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I got one too. Amazon China made but it works well for the $40 I spent.I bought a vacuum sealer this year great investment
Very Cool! CongratsGot my first deer ever on Saturday night, using archery equipment and a tree saddle. It was a tough season but so much fun and I learned a ton. I’m very happy to have some meat this year. Most likely 1.5 y.o. doe
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Went to try my hand at one more day of shotgun season until next year. I spent 5 hours and trekked 5 miles in the woods. Right when I was going to hang it up for the day I looked to my right on a logging road and the same shot presented itself as my first deer on Day 1. She was looking right at me from 50 yards through the woods by the shoreline but her entire body was visible this time. I took aim and shot right behind the shoulders. She jumped once and slumped down the embankment towards the water. I could tell it was a devastating vital shot with significant blood thrown. 2 more does hidden behind her lept up and scattered. She died within 10 seconds. I had to drag her out of the fractured ice.
Shot was through the right front shoulder, through the mediastinum, and out the other lung. The heart was almost clean shorn off it’s major vessels feeding the top. Saved the heart as the only organ meat. I made a very small field dress hole this time, drained, packed with snow, and strapped on my little cargo carrier for my CX-5.
Note to self: be careful reaching into the chest cavity after such a shot. The ribs are sharp.
We can still do a muzzleloader day. You chill and I’ll drive.Awesome. That’s two for your first season. Nicely done.
Yes, the ribs can be sharp. You need to be especially careful if you archery hunt. Make sure that you find your broadhead and make sure that you can account for the blades before you field dress the deer.
If you can’t find the broadhead assume that it is inside the deer and be very careful field dressing the deer. I have seen blades break off inside the deer as well as the entire head being inside the deer.
This year is a first for me in over 35 years of hunting. It is the only time I never made it out at all during shotgun between the weather and some health issues.
Bob
I bought the food saver brand from Walmart it was about $100 with some extra rolls of material for bags.Vac sealer on my list. Which one did you buy and what kind of bags are you using?
What do you guys think of the kidneys? Worthy or unworthy?
Knowing what I know about livers from A&P back in college I would never eat one. It’s the filter house for everything bad in the body plus several other functions. Kidneys act similarly but less toxins are found there.I used to eat the livers until the cadmium warnings came out but never the kidneys.
Bob
What do you guys think of the kidneys? Worthy or unworthy?
Any fog hunters on the last day of shotgun?
Tomorrow will be a key stalk and shoot friends. Thin coat of snow over ice. Crunchy yes but plan your steps and I hope to see more kills this season. I will be going back out but not tomorrow. I have to process my deer from Friday since temps are dropping fast beyond freezing. Thursday/Friday/ Saturday will be super sunny and bitter cold. Excellent weather. If I get another deer it will be donated.
Alright. I think my max butchering of deer by myself is going to be no more than 2 per year. Golly....
Alright. I think my max butchering of deer by myself is going to be no more than 2 per year. Golly....