Filled….

I punched my second tag tonight and given the forecast it couldn’t have come at a better time. Man, the wind over the last two days has been something else.

Enjoy the eats.

Tom Sawvell wrote:

I punched my second tag tonight and given the forecast it couldn’t have come at a better time. Man, the wind over the last two days has been something else.

I’ve seen crazy things deer hunting but this deer tops it all. Face down in whatever it was eating it never knew I was there. The shot was right behind the skull in the neck, out thru the bottom of the neck just in front of that gnarly patch of hair where the neck and brisket meet. At impact the deer kicked so hard it literally broke a rear leg off just under the knee. It was hanging by some skin. Unreal.

I was using a .45 cal muzzie in-line with a 200 grain, .40 cal XTP bullet. The powder load was 110 grains of bh209 powder with a velocity in the 2100 fps range. This critter obviously took umbrage at it to kick that hard. WOW.

Looks like it’s time to make more Peperoni and other awesome stuff. Your posts below make me hungry

Pepperoni
Summer Sausage

I just got yesterday’s critter knocked down to working sized quarters and chunks. Now I’ll start the task of cutting the critters into 1″ cubes, very well trimmed and weighing out bags for the next step.

I have ring bologna and two styles of vennie hot dogs abounding in the freezer yet so summer sausage will be one item on the list. I prefer cut muscle jerky and plan to slip 25 pounds of nice muscle meat into a batch of jerky. Whatever is left I’ll put into some snack sticks.

I have plenty of pepperoni on hand. My bratwurst pile is dwindling so I’ll be doing a 25 pound batch of it but that’s pure pork. And I have breakfast sausage to make…25 pounds. And Italian sausage, maybe 15 pounds, maybe 25….see what rips my trigger.

In a good place when the only decision left is to figure out what do make with the meat, having some fresh loin steaks ourselves tonight.

Tom, is the muzzy season your only for deer hunting?

Denny, I hunt the regular season with my front stuffers since they’re legal in every deer season except the archery. I fired two shots this season, each from different guns. One was a .50 cal and the other a .45 cal. I hunhnted Monday and Tuesday with the .50 cal pistol but took a long gun because of the wind yesterday.

All of my muzzleloader rifles that are in-line give me one hole, 5 shot groups at 100 yards so I’m pretty confident in hunting them in lieu of a shotgun and slugs.

Some areas in the SE zone where the late muzzy season is held are not bad late. I have lung disease and sucking cold air really robs me of air so I hunt while we still have moderately decent temps.

While the late muzzy season will allow in-lines and scopes and all the other goodies I have a side hammer single trigger Renegade .54 caliber that I’d take if I hunted that late season but I’m just concerned about cold air we can have by then.

Both of my critters are in chunks lugs now ready to be gone through very thoroughly and cut into 1″ chunks. I have specific recipes and meat for sausage gets weighed in bags of 5 or six pounds depending on the type of sausage and then froze until I have everything rounded up I need. While the second season is banging away I;m in my warm room with grinders and stuffers going….listening to country on the radio or some really hard rock….think Steppenwolf or Iron Butterfly on disc.

Good for you Tom !!
cant wait to see the finished products.
if you are going to be rockn to Iron Butterfly and Steppenwolf,another good rock song to work to is, I gotta keepa runnin by the godz.

Gee, I thought that Tom was spot on with his musical suggestions, but I goda say I’ve never heard of the one that Sheldon is speaking of.