Shortest season ever?
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44hunter45
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Everything is deboned and the spare refrigerator is stuffed with chilling meat. Tomorrow I will start cutting and wrapping, Starting with the best cuts and working my way down to the trim and grind. I got stung by yellow jackets once yesterday and once today. It's a small price to pay for all this meat.
44hunter45
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I would really love to come join you in elk camp. If I fill my special WT tag in Oct early like this cow hunt, I'm thinking of crashing your party. I'll bring my pack frame!
I'll have chocolate chip cookies!
EastTNHunter
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If I was guessing I’d say that it didn’t pencil through. Probably entered, opened up and shed the front (causing all of that damage) and then the shank exited. That’s how accubonds work sometimes
Looks like a great hunt. I’m a little jealous of your early fun. I’m hoping to get a cow elk sometime in the next couple of years
I was chatting with another guy about the August hunt. He said he was stung 17 times last year between his hand and elbow. By the time he was done he said he couldn’t use his arm due to the swelling
44hunter45
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The one that got me while I was deboning was a hard hit. It was literally the last bit of the last quarter. I was cutting out the inter-costals for the grinder. I had the rib cage on a hook and as I turned it for a better angle I grabbed right on top of the wasp. It hit me hard and its stinger was embedded in the webbing of my right thumb. It was stuck there giving me all it had. I swiped it off with my knife, but the stinger stayed behind. I hard to go in the and get some tweezers to extract it.
I took a bunch of Benadryl before bed, but my right hand is puffed up. Now I am an even worse typist.
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44hunter45
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Meat cutting is very ritualized for me. It's my OCD or where I am on the spectrum.
Tag it
Bag it
Haul it
Debone it
Sort it
Chill it
Sharpen all the knives in the house.
Cut and wrap it
Freeze it
Enjoy
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Tag itBag itHaul itDebone itSort itChill itSharpen all the knives in the house.
Cut and wrap it
Freeze it
Enjoy
The timing on the last three line items is a little fuzzy.
westbranch
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Awesome, solid work! Fun to have a rifle get its first blood.
My wife drew a cow elk controlled hunt up here. But she refuses to hunt in August due to the yellowjackets. Probably won't go out until Oct.
My wife drew a cow elk controlled hunt up here. But she refuses to hunt in August due to the yellowjackets. Probably won't go out until Oct.
ChaosOneZero
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Good story @44hunter45. Thanks for sharing it and the pics. Pretty impressive to still be able to do it at 63 years young!
El Jason
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Congratulations! Happy to provide the motivation.
Deboning during hornet season sucks.
Deboning during hornet season sucks.
Nick87
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Nothing wrong with that!
44hunter45
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Dang we have a lot of knives in this house!Meat cutting is very ritualized for me. It's my OCD or where I am on the spectrum.
Cut and wrap it
Freeze it
Enjoy
The timing on the last three line items is a little fuzzy.
Put up ribeyes, loin medallions, NY strips and off to the freezer.
Pulled two flatirons to eat. In the skillet now.
Tenderloins are marinading in the fridge.
44hunter45
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Did the flatirons as London Broil. But pan fried to 125°. The I sliced them thin as finger food. A little done for me, but MRS likes pink not bloody.
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44hunter45
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Cut and wrapped 37 1/2 pounds tonight after work.
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AKHawken
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Having a good story makes it eat better...
44hunter45
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Every piece of fat I trim makes me think about "sweetfat" through the grinder. I have friends who want to make soap from this cow's fat, so I'm saving all the trimmings to render.
Venison tallow is the only thing I use to lube my cast boolits. I think I probably have enough boolits for my lifetime unless TSHTF.
44hunter45
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Totally agree about a good story. That raghorn hanging over the stair lintel in our house ate good that way. Remind me to tell you about it someday.
OverlordBear
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Thank you for sharing this trip out. Hunt stories like this are what make Hunttalk so great and it is the only form of social media I participate in. Makes me glad I picked up a left over cow elk tag this year even though I drew my first Montana deer tag this year. I can’t help but want to keep my elk supply stocked up for the next year.
