Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Zuma on November 15, 2016, 08:25:55 pm
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I have waited for this morning since "blunderbuss" season opened. :)
It rained last night and the fog was a super heavy blanket. So I crushed
the persimmons all over my camo and boots and started stalking.
I knew where the big boy was hanging so I headed his way through the moss floored, maturing cedar forest. towards the High Grass Motel.
It is the first year the lower branches were suitable for semi quiet passage.
Still impossible with a bow though.
It was just a glorious early morning full of anticipation and the smell.
of the recent fallen leaves. Squirrels running past me with nuts in there mouths,
as if I weren't there. It was soft, soft and sweet.
Four hundred yards and slowing ascending the steep cliff side---
movement to the left and low, actually heading the way I came from.
It was the BIG BOY tail down and he took a left away from me. If his tail was up
I may have unloaded but the target was narrow and dim. He stopped and looked
at me over his shoulder at about 60 yards. I thought "till we meet again".
I am glad I was frozen with the sights on big boy when this guy silently slipped in
between, broadside.----Game over.
Errr well, not exactly. A two hundred yard drag for this old fart. And not all down hill.
Big Boy may have taken me out on that drag.
Zuma
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Did you chack to make sure you didn't get both of them? ;D ;D
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Congrats Don.
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All right! Way to go!!#
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Nice ! Bob
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Nice job,Nice deer and beautiful Rifle , question :-\ I see that a lot it seem mostly from folks up North, why the throat cutting, did you need to finish him off are is there another reason for it. Just curious.
Pappy
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DC LOL
That actually happened to me when I was a teen.
I shot a OO buckshot at a buck (legal) --One pellet went
straight through the heart of a doe behind the buck.
Not so legal.
I freaked out. I got help from my hunting trapping mentor
George. God bless you George, RIP
Thanks Rob, Orrum and Bob
Pappy, I slit the throat to bleed the deer initially.
I don't like to gut them until the draggin is done.
A lot of times I have to go and get the 4 wheeler
for part of the drag. Yep, all yankees I know do too.
Zuma
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Thanks, always wondered why. :) Who said Yankee's. ;) ;D ;D
Pappy
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Congrats on the deer.. Nice smoke pool..
Thanks Leroy
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Good eating right there. Congrats Zuma!
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Congratulations Zuma, smart thinking shooting the easier buck to drag. Pappy didn't know it was a northern thing. We always bleed out animals be it beef, pork, venison or chicken. Thought everybody did it that way.
Bjrogg
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PS if your head Hunting you bleed further down or not at all so you don't ruin cape. Meat hunting just like Zuma did it.
Bjrogg
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Pappy -Stoker
I do wish the thunder stick was mine. It's a fine gun.
I borrowed it from my buddy "Pickle" :)
Thanks Ed
BJ I had been talking to a neighbor friend about Big Boy.
He said something to the effect "Why would you kill such a majestic beast?" :'(
Perhaps that had something to do with big boy slipping by. Naw >:D
Zuma
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Congratulations, Don. Meat in the freezer.
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Thanks Eddie ;)
I am a meat hunter first. Like Ed an BJ noted. :laugh:
About two hours ago Big Boy could have been mine
at 350 yds but rifle season doesn't come in till Saturday.
I hope I can coax him Pickle's way. Tomorrow or Sat. ;)
Zuma
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Don never could fiqure out people cutting the throat on a dead animal , heart is not pumping so it's not going to bleed out anymore than if ya open up chest cavity, Taxidermist just love it :o Bob
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Congrats Don, fine eating deer.
I was shown to cut the throat when I first started hunting. I was told to bleed them out and they taste better. I think that is a carry over from hog butchering in the old days. They would shot them in the head and immediately hoist them and cut the throat to bleed them before removing the entrails. Not sure if it helps a deer or not but I no longer do it and doesn't seem to change the flavor, but I gut mine immediately. I think getting the meat cooled quickly is more important to the flavor.
Venison and an occasional bison cut is all the wife and I eat in red meat. Good stuff!
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If you cut jugular on a fresh killed animal especially if hung from rear legs believe me you get more than a little blood, it gushes out. Not really sure if it effects taste but it's the way we always prepared our animals. A deer that has been shot with a bow with a clean shot is probably not going to have much blood left. Like I said before didn't know it was a northern thing just though everybody did it
Bjrogg
Oh by the way Zuma nice deer. Did I tell you that as smart to shot the easy one to drag, oh yah I guess I did
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That is what I always figured also Bob. :)We do it with hogs but the are shot in the head with a 22 and before heart stops [just brain dead] we cut the juggler and man do the spew. :o Also lots of folks around here cut the tarsal glans off the hind legs, never seen any reason for doing that either, the critter is dead, nothing pumping. ;) Like a lot of things in this world, to each there own and if it make them happy then go for it. Could be right could be wrong or could make no difference at all. Anyway nice deer for sure and that will be some fine eating. ;)
Pappy
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Thanks Gents
" Also lots of folks around here cut the tarsal glans off the hind legs, never seen any reason for doing that either, the critter is dead, nothing pumping. "
LOL I always cut them out. It makes a great place to place a rope for dragin and hangin.
Also if you have ever gutted a rabbit you know how that gas etc. can get right into your system.
PEE U