Year of the elk 2.0

[Duck-Slayer]

I did a thread a couple years back called year of the elk. That year was pretty poor showing by the fam. This year we have 4 draw elk tags, 1 for each of us. I’m hoping this will be a better year of the elk. Thought I would make the first post.
Which means the start of burritos for the freezer. I’m estimating about 50 days spent in the mountains chasing elk this season between 4 hunters. That means I may need a truck load of burritos
Matt

 

[Wyoming270]

We eat for a year off of 1 elk, could not imagine having freezer space for 4.

 

[Duck-Slayer]

I have 2 big freezers just for wild game meat, I also do not fix fat with mine, 100% free range wild elk,
Matt

 

[duckhunt]

I did a thread a couple years back called year of the elk. That year was pretty poor showing by the fam. This year we have 4 draw elk tags, 1 for each of us. I’m hoping this will be a better year of the elk. Thought I would make the first post.
Which means the start of burritos for the freezer. I’m estimating about 50 days spent in the mountains chasing elk this season between 4 hunters. That means I may need a truck load of burritos
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Was actually just thinking about camp food for my September Colorado muzzy hunt. What's your go to burrito recipe?

 

[Hams42]

I did a thread a couple years back called year of the elk. That year was pretty poor showing by the fam. This year we have 4 draw elk tags, 1 for each of us. I’m hoping this will be a better year of the elk. Thought I would make the first post.
Which means the start of burritos for the freezer. I’m estimating about 50 days spent in the mountains chasing elk this season between 4 hunters. That means I may need a truck load of burritos
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Forget the elk I wanna hear about thay monster of a Muley.

We eat for a year off of 1 elk, could not imagine having freezer space for 4.

My family typically gets 4 to 6 a year and we go through almost all of it with 7 to 8 people.

 

[Nick87]

Forget the elk I wanna hear about thay monster of a Muley.

My family typically gets 4 to 6 a year and we go through almost all of it with 7 to 8 people.

Family of 5 here. We could easily burn through 4 elk. What a problem that woukd be.

 

[Wyoming270]

Forget the elk I wanna hear about thay monster of a Muley.

My family typically gets 4 to 6 a year and we go through almost all of it with 7 to 8 people.

23 lbs of red meat a week is wild. I would need a commercial kitchen!

 

[ccc23454]

Good luck matt, cant wait to hear about the adventures!

Family of 3, we typically need minimum 2 elk a year and some combination of 3-6 deer and antelope. Friends benefit in years when have extra elk tags (3 is common) or draw something like bison but have the processing ability and equipment for that amount of meat.

 

[Duck-Slayer]

Was actually just thinking about camp food for my September Colorado muzzy hunt. What's your go to burrito recipe?

I’m a person that can eat the same thing pretty much all the time when hunting, just needs to be quick. I have a recipe I think on one of my other threads, I’m sure someone will chime in and say I did not get my own recipe right. It does very dependent on what I have in hand when I make them. So each batch of 12 is sometimes different. Potato, Egg, Bacon, cheese and elk sausage with green chilies is usually my go to and have on hand. I do add mushrooms sometimes, I’ve added syrup before doesn’t really matter the flavor, I started using dried jalapeños from Winco, really good. Then I’ll turn left overs into burritos too, as long as is can fit in a large burrito it gets turned into food for hunting
Matt

 

[Duck-Slayer]

23 lbs of red meat a week is wild. I would need a commercial kitchen!

I cook almost every meal in my home, we used 1 full elk and 2 full deer, I just cooked my last package of steak tonight for supper. With a family of 3 basically now. I have maybe 2 packages of burger left, luckily I caught a bunch of perch, ducks, geese to supplement until antelope next month.
Matt

 

[ccc23454]

@Duck-Slayer any chance redoing a early season archery deer adventure in nevaada?

 

[Duck-Slayer]

@Duck-Slayer any chance redoing an early season archery deer adventure in nevaada?

I sure hope one of these years they will decide to give me another tag! Even if it’s the easiest unit to draw supposedly lol
Matt

 

[cgasner1]

Family of 5 here. We could easily burn through 4 elk. What a problem that woukd be.

I do 2 elk a year pretty consistently. With moose back straps added in

 

[Duck-Slayer]

A little bit of a story on this post. So this year I did not have any kids participating in 4H Meat goats or the fair. So my wife and I decide to buy a couple of goats from kids. We have watched throughout the last few years. We ended up buying two goats, I smoked a rear quarter two days ago and then I put it in the crockpot yesterday and we had it for supper yesterday evening. It is wonderful, and we had leftovers. And I had mentioned before that you can pretty much put anything in a burrito and freeze it for your backcountry meal. I was able to get seven burritos out of the leftover rear goat leg.
Matt

 

[Hams42]

A little bit of a story on this post. So this year I did not have any kids participating in 4H Meat goats or the fair. So my wife and I decide to buy a couple of goats from kids. We have watched throughout the last few years. We ended up buying two goats, I smoked a rear quarter two days ago and then I put it in the crockpot yesterday and we had it for supper yesterday evening. It is wonderful, and we had leftovers. And I had mentioned before that you can pretty much put anything in a burrito and freeze it for your backcountry meal. I was able to get seven burritos out of the leftover rear goat leg.
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What does a goat run you?

 

[Duck-Slayer]

What does a goat run you?

Between 900 and 1200, anything over meat price is tax deductible, pretty sure it was around 250 meat price.
Matt