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Title: Heading to the hills.
Post by: shooter32 on October 14, 2008, 08:58:11 AM
2008 Elk hunt. ;D
Leave Thursday morning to set up camp. We have 3 cow tags and 2 bull tags. Hope to fill up the freezer this year.
I look forward to this time of year to HEAD TO THE HILLS!!!
Nothing like the Colorado high country.
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: Hazcat on October 14, 2008, 09:02:21 AM
DAMN YOU!


;D

Have a good hunt and get some back straps on the ground!  What gun / caliber are you using?
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: shooter32 on October 14, 2008, 09:05:51 AM
Parker-Hale 30.06
Been using it for 30 years now.
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: Hazcat on October 14, 2008, 09:12:18 AM
Parker-Hale, VERY Nice!  and 30-06 is my favorite round.  If I had to choose just one rifle it would be a 30-06.
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: shooter32 on October 14, 2008, 09:24:16 AM
Parker-Hale, VERY Nice!  and 30-06 is my favorite round.  If I had to choose just one rifle it would be a 30-06.
My dad bought it new and handed it down to me. And I'm thinking of handing it down to my son.
I catch all kinds of crap from the guys I hunt with. They say I'm lobbing rounds with the arc of the .06.
They shot the big mags. 7mm mag and 300win mags. One other guy in camp shots a .06.

But in 30 years of elk and deer hunting it has never let me down. Hell the longest shot I've had to take was 43 yards.
So I tell them I shot in self defence ;D
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: Hazcat on October 14, 2008, 09:37:22 AM
Lobbing rounds!?

Our GIs used to 'Lob Rounds' with the .06 out to 500 yards great efficiency quite regularly!
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: shooter32 on October 14, 2008, 11:19:43 AM
It's all in good fun. Ammo prices and the fact I can find .06 ANYWHERE is enough for me.
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: PegLeg45 on October 14, 2008, 01:28:50 PM
Same here on the 30-06....damn good cartridge (my all around favorite rifle round) .....plenty enough round to do the job.
Good luck on your hunt..... hunt safely.........hope you fill the tags and the freezer.

:)
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: DDMac on October 14, 2008, 03:54:30 PM
Since my hunt this year will be limited to coyotes in the yard, I'd appreciate some real hunt pictures when you get back. Please!!

Mac.
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: TSB on October 14, 2008, 04:19:47 PM
Same here on the 30-06....damn good cartridge (my all around favorite rifle round) .....plenty enough round to do the job.
Good luck on your hunt..... hunt safely.........hope you fill the tags and the freezer.

:)


Been a damn good round for 102 years and I'm sure it will be for another 102!  It was recently voted one of the best all-round cartridges in history.  Have a blast!
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: shooter32 on October 15, 2008, 08:56:16 AM
Thanks guys!!
It's all ways great to just get away. The unit I'm going to has a huge elk herd. DOW has to thin the herd, so we should fill some tags, if not all of them. 

I will take some pics to post when I get back.
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: Hazcat on October 16, 2008, 05:51:02 PM
Shooter is probably in camp right now!  Damn, wish I could get some time to go.

Fresh meat!
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: TSB on October 16, 2008, 07:06:42 PM
Shooter is probably in camp right now!  Damn, wish I could get some time to go.

Fresh meat!

Have you ever had Elk Haz?

Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: Hazcat on October 16, 2008, 07:20:04 PM
Nope.  Deer, Buff, and a lot of other stuff but no elk.
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: Big Frank on October 16, 2008, 07:29:11 PM
Venison is venison. It doesn't matter if it's deer, elk, or moose. It's all good. Mmmm.
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: Hazcat on October 16, 2008, 07:31:03 PM
Venison is venison. It doesn't matter if it's deer, elk, or moose. It's all good. Mmmm.

That's what I figured.

Room for all Gods' creatures...right beside the mashed taters! ;D
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: TSB on October 16, 2008, 07:31:23 PM
I had some frozen years ago but I think fresh would be a completely different culinary experience.  I didn't care for it much but that ain't saying much...It was probably the cook (me) :P
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: TSB on October 16, 2008, 07:40:33 PM
All this talk of meat has me thinking of ordering some Ostrich.  Great steaks, lean, tasty, yum, yum...Gonna do it right now.....
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: Hazcat on October 16, 2008, 07:41:09 PM
All this talk of meat has me thinking of ordering some Ostrich.  Great steaks, lean, tasty, yum, yum...Gonna do it right now.....

Where?
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: TSB on October 16, 2008, 07:56:27 PM
Where?

http://www.blackwing.com/landing_full.php?cmc=1006&afc=google&gclid=CNKR98GFrZYCFQFqxwod52_kyw (http://www.blackwing.com/landing_full.php?cmc=1006&afc=google&gclid=CNKR98GFrZYCFQFqxwod52_kyw)
http://www.healthybuffalo.com/index.html (http://www.healthybuffalo.com/index.html)

Here is two but I've only ordered from Blackwing...Bon Apetit....
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: PegLeg45 on October 16, 2008, 08:55:50 PM
I had some frozen years ago but I think fresh would be a completely different culinary experience.  I didn't care for it much but that ain't saying much...It was probably the cook (me) :P

Game meat is all in the prep before freezing or cooking. It's got to be kept on ice for a week and bled-out before processing or you get that 'wild, gamey flavor. But some folks like it that way, though I ain't one of them.

Love me some deer sausage....
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: TSB on October 16, 2008, 09:00:36 PM
Game meat is all in the prep before freezing or cooking. It's got to be kept on ice for a week and bled-out before processing or you get that 'wild, gamey flavor. But some folks like it that way, though I ain't one of them.

Love me some deer sausage....


Maybe that's it PegLeg.  I didin't put it up, someone gifted it too me.  It had a real strange taste.  I love the elk jerky I buy on occasion.  Maybe I'll give it another try.  Blackwing sells elk, bison, ostrich and several game birds as well.
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: Big Frank on October 16, 2008, 09:16:32 PM
Any meat from beef to venison is best if it's hung to age for several days. I believe the right temperature is above 32 F but below 40 F. I remember when we had home-grown corn-fed organic beef quartered and hanging in the garage for what seemed like a week or two. Bacteria and maybe some other microscopic critters partially digest it before we do and that makes it tender. Also if a game animal runs a long way before it dies it will be gamey. Lactic acid builds up in the muscles just like a person when you run far enough to feel the burn. Other that that it just needs to be bleed out and hung, although some people like to throw a pair of venison backstraps in the frying pan while it still warm.
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: TSB on October 16, 2008, 09:19:53 PM
Breakfast at the camp...Backstrap, heart and liver with a few eggs over easy and some taters in bacon grease.....My heart is slowing down as I type this....

My uncle has 1000 acres up near Leroy....
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: blackwolfe on October 16, 2008, 09:47:44 PM
Couple years ago at deer camp in the U. P. the neighbors came over with warm backstrap that was cooked immediately in the fry pan.  Simply the best.  What made it even better was it was the neighbor's 15 year old son's first deer.
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: Teresa Heilevang on October 19, 2008, 10:33:31 PM
Fresh backstrap..fried taters and onions and hot biscuits....over a campfire at deer camp ( and yessss I go to the guys deer camp sometimes..  ;) ) They just act like I am "one of them"..

scary huh? hahahaha
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: Hazcat on October 20, 2008, 09:24:20 AM
Did shooter say how long he'd be gone?

I'm waitin' to DROOL over some good pixs.  ;D
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: PegLeg45 on October 21, 2008, 01:27:01 PM
Did shooter say how long he'd be gone?

I'm waitin' to DROOL over some good pixs.  ;D

Opening day in south Georgia.........good medium to large doe killed by my son's best friend..... :)

Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: Hazcat on October 21, 2008, 01:32:54 PM
YUM!!!!

I see they have their knives ready but tell them it tastes better cooked.  ;)

;D
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: PegLeg45 on October 21, 2008, 01:35:31 PM
YUM!!!!

I see they have their knives ready but tell them it tastes better cooked.  ;)

;D

Well, I tried.
But you know young folks these days.
You send 'em to school, pay for the books, and....well...you know........ ;D
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: tombogan03884 on October 22, 2008, 02:49:08 AM
Well, I tried.
But you know young folks these days.
You send 'em to school, pay for the books, and....well...you know........ ;D

They use the paper to start a fire and cook something  ;D
 Nice Doe.
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: shooter32 on October 23, 2008, 09:50:14 AM
Did shooter say how long he'd be gone?

I'm waitin' to DROOL over some good pixs.  ;D

Well no elk for me :(
Only one guy in camp got his tag filled. 4x5 bull. He shot it the day I left so didn't get any pics.
We were camped high 10.347 ft. because there was very little snow. They (elk) should have been there but ened up being alot lower and on private land. >:(
We did have moose in our camp every day. Did get some pics of the moose.
I'll try to post some pics in the next day or so.
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: Hazcat on October 23, 2008, 09:54:18 AM
Sorry to hear that my friend.  Any plans for another hunt?
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: shooter32 on October 23, 2008, 10:02:04 AM
Sorry to hear that my friend.  Any plans for another hunt?

Not until next year for elk and deer. But goose,ducks pheasants and hope to do some coyote huntin as well.
I had a great time anyway ;D

Time for the ol shotgun to come out.
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: Hazcat on October 23, 2008, 10:09:47 AM
Well that's why they call it 'hunting' not.....well. something else. ;)

Marshal mentioned to me he is waiting for some new equipment (not sure what) to go hunt some yotes.  I asked him(and I got the same question for you) how do ya cook 'em?  ;D
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: shooter32 on October 23, 2008, 10:51:34 AM
Well that's why they call it 'hunting' not.....well. something else. ;)

Marshal mentioned to me he is waiting for some new equipment (not sure what) to go hunt some yotes.  I asked him(and I got the same question for you) how do ya cook 'em?  ;D

COOK 'EM :o I'd have to be DAMN hungery to eat'em.
Must be a cat thing ;D

I'd like to know what new equipment Marshal is getting. Any new stuff that helps is a good thing.
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: Hazcat on October 23, 2008, 11:38:29 AM
COOK 'EM :o I'd have to be DAMN hungery to eat'em.
Must be a cat thing ;D

I'd like to know what new equipment Marshal is getting. Any new stuff that helps is a good thing.

Give him a PM.

As far as cooking, Marshal said M'ette had a recipe that called for wrapping it in hazcat hide!  :o
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: PegLeg45 on October 23, 2008, 12:03:49 PM
As far as cooking, Marshal said M'ette had a recipe that called for wrapping it in hazcat hide!  :o

Wouldn't that make it even tougher to chew?
 ;D ;D
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: Hazcat on October 23, 2008, 12:12:32 PM
Well, at least furrier.  ;D
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: ericire12 on October 23, 2008, 12:55:26 PM
YUM!!!!

I see they have their knives ready but tell them it tastes better cooked.  ;)

;D

Deer Sushi?  ;D
Title: Re: Heading to the hills.
Post by: Big Frank on October 24, 2008, 04:07:25 AM
Deer Sushi?  ;D

Venison Steak Tartare?  ???