I cut mine up as soon as I can get it done. The doe I took this year and entered in the contest, I shot in the morning and had in the fridge by 4pm. If it's really cold, I'll let it go a day or two until I can get to it, otherwise I value it too much to take a chance on spoilage.
Had a small basket 7 and a basket 6 come by me this morning not within range and not that it would have mattered since I don't have another buck tag until rifle. Also had a small doe come by me,but with 20 mph winds and only getting as close as 50 yards I couldn't take the shot. Back out at it this afternoon good luck to everyone else hunting tonight.
If the weather is going to be in the 40s or cooler at night...I hang mine 4-5 days...sometimes 6. Does wonders for it imo....folks that taste mine can't ever tell it's deer....aging allows the bacteria to go to work on the muscle tissue, which does 2 things. It breaks down the muscle fibers and makes it more tender...and it relaxes them which allows as much blood (and gamey taste) as possible to drain out of it. Wild game is all we eat in our house..No meat from a store in 5 years!
Ha! Yeah it seems like it. One more chance at Pa next Saturday, then it's Ohio only to try and get a buck.
Ended up seeing 4 deer, 2 small 6 pointers and 2 doe. Watched the buck fight in my food plot for a good 10 minutes, not an all out battle to the death but they were definitely fighting...first time I've ever seen anything like that. We're supposed to get some rain/snow for the morning so we'll see if that bumps the activity up a little bit.
I didn't hunt this evening , was on the combine but I went out this morning. Didn't have anything good happen this morning either. I got to see the buck I named Bone-afide. He was standing out in the field on my property right next to the highway...and a truck (bowhunter) parked right across the highway from him. I stopped and beat the side of my truck through the window and ran them further over on us away from the highway. I don't know if they were going that way or if they had been spooked off of the neighbors property by the hunters over there but around here if the stupid sob stands that close to the highway more than once he's going to get poached. He and his doe were about three hundred yards across the field from where I had sat in a stand from 5 am to 10 am this morning...ugh, frustrating season.
I had a nice 8 pointer (bonus buck) 22 yards from my stand this morning...I wasn't in it. Lesson learned!
Isn't that how it works though, Josh? I have Friday and Saturday to hunt...and we're supposed to get lake effect snow. Not really looking forward to that! DH will be hunting in a different state and got someone else for me to take hunting. Well, now I cannot decide where to sit. Do I stay in the same one I've seen a few deer at? Do I move to the back and just sit on the ground (That'll depend on snow). Do I go to my original stand - move to my Grandfathers stand? Ugh. If they get a deer and I don't I'll be mad. I just cannot figure out a pattern these deer have.
Thanks. I went back and edited and added Team 2. Then I noticed I also had Team 2 in my signature too. all set now.
They want it in the entry post is the only reason I mentioned it. Signatures don't show up in Tapatalk which is what a lot of folks use to view the forum from their phone or tablet. So better safe than sorry .
Finally! After a frustrating season...misses...etc. my wife killed her first buck with a bow last night. Made a 30 yard shot on a 2 year old 9pt in one of my clover plots. She broke both shoulders and still got an exit wound. He got tangled in a fence after a40 yard run and died within seconds. Very proud of her....
