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DiamondDave wrote:Awesome deer you have there sir!

I typically process my own.....no canning, but full on butchering. I also do taxidermy part time.

All that difficult meat in the front shoulders and neck, just hack it into chunks and can it, turns out tender as hell and delish. The silver skin in those muscles virtually dissappears and saves all the time to "filet" it out to edible meat.

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DiamondDave wrote:Awesome morels!


In May I innoculated 60 logs with Miatake(hen of the woods), chicken of the woods, and Hermicium(lions mane or bears head). All sought after medicial mushrooms in the orient. Among other uses, they are mainly are used to help regulate blood sugar, stress, dimentia, and have been found to have anti-tumor/cancer properties. I should be rolling in shrooms this fall.

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I am absolutely jealous of all the mushrooms you'll have coming!
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wrekkr wrote:
DiamondDave wrote:Awesome deer you have there sir!

I typically process my own.....no canning, but full on butchering. I also do taxidermy part time.

All that difficult meat in the front shoulders and neck, just hack it into chunks and can it, turns out tender as hell and delish. The silver skin in those muscles virtually dissappears and saves all the time to "filet" it out to edible meat.



I always package my own. I cut the back-straps into steaks and grind the hams, and shoulders, and everything else. Keeps me from ever having to buy hamburger meat. If I can put up 5-7 deer each season between my wife and me, that usually gets me through the spring and summer to next deer season.

Great bucks, by the way, wrekkr. I have that same quiver on my bow.
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Gutshot, the great state of Georgia. Turkey hunting is a freaking addiction of mine. I love it. Those early season hunts when it is still real cool in the morning are the best. They gobble better then too of course. And yall can't hunt until late April? That sucks. That's snake boot weather.

wrekker, those are some dang nice bucks. I'll put you on a Georgia gobbler if I can come deer hunting up there. :D
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Great pics, guys. I'm not into hunting at all, but that's cool that you guys are.

I'm gonna get some pics together from my recent fishing excursion.
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Cole Younger wrote:Gutshot, the great state of Georgia. Turkey hunting is a freaking addiction of mine. I love it. Those early season hunts when it is still real cool in the morning are the best. They gobble better then too of course. And yall can't hunt until late April? That sucks. That's snake boot weather.

wrekker, those are some dang nice bucks. I'll put you on a Georgia gobbler if I can come deer hunting up there. :D



Yeah, It sucks listening to them blow up the woods all March and early April, and then turn dead silent in mid-April when I finally have a gun in my hand. I've been lucky to catch up to a few birds on the first day or two of the last two seasons. I got on this one the first two days last season and finally nailed him down on day 3. He's my best one to date.


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gutshot wrote:
Cole Younger wrote:Gutshot, the great state of Georgia. Turkey hunting is a freaking addiction of mine. I love it. Those early season hunts when it is still real cool in the morning are the best. They gobble better then too of course. And yall can't hunt until late April? That sucks. That's snake boot weather.

wrekker, those are some dang nice bucks. I'll put you on a Georgia gobbler if I can come deer hunting up there. :D



Yeah, It sucks listening to them blow up the woods all March and early April, and then turn dead silent in mid-April when I finally have a gun in my hand. I've been lucky to catch up to a few birds on the first day or two of the last two seasons. I got on this one the first two days last season and finally nailed him down on day 3. He's my best one to date.


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Man look at them spurs!! Nice one.

I spent a cold morning in early April last year fooling with one for over two hours. He would walk up and down a logging road behind me gobbling but never would come on in. I finally shut up. Just quit calling all together and totally hung up on him. That brought him on in. One of the most exciting hunts of my life.
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Cole Younger wrote:Gutshot, the great state of Georgia. Turkey hunting is a freaking addiction of mine. I love it. Those early season hunts when it is still real cool in the morning are the best. They gobble better then too of course. And yall can't hunt until late April? That sucks. That's snake boot weather.

wrekker, those are some dang nice bucks. I'll put you on a Georgia gobbler if I can come deer hunting up there. :D


Well, I used to get into turkey hunting a lot when I was younger but over the years I've lost interest and have come to think of turkeys more as a nuisance than anything so I'm not all up on turkey hunting. First off here it costs ~$32 to hunt them and the meat is marginal at best. The downside is that since they were "introduced" here the result has been the complete dissappeared of ruffed grouse. I can hunt ruffed grouse for free and they tasted way awesome, plus Gauge gets to go hunting with me. Before the turkeys took off you could always here the grouse drumming all over the hills and in a two hour hike through the timber, even without a dog you could have anywhere from 20-50 flushes. It was mad birds everywhere. I would't got out without atleast two boxes of shells in my hunting vest. I haven't seen or heard a grouse in the last three years there. The turkeys out forrage the grouse and also the turkeys provide more food for the predators like eagles, hawks and coyotes. So the predators have increased dramatically, inbetween eating turkeys they just have hammered the native grouse to obliteration. That said, anyone who wants to come to the shakk and shoot as many turkeys as you can get tags for, more than welcome.
Now, on to the deer hunting. If you want to bow hunt and shoot a dow or a cull deer I'd be open to that. But, I've spent the last fifteen years managing the property for trophy whitetail. I've eaten my gun buck tag every year except for two when I've shot nice wall mounters and this year was the first year I have ever tagged a buck with my bow tag. I've had some friends down to bow hunt before, but gun hunting is out of the question. THe only people who get to gun hunt is myself, my brother and Cotter. Cotter has helped me with a ton of projects and hooking me up with useful things and is on target with the management of the whitetail that I am trying to do there.

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Salivating over those morels.

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I got more(l):
Iowan wrote:Salivating over those morels.

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Wrekkr,
The way you feel about turkeys is the same way we feel about hogs around here. Outsiders see them as a treasure because they don't have as many of them or any at all in some cases. We just consider them a nuisance. They ruin our deer hints and terrorize our turkey nesting. I've had people offer to trade me turkey hunts for hog hunts. I just want to get rid of them.


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Damnit wrekkr. More 'shroom porn.

Gonna have to go mushroom hunting this year. Since we're having a legitimate winter, there should be enough moisture come springtime to facilitate things quite well.

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wrekkr wrote:
Cole Younger wrote:Gutshot, the great state of Georgia. Turkey hunting is a freaking addiction of mine. I love it. Those early season hunts when it is still real cool in the morning are the best. They gobble better then too of course. And yall can't hunt until late April? That sucks. That's snake boot weather.

wrekker, those are some dang nice bucks. I'll put you on a Georgia gobbler if I can come deer hunting up there. :D


Well, I used to get into turkey hunting a lot when I was younger but over the years I've lost interest and have come to think of turkeys more as a nuisance than anything so I'm not all up on turkey hunting. First off here it costs ~$32 to hunt them and the meat is marginal at best. The downside is that since they were "introduced" here the result has been the complete dissappeared of ruffed grouse. I can hunt ruffed grouse for free and they tasted way awesome, plus Gauge gets to go hunting with me. Before the turkeys took off you could always here the grouse drumming all over the hills and in a two hour hike through the timber, even without a dog you could have anywhere from 20-50 flushes. It was mad birds everywhere. I would't got out without atleast two boxes of shells in my hunting vest. I haven't seen or heard a grouse in the last three years there. The turkeys out forrage the grouse and also the turkeys provide more food for the predators like eagles, hawks and coyotes. So the predators have increased dramatically, inbetween eating turkeys they just have hammered the native grouse to obliteration. That said, anyone who wants to come to the shakk and shoot as many turkeys as you can get tags for, more than welcome.
Now, on to the deer hunting. If you want to bow hunt and shoot a dow or a cull deer I'd be open to that. But, I've spent the last fifteen years managing the property for trophy whitetail. I've eaten my gun buck tag every year except for two when I've shot nice wall mounters and this year was the first year I have ever tagged a buck with my bow tag. I've had some friends down to bow hunt before, but gun hunting is out of the question. THe only people who get to gun hunt is myself, my brother and Cotter. Cotter has helped me with a ton of projects and hooking me up with useful things and is on target with the management of the whitetail that I am trying to do there.


I was joking more than anything else. I've got all the deer I can possibly handle on our family farm and we manage ours as far as bucks too so...
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gutshot wrote:Wrekkr,
The way you feel about turkeys is the same way we feel about hogs around here. Outsiders see them as a treasure because they don't have as many of them or any at all in some cases. We just consider them a nuisance. They ruin our deer hints and terrorize our turkey nesting. I've had people offer to trade me turkey hunts for hog hunts. I just want to get rid of them.


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Dang it man, you beat me to it. I was reading wrekker's anti turkey post and was thinking "That's how I feel about hogs."

We've been lucky as far as not having them up until recently. This past deer season we started getting trail cam pictures of them and have killed a few. But the last trail cam pic we got showed three pregnant sows. It's all over but the shouting. They just reproduce too dang fast.

I used to run them with dogs and catch them live back in my early 20s when I had more balls than I had sense. I don't know what we are gonna do to get rid of them and I doubt we'll be able to.

My brother in law has them on his farm and they absolutely shredded his peanut crop last year. He shot hogs every single day and didn't even put a dent in the population. They are pests.
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gutshot wrote:Wrekkr,
The way you feel about turkeys is the same way we feel about hogs around here. Outsiders see them as a treasure because they don't have as many of them or any at all in some cases. We just consider them a nuisance. They ruin our deer hints and terrorize our turkey nesting. I've had people offer to trade me turkey hunts for hog hunts. I just want to get rid of them.


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Damn, is that thing as big and mean as it looks?
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Clams wrote:
gutshot wrote:Wrekkr,
The way you feel about turkeys is the same way we feel about hogs around here. Outsiders see them as a treasure because they don't have as many of them or any at all in some cases. We just consider them a nuisance. They ruin our deer hints and terrorize our turkey nesting. I've had people offer to trade me turkey hunts for hog hunts. I just want to get rid of them.


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Damn, is that thing as big and mean as it looks?


YES!! And their tusks are sharp as razors. Like I said, back when I was in my early 20s and thought I was bad, I used to run these things with dogs. You turn a group of dogs loose, usually on the edge of a field near a creek or river bottom. They bay the hog up, meaning they circle him, and bark and holler and carry on until you and the catch dog get there. Catch dogs are almost exclusively pit bulls beecause of the their power combined with their compact build and their ultra aggressiveness.

The catch dog goes after the hog, latches onto him while you and a couple of buddies move in, grab the hog by the back legs, flip him on his side, and tie his back legs together.

It can go real wrong in a hurry. It's not uncommon at all for a boar around here to get way north of 300 pounds. And they are not slow AT ALL. And a cornered, angry boar is a scary thing.
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There's been some hog troubles in Southern Iowa. I don't know if they will get this far north, but I sure hope not. They aren't native this far north, but they've been following up the Mississippi and Missouri tributaries. Most of the state doesn't have enough cover for them, but river bottoms sure do.

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I'm trying to do my part: I order wild boar whenever i see it on the menu.
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beantownbubba wrote:I'm trying to do my part: I order wild boar whenever i see it on the menu.


Me too, but I don't plan on ever going near one.
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Clams wrote:Damn, is that thing as big and mean as it looks?



Well, he WAS. This one in particular was about 200 lbs but he ended up getting the EZ Dan treatment. That's what some hunters (and non-hunters) seem to forget. Hogs can be bad-ass in certain situations, especially when you're catching them like Cole Younger was talking about...but there ain't anything in the woods as big and mean as a dude with a gun.
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Tequila Cowboy wrote:
beantownbubba wrote:I'm trying to do my part: I order wild boar whenever i see it on the menu.


Me too, but I don't plan on ever going near one.


Now you've managed to make me hungry in this thread also. :lol:

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I could probably fill a Jeep or two up with some that would be more than happy to help out with any feral hog or wild boar "problems" any has.

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We got tons of wild hogs here. In fact, ya'll remember 'Hogzilla'? He wasn't actually a wild hog, but farm raised here in good ol' Fruithurst, not two miles from my house (the only time you would hear Fruithurst in a national story since the '70's when everybody knew about us). Regardless, he was still a monster...

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Having grown up on a hog farm, I've seen some big sumbitches.

But Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. That thing is incredible. That has to be the record.

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For you turkey guys, Northeast Iowa is prime turkey ground. If you ever make it up this way to hunt, beer's on me.

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Saw this herd of Roosevelt Elk today.


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Pulled these off of my camera yesterday afternoon. I can't wait to put my foot on one's head.



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I've never been turkey hunting; was seriously contemplating getting into it but the only shotgun I have is a .410 and I seriously doubt it has the range to cleanly kill a turkey.
I do have a Rossi .243 that's barrel is interchangeable with a 20 gauge; would that be ideal for an inexperienced turkey hunter? Or should I just hold out until I can get a 12 or 16 gauge?
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Smitty wrote:I've never been turkey hunting; was seriously contemplating getting into it but the only shotgun I have is a .410 and I seriously doubt it has the range to cleanly kill a turkey.
I do have a Rossi .243 that's barrel is interchangeable with a 20 gauge; would that be ideal for an inexperienced turkey hunter? Or should I just hold out until I can get a 12 or 16 gauge?

Most turkey loads are 12 ga in 3" or 3.5" containing BB, 2 , or 4 shot. I think you would have to have them in very close to be lethal with a 20 ga on a big tom, like 15 yards or less and then you may just wound them. The 3.5" loads are probably lethal to 50+ yards. I have heard stories of guys rolling big toms with a 12 ga and the bird gets up and will fly away.

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