Tagged one for my mom's freezer early this morning. I got up early, but they were already grazing. It was light, but not sunrise yet. He is no monster, but he's fat and looked very healthy. A blessing.
Got a big buck today. Just not the way I would have liked to. Got it all taped up, time to get estimates.
About 90% of the estimates I have done in the last couple months have been deer hits. Tuscarawas county for most of them.
That doesn’t surprise me, Tuscawaras and Coshocton county harvest the most deer in the state year after year.
Muzzleloader opens tomorrow through Tuesday and he's starting to make mistakes. Plus the weather will be ideal.
This is the best part of deer season for me. Roughly enough ground burger for the year for tacos, chili, etc. And I got 10 lbs in my new dehydrator, drying out some jerky.
Another doe for the freezer. It was getting close to dark and neither of the 3 deer were giving me a good shot. Went for a chest shot and the doe dipped her head and resulted in a neck shot. Dropped where she stood, followed up with another shot. It really did a number on the broadhead. Good weather, I’ll cut it up tomorrow.
No way I'd be bow hunting in weather like this, and assuming what it's like there. The deer won't be frozen tomorrow?
I’ll take frozen over rancid. Last deer I shot it was 59 when I got done cutting it up. It was a race to get it into the freezer. I’ll get it parted out tomorrow no problem. I prefer grinding meat almost frozen anyway.
I remember doing that in my college days. Hung a deer in the barn, thinking I'd process in a day or so. Didn't think about how cold it was gonna get (other than being cold enough for it to hang). Went down there to process it, and it was a rock. Had to wait a couple more days for it to thaw enough to cut.
Hide came off not so bad, around the legs took some cutting and pulling with vice grips. Leaving the pajamas on kept the carcass from a full freeze. The shanks were the only thing frozen solid. Tons of fat to trim off. Ground everything but the tenderloin. I have a bunch of steaks from the last deer. I zeroed off the black bag, so all in all about 24.75 lb of ground.
They must feed them better out there. I can’t speak to your neck of the woods but around here they eat a lot of corn, hay & cattle mineral so it’s hard to envision them being fatter anywhere else but that one looks like an overly ripe market hog…
