DaveS

I put about 30 pounds of meat aside (I haven't added pork and pork fat yet) to make some more snack sticks and summer sausage. The bad thing about jerky (sliced whole muscle, not ground meat) it cost me 8 to 10  meals of roast, steaks, stew meat and burger, for a decent batch of jerky. Jerky is good and all but right now we're benefiting better from the meals. If I get another, then I'll make some jerky. I've never had deer jerky made from burger, but it doesn't sound good.   Dave

Maybe I should have said (add music here) "A doe, a deer, a female deer"...lol   Or titled the thread "Hoe's", "Doe's" maybe something else. Heck it even confuses me and I wrote it!   Thank You   Dave

I just read where the Robertson family may be leaving A&E.   Dave

I hear ya Ron!   Dave

I haven't seen you on here in a while and wondered what happened to you.   Dave

And "tnguy", he didn't even get that right! Dave

Ron; I actually live down 79 in the Woodlawn/Dotsonville area.   Dave

That's special brother! Dave

Oh you know it is....He owes his Lawyers 2.5 Million dollars, Owes his ex old lady a bunch, and Trayvons parents want to sue him for wrongful death of their son. A joke? I think not! Apparently to him it is. That boy Zimmerman needs to disappear like a coat of paint on the wall and keep his a** as quite and out of sight as he can. He's setting himself up for major failure!   Dave

Good! The lawyers, ex wife and Trayvons Parents can come after him and get what's owed them! He's fixing to get his a** sued off him! Come on George...paint some more.   Dave

You are absolutely right about the neck shots. Good hit = dead deer. No hit = missed deer. I would like to add that if you hit high on a deer's neck, you may draw some blood but the deer will recover quickly (flesh wound), hit low on the neck and you may have to blood trail a few yards because you hit the wind pipe and the deer has to suffocate. If you shoot and miss all together, we're going to laugh at you! (j/k)   EDITED: These shots I just described are for deer standing broadside to the shooter.   Dave

Well, good luck to ya Brother!   Dave

Who's Greg Chen? Popular fella is he?   Dave

They big doe I hit at the base of the neck just above the shoulders, center as she was facing me. Dropped her and she kicked her legs a time or two and expired very quickly (I'm glad). Neither were breathing for more than a few seconds after hitting the ground.   The smaller of the two, took the round about midway up the neck. Again..."Stop, Drop and Flop". She never really kicked that I recall.   I've never had a deer (or pig for that matter) run after being shot in the neck. Aim and shoot "center mass" of the neck is my experience. The big doe, I had to aim a little lower, because if I aimed center of her neck, there was a slight risk of hitting her in the face. Something I would never want to do.   Dave

Yep and jerky. Thinking about some slim jims this time around too.   Dave

They seem to be hard to come by this year for some reason. By this time last year, I had several in the freezer to last me all year.   Dave

Merry Christmas to you too Sir.   Dave

Best of my memory yes.   Dave

Congrats to you! Apply yourself, and you'll go far in that field.   Dave

Thank you Sir!

Well, after a couple weeks absence from deer hunting due to leg and back issues, I finally made it back out yesterday. I was in my ladder stand and at about 7:30 a Mature Doe came running down the hill in front of me being chased by a very nice Buck. I raised the rifle up to get a shot at the Buck and big mamma slammed on the brakes and started blowing at me. The buck spun around and disapered and a third deer headed for the next county. The doe stood looking at me and blowing. I swung the crosshairs on her neck and fired. She dropped straight to the ground. NICE! So I sat in my stand for about 10 minutes and was tying my rifle to my pull cord, when this other Doe came bee bopping down the side of the hill. It stopped and was staring at the first doe laying on the ground. NITE NITE! Neck shot and DRT!! Both deer required an uphill drag and I was really not up to it. I went up to a neighbors house and got Jason (teen ager who lives there) to help me get them out of the woods. I threw the kid 10 bucks for his troubles (all I had on me). He was grateful and so was I. I wish I would have gotten a picture as he was wearing a pair of Firefighter boots, tee shirt and Sponge Bob jammy pants....kids..... Those were the first deer to come off my property this year. I wished I had a good hunting partner, but I don't. Life is what it is! This mature Doe dressed at 103. Lots of meat there boys! Here is a pic of me with both deer. Smaller deer dressed at 62 pounds. Neck shot DRT Both were taken with 7mm/08 120 grain Fusion soft nose. PS...Santa beard comes off day after Christmas thank goodness!!! Merry Christmas to all! Dave

If anyone of us witnessed this, what would we have done? I know what I would have done. You know, feeling in danger and all, and the "third party" law and all....   DaveS

I'm almost thinking the Mod's want a little of the action too!   Dave

George Zimmerman has this one beat!   ;)   Dave

That looks complicated! Sure looks good though and you can't beat cooking venison with bacon or caul fat.   DaveS