Ground Venison: a Couple of Great Recipes
Filed under: Bow Hunting, Cooking, Deer Hunting, Holiday, Holiday Recipes, Hunting, Venison, Venison Cooking, Venison Recipes, recipe
VENISON MEATLOAF 1-1/2 lbs. Ground Venison (or "Deer Meat") 1 lb. Pork Sausage, or Ground Pork 2 eggs, lightly beaten or whipped 1 Cup Panko, or white-bread crumbs 1 large clove of garlic, pressed, mashed or finely chopped 1 teaspoon onion powder 1/2 cup finely diced or minced onion 1/4 cup finely diced or minced bell pepper 1/4 Cup diced or chopped Celery 1 teaspoon dried thyme 1 teaspoon sweet paprika Ground black pepper to taste 1 Tablespon A-1 steak sauce 1 package Onion Soup mix 1/2 cup milk 3 ounces (1-1/2 tablespoons) Catsup/Ketchup Glaze: 1/4 Cup catsup or Tomato Sauce 1 Tablespoon EACH: brown sugar and Steak Sauce, or Worchestershire Sauce Pre-heat oven to 450 degrees Mix meats together thoroughly. Beat together the...
Conversation with Jeff: on WMA’s, Public Land Hunting, Getting Started-”The Pass-Out Buck”
Filed under: Bow Hunting, Deer Hunting, Dogs, Gun, Hunting, Medium Game, Muzzle Loader, Primitive Weapon, Rifles, Scent, Weapon, Whitetail Trophy
I first met Jeffrey during the 2002-2003 deer season. He and my son were friends. They were about 18 years old and just graduated from high school. During visits, Jeff expressed interest in hunting, and would I take him out with me "sometime". I let him use a decent little rifle, a .44 magnum Marlin lever action with a 2.5X scope mounted and sighted-in, shooting 180 grain bullets at around 1800 fps-more than adequate out to 150 yards or so. I had Jeff take the Hunter Safety course, required by Mississippi state law for a license by hunters born after 1972,...
Trophy Whitetails: BIG BUCKS/High Dollar Business
Filed under: Bow Hunting, Deer Hunting, Gun, Hunting, Medium Game, Muzzle Loader, Preserves and Outfitters, Primitive Weapon, Rifles, Weapon, Whitetail Trophy
"BIG BUCKS", in all senses of the phrase-both the high dollar payouts by hunters, and the big income for the preserves and/or outfitters-and too, the reason for it all, the big whitetail bucks themselves: If YOU want one, be ready to spend, big time! I checked the websites of a couple of the better known pay-for-play preserves and outfitters. The approximate, average going rate for a decent trophy whitetail in the 145" Boone & Crockett size runs around $3,500.00 to $4,000.00 base cost. Add to that expense the mandatory tips, meat and trophy processing, non-resident licenses and fees, taxes, transportation to and from...
Hunting the Peak of the Rut: The DEFINITIVE How-To, Where-To, When-To
Filed under: Bow Hunting, Deer Hunting, Hunting, Medium Game, Uncategorized, Whitetail Rut
Technically, or physiologically, a whitetail buck is "in rut" from the instant his antler velvet is shed until he sheds his antlers in late winter/early spring. "O. K., then; enough already on the technical stuff, get on to the meat and 'taters: when is the PEAK?" We can't go there yet. The primary controlling factor of the rut in bucks, and more importantly, the estrus in does is a process known as "photoperiodism". Put as simply as possible, this is the angle of the sun's rays striking the deer's retina, causing the pineal gland to trigger testosterone release in bucks, and estrogen...
Whitetail Guns & Loads
Filed under: Deer Hunting, Gun, Hunting, Medium Game, Rifles, Weapon
This might have been entitled "Medium Game Guns & Loads", but my experience is 100% exclusive with whitetail deer hunting. Some or all of this may apply to pronghorns, mule deer, black bear. The theories and more or less "factual" data can have applications to ALL hunting with modern center-fire rifles and loads. Right off, I'm ruling out the "little" calibers: the .22 Long Rifle, .22 WMR, .22 Hornet, .218 Zipper, .219 Bee-all those smaller than the 5.56 mm's (.22-250 and .223). I am, though, aware, over the years, of deer that have been killed with these smaller caliber rule-outs, by jack-lighters, poachers,...
“The Devil’s in the Details”: Tips on Tactics
Often-all too often-overlooking or disregarding the most minute factor, the tiniest little detail, makes the difference in success or failure in the deer woods. The more we take care of the potential for mistakes or errors, that much more often we can look forward to having the chore of dragging out a fresh kill, even that once-in-a-lifetime trophy. I THINK I've learned from some do's and don'ts, mostly the mistakes I've made in my over 50 years of stand-perching, "easing and slipping", and stump-sitting. Skirt the Stand Many commercially available treestands, be they ladders, hang-ons or climbers have a rail around the...
More on Scent Control
Filed under: Bow Hunting, Deer Hunting, Hunting, Scent, Scent Control
Around 1965, during one of the first Bow Seasons in Mississippi, I was hunting a field edge on a private club "over the levee" in the Delta. The field was known as the "Pea Vine Field", as the club grew field peas there to attract and hold turkeys and deer, and provide extra nutrition. We found and noted the afternoon wind direction, and skirted the field on foot and out of sight to get to the down wind side to hide and hunt. I found a distinct, well-worn trail leading to and from the field, backed off 20 yards from the...
Scent Control (not “elimination”)
Filed under: Bow Hunting, Deer Hunting, Hunting, Scent, Scent Control
First thing to understand and accept is that human scent cannot be eliminated. We breathe, have moist eyes and ear canals and other "openings" in our bodies that constantly exude scent. The best we can do, therefore, is try to control or mask our "smell" to fool this number one whitetail sense. A whitetail can differentiate scent particles as few as 2 or 3 parts per million. To illustrate: if a gallon of pure, 100% deer urine were poured into an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a deer smelling the water could determine the sex, age, general physical condition, probable date of a doe's onset of...
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