, spaghetti, soup... That way I can cook every other day.

[iddee]

Nice. I haven't hunted yet, but have been given 3 eight pointers and a six pointer. Son has made summer sausage, polish sausage, jerky, and plain breakfast sausage patties.

[lazy shooter]

That is really nice photography.  He's a nice buck and still young.  What does the average buck and doe field dress in your area, in pounds?  I would guess the bucks at 200 pounds and the doe at about 140 pounds.

Again, really nice video!

[LazyBkpr]

Thats an excellent guess Shooter..  The six pointer she shot was 213 dressed. With luck I will have a doe or two weighed by tonight.

   Jen..   I dont like to take bucks at all, they dont taste NEARLY as good as the does do. i Like my steaks, and the does are not as chewy or gamy. Like you, I grind all but the best cuts of the bucks into burger. The does are steaks and roasts.

   Iddee, your son is a wizard with that smoker and cooking in general. Thered be no way for me to lose weight if I lived anywhere near him....

[efmesch]

Lazy, how did you manage to get him to pose in one spot for such a long time?  Do they stand so still when you shoot at them?

[Jen]

"I dont like to take bucks at all, they dont taste NEARLY as good as the does do."

    We are only allowed to shoot bucks period, there has never been a doe hunt here. maybe neighboring states, but I'm not familiar with their hunting regs.

    That's why I prefer our bucks to be 3-5 years old, or... in your point count not including the eye guards... 4 points on up to 10 points. That is still some pretty tender meat.

    Want to make some pemmican this year   

[LazyBkpr]

   Ef;   He was standing still like that because of the does wandering around on the other side of the stand we were in, as well as a smaller buck. He was busy watching them under our stand. The nice thing about the enclosed stand is that they have no idea we are there if we are quiet, so usually they do stand nicely still for us.
   Jen; Bucks are limited here, we usually have ONE buck tag, and any others we wish to take are the does. Out of state hunters pay to lease land so they can take a trophy buck. they come from EVERYWHERE to hunt here because the corn fed bucks are often the largest in the country..   Most of the places i used to hunt as a kid are now leased to out of state hunters..  i have seen numerous out of state vehicles parked on the side of the road during deer season, and all that was left of them are BURNED out hulks of metal...   There are a lot of residents that have lost their places to hunt, because that corporate executive from Boston is willing to pay farmer Joe two or three grand for the exclusive rights to hunt his section... in farmer joe's defense, an extra two or three grand for doing nothing has to be very tempting...  The problem is, they hunt ONLY for the big bucks, and leave the doe's.. we are nearly ALWAYS overpopulated. The deer are like rats in a grain silo, they are everywhere, so the DNR limits the bucks taken insisting that we shoot does...   i am good with that. They are more tender by far than a buck in rut that is pumped up on hormones and has been fighting AND hasnt eaten in several days.

[Jen]

Interesting. And thanks for explaining that. I would bring in doe's as well if we could. We average 2 bucks a year. But there have been a couple years in deer camp where there have been literally a pile of bucks waiting to get pulled up on the block. It's exciting and really helps keep the hunting morale up. This year our crew has hunted to the last minute to bring home the meat. So far, my hubby and son are the only ones that bags a buck this year.

   hehehe.... Oh Yah! It's MY MEN that always get one in the freezer first. I'm not competitive at all, snark. But we have taught our nephews, no nieces yet, how to bag a buck. Don't hesitate. See a buck... Legal?... POW! 1 2 3! 

[LazyBkpr]

Its my WIFE that usually tags out before anyone else. We used to accuse of of peeing near her stand to lure the big bucks in and banned her from the "mens" hunting club, but shes still allowed to attend so long as she keeps cooking!

[Jen]

I am the one who cooks the venison dinners around here... I would LOVE for someone to cook me a veni dinner! Let's see I would order it in this fashion:

Backstrap cut into medallions 1/4 (or thinner) inch thick. Dredged lightly in flour, salt and pepper, pinch of cinnamon. Throw in hot oil, fill up the pan with meat and by the time the pan is full, start turning the meat over to crispy sear the other side. Ladel up the crispy meat onto a cookie rack let cool no longer than one minute, EAT! Or... make veni flour gravy scrapping up all the burnt tidbits. Saddle that fried meat right next to garlic mashed potatoes, and cover with veni gravy. Pull the roasted garlic asparagus from the oven, add to plate...EAT! 

This is my favorite way. Veni chops is my second fav