Hunting show's kill shot laughter

[Mad German]

Classic denial/deflection, Ryan. Now that's entertainment right there.

[MotoPD]

Alright, I'll get a ruler but I think it should be one of our female members to do the measuring. You know, so it's not awkward.

[okaugust]

I don't need a ruler. Hell, you don't even need to pull it out. I can just tell.

[quazz]

Originally Posted by okaugust

I don't need a ruler. Hell, you don't even need to pull it out. I can just tell.

doh!

[gotfz1]

Originally Posted by Buccleuch

Choose your words more carefully. Polar bears are extinct in Ecuador, too.

If any species is endangered, threatened, or otherwise at risk of extinction, it doesn't matter if they're on the savannah of Africa, or in a game preserve in Texas, it's still against the law to hunt and kill them.

WA.

That is not correct. It was detailed in the story.

[gotfz1]

Every time someone plays the "if they had to butcher it..." card I crack up. I've helped butcher a hog and apparently it only increased my desire for bacon

[jredford]

Originally Posted by gotfz1

Every time someone plays the "if they had to butcher it..." card I crack up. I've helped butcher a hog and apparently it only increased my desire for bacon

Exactly.

[okaugust]

Some of my fondest memories are of going to the "meat locker" in Cherokee, OK with my grandparents to get beef. Walking past the hanging carcasses, smelling the frozen blood smell, getting the little happy white wrapped packages out of the locker. Damn good meat. Seen deer butchered, pork, beef. Don't care. It's good prep for the zombie apocolypse.

[Adjuster]

Best hunting story ever was in Eastern Idaho when I was in college.

The guy I worked with takes an elk every other year, and they raise cattle every other year.

They trade off the meat between another family that does just the opposite, and end up with plenty of both every year.

[slammermd]

That is the best hunting story ever.

[Racer Boy]

Idaho is an alternate universe to the one that the rest of us inhabit.

[Adjuster]

I wrote more, but it got deleted... LOL

Short version..

I figured we were going "hunting."
He picked me up at 4:30am, and we drove up to a dirt road between Kilgore and Shotgun, ID. (Shotgun road.)

He pulled up near a line of aspen trees, parked the truck, and asked if I had my field glasses along?

Says you watch there, I'll watch here, and let me know when you see them.

Sure enough, about the time it just starts to get light enough to see more than a few hundred yards, I see a line of elk moving up along the aspen trees.

I pointed this out to Tim, he just quietly got out, loaded his black powder rifle, used the hood as a support, shot the elk he wanted at perhaps 150' away, and then since I'd hopped out of the truck after the shot, said "get back in, we will just drive over..."

So, we drive over to the elk that's dead, perhaps took 3 steps from when it was shot, Tim looked for two Aspens tall enough, and about 4' apart, and showed me how to hang the elk up between them, rear legs splayed up, the elks head about 1" off the ground.

He then says, "Watch this, no smell, no mess." And proceeds to cut around the elk's anus, intestine, stomachs and never nicked anything that smells at all. It was the cleanest gutting I've ever seen, and about the time the gut pile was done, the elk had sprung up about a foot, so the head was not in the pile.
He then used a saw to cut off the hoves and head, and we loaded the carcass into the back of the truck.

By 8:30am, we were at the college's "animal husbandry" facility that is West of the main campus, and the professor there, the guy they trade off cattle to elk with every year, helped us hook up the carcass to their system, mark the elk as not for sale with stamps and then the fun started!

Bandsaws, and other stuff used just for dealing with large soon to be steaks were on hand, and we had the elk completely ready to be hung and aged by 10am. (No skin, two sides of elk, and we stopped to have a nice breakfast in the meantime after washing up.)

I was all ready for a day of "hunting" and was back at my place by noon with roomates asking what happend?

Shortest, yet sucessful hunt I've ever been on, and it changed how I look at hunting from a sport, to more like going shopping for your meat supply.

[hooligan998]

Originally Posted by okaugust

73 posts about a "reality" tv show.

You do realize they act like idiots because that's what people want to see right? That is all.

Possibly the best post in this now miserable thread.

[rswebscan]

Originally Posted by okaugust

I don't need a ruler. Hell, you don't even need to pull it out. I can just tell.

Now we'll never be able to meet in person....

[Wayne-O]

Harvesting a resource, O.K but is it cost effective? After camo-clothing, scent-blocker, tree stands, shooting gloves, skinning knives, ammo etc, etc, ad nauseum what is your cost per pound.
No, really what do you think a pound of meat cost you. Slightly better than fishermen I'm sure.
I get fairly good milage on my Fizzy and my Bandit but jackets, gloves etc gets to be pricey so I'm not throwing stones.
These shows are starting to look like " American Chopper" thanks in part to this thread.

[dipps]

Harvesting a resource, O.K but is it cost effective? After camo-clothing, scent-blocker, tree stands, shooting gloves, skinning knives, ammo etc, etc, ad nauseum what is your cost per pound.
No, really what do you think a pound of meat cost you. Slightly better than fishermen I'm sure.

i've never gone into the woods hoping/expecting to wind up with a bunch of venison meat at a better price per pound than the hamburger i could pick up at the store.

and much of the game you hunt, you can't usually buy at the local grocery store.

[Buccleuch]

Originally Posted by Wayne-O

These shows are starting to look like " American Chopper" thanks in part to this thread.

I think you just nailed it.

WA.

[lowtone9]

Of course I want to kill and eat everything I see. Doesn't everyone?

[Wayne-O]

Sorry I'm a vagietarian(?) I'll pound it into submission but it's gotta be live.

[jethro]

My wife don't eat meat, but she sure likes the bone!