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Post by Toby Benoit on Mar 31, 2013 13:58:50 GMT 12.75
Hooked up with some health food nuts, lol
I just got paid two hundred bucks to go out and kill two wild pigs and an additional eighty bucks for two farm raised turkeys, hahaha! They want to purchase only organic meat!
Sumbitches are raising $2,000 to send me to a local hunting preserve to hunt and kill a buffalo for them to put in their freezer... I keep the head and hide for my trouble! Ha!!!!
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Post by Simpleton on Mar 31, 2013 15:24:06 GMT 12.75
KA-CHING!! Wonder if they've done the per pound math on their meat bill? Also wondering why none of those health nuts know how to harvest their own vittles, or perhaps want to feel the satisfaction of eating what they killed themselves. Not that I got a bit of a problem with them parting with that kind of money to help somebody who I'm sure enjoys the hunt and already has plans for the loot!
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Post by Toby Benoit on Apr 2, 2013 1:48:58 GMT 12.75
An adult bull weighs in at about 1,500 or 1,600 pounds. They're gonna have to kick in an extra $400 for cutting and wrapping, after which the total price per pound will be under $2.00. WAY cheaper than what they're paying for it in the health food grocery stores.
These buffalo are free ranging on a 12 square mile ranch. Basically, we'll drive around until spotting one, then attempt to stalk in close enough to get a shot. The bulls have pretty nasty temper and if there's a cow in heat, will likely charge anything it deems a threat to his girls, inside thirty yards. The ranch owner will be along with a 12G loaded with slugs just in case, because I'll be carrying my bow.
(They want it bow killed because of the threat of lead poison, lol.)
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Post by Simpleton on Apr 2, 2013 3:40:08 GMT 12.75
Always been curious as to yield on a buffalo. On one of these steers, I figure hanging weight is 65% of live weight. Package weight (what I bring home, including soup bones and liver/heart/tongue) is usually around 50% of the hang. Going by that, on a 1500 lb bull, that gets in the freezer would be around 500 lb. muscle meat + 60 lb organ meat. Soup bones can have a wide range but figure maybe 80 lb on a bull that size. So about 640 TOTAL in the freezer coming to $3.75/lb. Still cheap for lean grass-fed beef!!
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Post by Toby Benoit on Apr 2, 2013 7:26:14 GMT 12.75
Dunno what they paid for ground meat, soup bones n stew meats, but steaks were running them $14 per lb and a neck roast about that as well.
Eating healthy, with a label on it, lol, is expensive.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Apr 7, 2013 16:24:05 GMT 12.75
A buddy invited me out last night with his catch dogs. Caught six hogs, I killed three with a Bowie knife. Sold all three of them 80lb average for $100 each, lol. I gave my partner $30 each for his trouble. Chaching! Hahaha!!! Getting paid to go hunting... I may have found my niche afterall!
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Post by Toby Benoit on Apr 7, 2013 16:26:43 GMT 12.75
Oh, and BAZINGA!!! Talked with HR Ross, the owner of Ross Hammock Ranch, with the buffalo. He told me I can have the hunt for $1,150. Add to that the $400 for cutting and wrapping, I keep the extra, hahaha. $450 plus the head and hide to me! Oh heck yeah!!!
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Post by Toby Benoit on Apr 9, 2013 11:08:00 GMT 12.75
Them three 100 - 150 pound hogs I caught n stuck the other day been languishing on ice. Today was butcher day. Cut n wrap n grind X 3 only took 4 hours.... Not bad for a white boy!
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Post by Toby Benoit on Apr 13, 2013 9:37:54 GMT 12.75
Lol, just got in a request for two more wild pigs. They boneless chops they tried from one of the hogs was the "best pork flavor than we have had in years". Cool, I'm game if they are!!!
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