Fact: skinning the skull is much harder than any other bone on a deer's body.
QFT. Especially around the antlers.
Fact: skinning the skull is much harder than any other bone on a deer's body.
QFT. Especially around the antlers.
That's skin. I don't have a pot deep enough to boil the whole thing, so I'm going back and forth between the pressure washer and the Victorinox. Fact: skinning the skull is much harder than any other bone on a deer's body.
You need this knife and a medium scalpel. Easy breezy.
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That's skin. I don't have a pot deep enough to boil the whole thing, so I'm going back and forth between the pressure washer and the Victorinox. Fact: skinning the skull is much harder than any other bone on a deer's body.
it sucks worse to not have any support for the activity you love (hunting), and have it get hampered by anti's. The more people you can get to enjoy hunting, the better chance you have to keep doing it.
This x1000. Wish people would get it through their skulls that more hunters is only good for hunting.
it sucks worse to not have any support for the activity you love (hunting), and have it get hampered by anti's. The more people you can get to enjoy hunting, the better chance you have to keep doing it.
This x1000. Wish people would get it through their skulls that more hunters is only good for hunting.
Absolutely. But can wish those more hunters hunted somewhere else
Got off work a little early. Got my stand in a tree in my back woods. Got right back down to clear a bit better of a lane and went right back up. I watched a couple of does about 30 minutes before sunset work across my creek and up my hill to munch the corn in my side yard. Didn’t come within 60yds of me.
And of course no clue is anything is moving by my stand. I moved both my game cameras near it pointed different directions. One captured nothing except my ugly face. Not really expecting much. It has a fairly short trigger range and it was a fairly faint hope anything used the trail I put it right off of in the last 3 days. Other camera captured nothing. It wasn’t working with the memory card for whatever reason. Swapped cards and it’s working with the new one. I found a few fresh deer prints in among the leaves 6yds from the camera where I’d scattered a bit of corn along that deer trail two days ago and no corn.
I know deer use the trail sometimes and the perpendicular trail out of range of that first game camera I’ve got all the deer on that camera when it had been right near the perpendicular trail. Tons of does. Buttons. A spike. A sad fork. A five, a really mature 7 with very thick bases. And a nice 6.
But nothing that wanted to head by this evening. In fairness almost all the movement among both trails seems to be over night and in the morning with the occasional mid day. Not sure I’ve seen any late afternoon or evening movement on it (nothing between about 2pm and 7pm).
Just looking for a 3+ pts on one side buck. Freezer is pretty full so it is going to a friend who needs venison. that said, yeah if a doe walked right under my stand I might take her. But I don’t need to go sit on my corn which is almost always does and the little bucks. Never have larger bucks go up there. They just move up and down the path by my creek.
I’ll be out there all tomorrow hopefully.
What better way to spend Veteran's Day than being out on public land watching Fall take place while waiting on an unsuspecting doe to walk by?
Jealous. I have to drive a whole 27 minutes to hunt. One day...Sitting in your backyard hoping for the same (or a big buck)?
Just wish my backyard was 10+ acres. Not 4.4 total. Ya work with whatcha got I guess.
Red are the main deer trails headed up to my side yard where does and little bucks like to munch corn and then perpendicular along my creek headed away from me in to the bamboo where they like to bed down for the day and towards/in front of me where they head out for other food sources.
I did have the big local fox swing by this morning on he rounds. Checking out my chickens on the uphill path. Then she circled behind me 45 minutes later and I scared the hell out of her when she looked up and saw me in the stand 10 feet away.
I am thinking this spring I might clear some of the saplings around the tree I am in and maybe plant a few crab apples here in the woods. Or something else that’ll attract deer that’ll grow okay in shade (persimmons?)
Jealous. I have to drive a whole 27 minutes to hunt. One day...
Plus hunting in my backyard means my wife can twist my arm more easily with stuff like “well today I need your help with X. So I need you to stop playing caveman and come in by 2 to help with it”.
If I am going hunting somewhere she just leaves me alone. Usually. Of course sometimes I can’t go hunting somewhere or it isn’t worth it because she really does need me for the morning or afternoon and I can’t skip out and I don’t want to drive 45 minutes round trip, plus the time to get in the woods and back out and what not. Just to hunt for a few hours. Like thanksgiving. Last couple of years I tried to get away to hunt for a day or two that week. Hell no! This year, yeah probably to going in to the backyard to hunt a few hours on a couple of days. So long as I am in by brunch time or I am going out after a late lunch till dusk.
I figure 12 acres gives me about the minimum to feel like I’ve got real space and then even if my neighbors are jerks, they can’t (legally) stop me from hunting my property. Cant QDMA that real well, but can still encourage deer to the property, have some options for where stands and blinds can go, etc.
The only deer I saw today was an 8 point. Saw it on the side of the road. Three hundred yards before I pulled into my spot to hunt, at 0530. That's frustrating.
I"m seeing WAAAAYY more dead dear on the side of the road than last few years.