Author Topic: First Montana Buck (Read 905 times)

Ripsnort · « **Reply #15 on:** November 10, 2004, 08:14:08 AM »

Nice Buck!:aok

Reschke · « **Reply #16 on:** November 10, 2004, 08:51:25 AM »

Nice bodied deer but a little small on that 8 point (as we call 'em down here in Alabama).

My dad killed an 8 point on Christmas Eve of 1986 that weighed a little over 250 lbs field dressed down here. I have killed several small antlered bucks in the 190-200 range down here as well. Alot of times it depends on the area that you hunt in like Central Alabama (aka the black belt) which has some outstanding farms and wooded wetland areas where the deer like to feed before going to hang out in the pine plantations all night.

Yeager · « **Reply #17 on:** November 10, 2004, 08:51:42 AM »

DEER ARE HIMMLER!!!!!!!!OH JEEBUS!!!!!

Suave · « **Reply #18 on:** November 10, 2004, 11:53:57 AM »

Nice white tail ! See any Muleys ?

SunTracker · « **Reply #19 on:** November 10, 2004, 11:58:40 AM »

Just out of curiosity, how much does it cost to get a deer butchered into steaks?

Is that something a hunter can do himself, or is it always professionally done?

Howitzer · « **Reply #20 on:** November 10, 2004, 01:37:33 PM »

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Originally posted by SunTracker
Just out of curiosity, how much does it cost to get a deer butchered into steaks?

Is that something a hunter can do himself, or is it always professionally done?

Normally (at least in Illinois) you can just take the dressed deer to the locker, and they will even skin it for you. The processing fee is 30-40 bucks, and they will de-bone and cut it up for you how you want it. What costs extra money is if you want to get it made into jerky or slimjims or something to that extent. Then it is so much a pound for them to make it, and whatever the pork costs that they mix with it.

I have de-boned a few in my time, and even helped quite a few guys make their own sausage and whatnot, but I'd much rather just field dress the sucker and drop it off at the locker... quite a bit of work if you do it yourself.

Howitzer · « **Reply #21 on:** November 10, 2004, 01:38:48 PM »

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Originally posted by AKS\/\/ulfe
Bucks are too tough, I prefer some nice tender fawn meat.
-SW

The white spots are just something to aim at. LOL

Great buck BTW! Congratulations. I haven't been able to go out much this year, and I didn't even get a shotgun permit... You cheaters and your rifles LOL

indy007 · « **Reply #22 on:** November 10, 2004, 01:47:24 PM »

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Originally posted by SunTracker
Just out of curiosity, how much does it cost to get a deer butchered into steaks?

Is that something a hunter can do himself, or is it always professionally done?

I love venison, but I disagree with shooting something that isn't shooting back. Not much sport to it. Skill? Yes. Patience? In the extreme. Challenging? Can be... but I'll still stick with paintball. So instead of sitting in a blind for hours on end, I just order it online. Buffalo is really good too. Healthier than regular beef, tastes better imho, just hard to find a restaraunt that serves it. If you can find Beefalo.. oh yeah, then you're in for some good eatin'.

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Furball · « **Reply #23 on:** November 10, 2004, 01:50:49 PM »

Ripsnort · « **Reply #24 on:** November 10, 2004, 01:53:33 PM »

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Originally posted by Furball

You'd be sadder yet if you ever seen 'em starving to death in mid-winter. Consider it mercy-population-control.

SOB · « **Reply #25 on:** November 10, 2004, 01:59:41 PM »

You promise us hottie pics, and all you deliver is dead animals. You disgust me.

<-- kind of.

Suave · « **Reply #26 on:** November 10, 2004, 04:51:32 PM »

Indy007 if he got that in the Montana rockies it's a safe bet he wasn't sitting on his bellybutton in a blind. Tracking and hunting in the rockies can be exhausting and challenging. Especially when you've got to bring the dead animal off the mountain. Although he could've just shot it from his living room window for all I know. I know people who have done that in montana, lol.

Now that I'm in texas I have zero interest in deer hunting. Which down here means, putting out a corn feeder all year, and then when hunting season opens, drive out to the feeder and wait for the deer to show up.

But still that's better than buying your meat from an animal factory. Where the animals only see the light of day when they are herded from one building into the slaughter machinery in another building.

Bison, I've tried it, it's good, but I just don't feel comfortable consuming that animal for various reasons. Bring me one that was picked off from a huge herd on a Nebraska prarie, then I'll eat bison.

Lizking · « **Reply #27 on:** November 10, 2004, 05:07:47 PM »

They don't hunt them here, they harvest them, but it has to be done, regardless.

As for having it processed, unless you like lots of deer hair in your sausage, you should at least skin and quarter it. It is a chore to butcher a couple of deer, though, espeically if you are making sausage out of a lot of it, but it is well worth it.

Cost here to turn 50# of butchered, de-boned deer into 70/30 sausage (they provide the pig), is about 150$ for 40-odd rings, about the same as buying regular sausage rings.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #28 on:** November 10, 2004, 05:18:19 PM »

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Originally posted by Suave
Indy007 if he got that in the Montana rockies it's a safe bet he wasn't sitting on his bellybutton in a blind. Tracking and hunting in the rockies can be exhausting and challenging. Especially when you've got to bring the dead animal off the mountain. Although he could've just shot it from his living room window for all I know. I know people who have done that in montana, lol.

Now that I'm in texas I have zero interest in deer hunting. Which down here means, putting out a corn feeder all year, and then when hunting season opens, drive out to the feeder and wait for the deer to show up.

But still that's better than buying your meat from an animal factory. Where the animals only see the light of day when they are herded from one building into the slaughter machinery in another building.

Bison, I've tried it, it's good, but I just don't feel comfortable consuming that animal for various reasons. Bring me one that was picked off from a huge herd on a Nebraska prarie, then I'll eat bison.

My Montana hunting experiences:

White tail you have to "hunt", push 'em around the river edges and creeks.

Muley's you drive up to a herd and pick out your deer.

Elk you bust a nut and 1 of 3 times you *might* get one.

indy007 · « **Reply #29 on:** November 10, 2004, 05:24:25 PM »

I never said it was easy. It's just not for me

If i'm walking through the woods, and a deer jumps out from behind a tree holding a .45, then I might change my mind, should I survive long enough. However, lacking opposable thumbs, I don't forsee a deer gunning me down in my prime.

I don't have anything against hunting, nor hunters, I love fresh venison, but I don't have a problem getting my meat straight from the slaughterhouse either. The difference is, I'd much rather be slogging up & down the mountain at EMR in Pennsylvania, at 1am, with PVS-7 goggles clipped into place, stalking live people, who have their own paintball guns, and nowadays, their own NVG. If I mess up, make a sound, get backlit, there's a reasonable chance I'm going to eat alot of paintballs, and it's not going to be pleasant. On the flipside, if I'm hunting something for "sport" that isn't hunting me back... what's the point?