Author Topic: 2016 deer season is finished. (Read 7226 times)

Alleyyooper · « **on:** November 20, 2016, 08:51:50 pm »

32F feels like 21F wind NW @ 17mph. by 9:30 am it was down to 32 with a wind chill of 18F and 25 mph winds. Glad the wood burner was fired up as I came in frozen.

4:40pm in my front yard, first seen at 2:30, he was chasing does.

Buck hammer ruined the heart and lungs he went about 10 feet. I call him a 7 1/2 as one brow tine is broken off.

Al

iddee · « **Reply #1 on:** November 20, 2016, 09:13:24 pm »

Nice one. The one I got last night was only a 4 pointer. Still good eating, tho.
Season just came in last Saturday. Stays in until Jan.2. We are allowed 6 deer, but only 2 can be bucks.

neillsayers · « **Reply #2 on:** November 20, 2016, 10:03:34 pm »

Nice buck Al

Chip Euliss · « **Reply #3 on:** November 21, 2016, 01:07:32 pm »

Our rifle season closed yesterday and I just sat down from cutting up the last of the meat. I got my buck the first weekend and my son got his on Saturday just before the close yesterday. He and I both have archery tags and that runs till the first of the year but I figure I'll be pretty picky this year. Seems I tore 2 tendons on my left shoulder and getting the bow drawn involves bracing off my left knee :\'( so I'm quite the comedy right now. Once I get the bow back it's not too tough to hold it long enough for a shot but I can't draw it back like a normal human

I have the surgery scheduled for January 24 right after I get back from tending bees in California. Six weeks of recovery this time since they have to use screws to put me back together. Getting older is about what my Mom said it would be.

LazyBkpr · « **Reply #4 on:** November 22, 2016, 04:32:36 pm »

Nice buck, and I bet he was still good eating!
My buddy got a 5 pointer when he came out here for Black Powder season.. had two buck tags and two doe tags.. I filled both doe tags when he left. He was after the Big fellow.. A fourteen point buck that is a SMART deer. We saw him, but never got close enough to poke at him.. I have a buck tag for late shotgun season. Hoping I get the scope settled on him in January. If I do I will add him to the wall beside my ten pointer.

iddee · « **Reply #5 on:** November 23, 2016, 05:42:40 pm »

We canned 16 pints of venison and ground 14 lb. of burger. Then jerkyed the loins. We still have the neck and one shoulder to do tomorrow. That's it for the little 4 pointer we got Saturday.

iddee · « **Reply #6 on:** November 23, 2016, 09:14:42 pm »

Just had a visitor. A friend dropped off a 6 point buck, dressed, quartered, and packed on ice. Now that's the lazy way of deer hunting.

Some Day · « **Reply #7 on:** November 23, 2016, 09:21:00 pm »

No deer for me yet this year, but I did get this little guy in Oct. He is cut up and in the freezer.

neillsayers · « **Reply #8 on:** November 23, 2016, 09:22:25 pm »

Quote from: iddee on November 23, 2016, 09:14:42 pm

Just had a visitor. A friend dropped off a 6 point buck, dressed, quartered, and packed on ice. Now that's the lazy way of deer hunting.

Now thats a friend!

Chip Euliss · « **Reply #9 on:** November 24, 2016, 10:04:17 pm »

Just back from Minnesota celebrating Thanksgiving with my daughter, son and families. Son smoked a front quarter of his buck, a ham from a wild pig he shot in Texas earlier this year, and I cooked a young sandhill crane and 2 white-fronted geese. We've always cooked what we have harvested in the tradition of Thanksgiving--even the vegetables (except some fruit) came from our garden. Still full and we have leftovers for several days for 3 households! I'll have to work a little of that off tomorrow

I'm back to bowhunting after the rifle season closed last Sunday. Nothing yet but I did see a really good one and I have time on my side. My rifle deer was a buck that I almost got a shot at when I was bow hunting a week earlier. He came within 25 yards but there was a smaller buck that was even closer, nervous and pretty much blocked any chance I had at a shot until the one I wanted was out of range. Here is a picture:

I did manage to harvest the same buck the second day of the rifle season and his little buddy wasn't around to get in the way that time. A nice fat 4 1/2 year old. We've had some of the loin grilled with a bacon wrap and it was excellent.

Deer are fairly large in North Dakota. Mine weighed about 250 lbs and the one my son got was 210 or so. They get much larger. It's all fun and I've enjoy seeing the squirrels and birds about as much as seeing the the deer. Bees are mostly gone so it's been nice to kick back and relax a little.

Chip Euliss · « **Reply #10 on:** November 24, 2016, 10:07:12 pm »

That elk looks pretty tasty Some Day

Some Day · « **Reply #11 on:** November 24, 2016, 11:05:07 pm »

Quote from: Chip Euliss on November 24, 2016, 10:07:12 pm

That elk looks pretty tasty Some Day

I love to eat venison, but I have to say elk is even better.

For a little while after I got this elk out of the canyon and back down the mountain I was considering taking up quail hunting, as I hear quail are a lot easier to carry back to the truck.

Chip Euliss · « **Reply #12 on:** November 24, 2016, 11:09:58 pm »

Quote from: Some Day on November 24, 2016, 11:05:07 pm

Quote from: Chip Euliss on November 24, 2016, 10:07:12 pm
That elk looks pretty tasty Some Day

I love to eat venison, but I have to say elk is even better.

For a little while after I got this elk out of the canyon and back down the mountain I was considering taking up quail hunting, as I hear quail are a lot easier to carry back to the truck.

They are indeed and good eating too! At my age, I need a loader tractor or a strong young hunting partner to help get the larger critters home

Knucs · « **Reply #13 on:** November 25, 2016, 10:17:45 am »

Chip, that is one nice buck. Yes, elk tastes very good. If you ever get the chance to eat moose, don't pass it up, its even better. A friend of mine heads out near Perry, ?an island off of Nova Scotia?, gets one every time, delicious!

Chip Euliss · « **Reply #14 on:** November 25, 2016, 01:25:08 pm »

Thanks Knucs. I have had moose and they are delicious. We have moose but only a handful of tags each year and they are once in a lifetime, like elk and bighorn sheep in ND. I keep applying in hopes that I get lucky one of these years.

Mikey N.C. · « **Reply #15 on:** November 25, 2016, 05:34:51 pm »

What kind of bows do ya'll use now ( cross,compound, 10" composite bolts(arrows) ? When i first used compound bows they were PSE

LazyBkpr · « **Reply #16 on:** November 25, 2016, 05:53:54 pm »

For a little while after I got this elk out of the canyon and back down the mountain I was considering taking up quail hunting, as I hear quail are a lot easier to carry back to the truck.

LOL!!!!
Huting in Maine was nothing like hunting here.. Dragging a deer through the woods for a mile and a half was not a lot of fun.. Here, we drag them up out of the bottom. A hundred yards or so, then drive through the field to load them up.
I used to know farmers that would PAY you to shoot as many as you could, and then pick the one you wanted to take home... If you didn't put down three or four before they got out of range they didn't want you to hunt their land... Nowdays they get paid by folks from out east or west to hunt their lands exclusively and wont let anyone else in... It has caused a few trucks with out of state tags to be burned...
I can't really blame them myself.. if someone offered me a few grand for exclusive privileges to hunt my land I'd probably take it too. But I also miss hunting many of the local places I always did as a kid.

Moose ranks right up there with beef. EXCELLENT eating. Bear.. I could pass on. I wouldnt starve if I had bear meat, but consider BEEF, MOOSE, PORK, ELK, Venison... other to be my priority list. No moose or Elk here so its the choice of beef, pork and venison.

Idee... you JERKED the loins?? WHAAAAAAAT?? NO! You Jerk the quarters or shoulders, NOT one of the best and most tender cuts!! Whats WRONG with you!

iddee · « **Reply #17 on:** November 25, 2016, 06:08:09 pm »

I've never had anyone try my jerky that didn't think it was the best they ever had. I'll keep using the loin, thank you.

You said "pick the one you want". I pick them all. It's not unusual for me to be given 20 deer in a season. I keep what I need and give the rest to others. None is wasted and I have all the loins I want. I don't jerky them all, but all my jerky is made from the loins.

Chip Euliss · « **Reply #18 on:** November 25, 2016, 08:09:26 pm »

Quote from: Mikey N.C. on November 25, 2016, 05:34:51 pm

What kind of bows do ya'll use now ( cross,compound, 10" composite bolts(arrows) ? When i first used compound bows they were PSE

Usually use a recurve Mikey but this year I switched to a compound because I tore a couple of tendons in my left shoulder and couldn't handle the weight. Doc says I'll be in a sling for 6 weeks so the only time slot for the surgery is this coming January after I get home from tending bees in California. I can't even break the compound bow over the normal way--have to use my left knee to break the bow over and then move around for the shot. Pretty comical but it will be easier to laugh when I'm back to "normal"

Some Day · « **Reply #19 on:** November 25, 2016, 08:58:31 pm »

Quote from: Mikey N.C. on November 25, 2016, 05:34:51 pm

What kind of bows do ya'll use now ( cross,compound, 10" composite bolts(arrows) ? When i first used compound bows they were PSE

I use recurve and longbows. On this little guy I used a Black Widow PL II Longbow.