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Post by Toby Benoit on Sept 12, 2008 14:25:52 GMT 12.75
I couldn't wait for deer season to open next week, so I drove out to the coast for a hog hunt this morning and placed a hundred pounds of fixin-to-be sausage on the tailgate with my bow.
Now that I'm warmed up, bring on the season! ;D
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Post by Carter Northcutt on Sept 12, 2008 18:33:15 GMT 12.75
That's cool Toby. How much bacon will you get from it? I had fresh bacon from a domestic one before and it was the best I ever ate
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Post by Toby Benoit on Sept 13, 2008 7:44:55 GMT 12.75
I didn't cut out the bacon. I saved the backstrap and one ham, ther est will go into sausage this weekend! Love that fresh sausage!
If I had cut it out, it wasn't much as she's really lean, so I mixed it all in together after I boned it out last night and it's ready for the grinder.
That ham will go into the oven in just a couple more hours and the backstrap's going to be cut into frying pieces for breakfast all next week. A couple of them slices fried up with some stone ground grits and a couple of eggs with lots of coffee....that'll get your day started right! ;D
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Post by Toby Benoit on Sept 13, 2008 16:01:00 GMT 12.75
Here's a picture taken after yesterday's hunt. ;D
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Post by Paws on Sept 13, 2008 23:13:03 GMT 12.75
Nice snack there Toby. Hey, what do you do with the hides?
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Post by Carter Northcutt on Sept 14, 2008 6:40:56 GMT 12.75
Nice pic of the pig there Toby. Looks like you hit it in the right spot.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Sept 14, 2008 11:34:28 GMT 12.75
Phil, the hide gets thrown away with the head, feet and guts...minus the heart and liver. Had a roast last night. I cooked it in a DO with a lid and I put a little water in the pot and rubbed the ham down with Tony Chachere's Creole Seasoning and dropped some garlic pieces all over it. When it was pert near done, I added some chunks of taters, sliced carrots, some onion and celery and a can of mushroom soup, then let it finish cooking till the taters got soft. It was delicious! ;D
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Post by Carter Northcutt on Sept 14, 2008 15:37:11 GMT 12.75
Oh man, my mouth gets all moist when you talk that way Toby
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Post by Paws on Sept 15, 2008 1:33:52 GMT 12.75
Sure sounds good to me!
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Post by Paws on Sept 15, 2008 1:56:08 GMT 12.75
Roots? Vegetarianism? Pun?
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Post by Toby Benoit on Sept 22, 2008 15:53:04 GMT 12.75
Roasted a front shoulder off my pig and made sammiches for supper. Oh man it was good! Get to start deer hunting tomorrow! Wish me luck! My little gal-pal and business partner Tonya, poked a hole through a doe on Saturday morning and put her in the tailgate. We had a bet about who'd put the first deer of the season on the tailgate and she won, so I gotta bake her a mes of oatmeal cookies...Ain't gonna tell you what I asked for if I'd won the bet, lol! Anyway, I'm proud of her! It's only her second archery deer!
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Post by Paws on Sept 23, 2008 0:56:37 GMT 12.75
;D I've seen her picture so I can imagine man!
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Post by Carter Northcutt on Sept 23, 2008 9:20:33 GMT 12.75
Toby, bet her on the first buck, anything, just make sure you win. Remember that line from, "Lonesome Dove" where Lorena accuses Gus of cheating so he could get a poke. And he told her that, "Any man that wouldn't cheat to get a poke don't want one bad enough".
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Post by Mars on Sept 23, 2008 11:50:38 GMT 12.75
Our deer/bear season opens saturday. Spent this past weekend scouting but found very little bear or deer sign so I don't have much hope. We will probaly set up on the edge of the bear reserve and see what happens. We can't shoot bears but it will give us a chance to monitor them if they show up. The bears are leaving the preserve to feed on berries growing at the Plum Grove(Gov. Seviers home) site.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Sept 23, 2008 18:13:12 GMT 12.75
Not a bad idea Carter....maybe I can talk her into double or nothing for antlers??? I gotta be careful though cause she's doing all of the website stuff for Brian and I, because we're too damn dumb to figure it out on our own, lol. So, I'll prolly just bake the damn cookies and keep her happy, lol. Course, our original bet was the first one to make a kill, so I got that hog and she says, "That don't count because it's deer season and you can kill a hog anytime!" So, I relented and agreed that we were betting on the first DEER of the season. I got out this afternoon for five hours in the blind and saw nothing. Weather set in and fubar'd the hunting. Try again on Wednesday maybe. Mars...can you do a honey burn in your area? Let that smoke drift into the reserve and they'll damn sure come out for a look-see!
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Post by Paws on Sept 23, 2008 21:51:33 GMT 12.75
Your deer out of velvet boys? I haven't seen an antler since last year. Probably jumped a dozen or dozen and a half deer; all bald headed. Been really dry up here.
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Post by Mars on Sept 24, 2008 1:10:32 GMT 12.75
I didn't see a single rub so maybe they are still in velvet and haven't seen a buck in a month. I can do a honey burn. TWRA defines bait as any substance placed to be consumed by an animal and includes a bird feeder. I have bear bomb though and will try that. We will be just inside the preserve so bears are offlimits but......
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Post by Toby Benoit on Sept 24, 2008 15:56:53 GMT 12.75
Bucks outta velvet since August around here. They'll start to rut in about another month. Not a lot of rubs in the woods either, but still plenty of bucks. In this nutrient depleted soil we have they don't get all the vitamins and minerals that they need and they will strip the velvet off their antlers with a hind foot and eat the velvet for the protein and nutrients in it. We'll start seeing rubs in a few more weeks as they begin to heavily spar and mark out their territories. Chicken saw a good buck today out of bow range. She's hoping to meet up with him again with her muzzleloader!
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Post by Paws on Sept 25, 2008 2:42:24 GMT 12.75
You know being as I'm still housebound I might ought go get myself another muzzie. Get more days in the local woods anyhow. No worse than a danged shotgun with a three slug limit anyhow I reckon. Might even be a better deal in a ground blind. I sure am enjoyin old Brian's cross bow. Still haven t blooded it yet. I ever get able to get away from this house a few days I'm comin' down and killin every hog in texas, louisiana, arkansaw and then goin after bear in tennessee! (I'll save Florida for next time!)
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Post by brittonfaith on Sept 25, 2008 9:12:48 GMT 12.75
Theres been three to five does nibbling at the straw in the back yard for a couple weeks. Had a real nice sized buck in the front yard this morning. Still in full velvet. Looked to be an 8-pt. Rack looked kinda funny as it stuck straight up from his head and the tines on the left side almost crossed those on the right. I'd pop one of them, but don't have any help to cut and wrap. I could do it. But this gal isn't as tough as she used to be.
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