Thanks Tim, I do appreciate that. However you get my drift. I haven't killed a deer since Moby Dick was a minner!!!
I know whatcha meant brother but my gutter mind tends to wonder on me!
timc - formerly known as timc on the last G&A forum and timc on the G&A forum before that and the G&A forum before that.....
AKA: Former Founding Member
Dare I ask, what the heck is in your right front pocket? Or, you ARE happy about that buck:angel:.
I'm pretty sure that's my Buck Zipper skinning knife and it's scabbard that I pulled out of my pack a minute or two before we decided to take photos - had to stash it somewhere while juggling rifle and cell phone. Can't really say - that part of the morning is a bit blurry.
Looking at the photo though, I wish I'd turned his head a little bit - he really DOES have a fork on one side, honest. Oh well. . .we're gonna boil the skull for a European mount, so I guess you can see when that's done.
Oh yeah. . .the other lesson learned - Pop and I drove to Bass Pro Shops a couple nights later and bought a collapsible game cart. Ya know the phrase "dead weight"? Deer are probably where it comes from. It wasn't far to the truck and we had help walking to us, so we decided to wrap him in a tarp with some strategically-placed paracord and carry/drag him out whole (minus entrails). Even at only @90 pounds field dressed and walking a dirt road, it was no picnic. Now we've got wheels as an option for when it's too close to the car for field butchery, but too far for manhandling. I'm also now envisioning an elk as about five or six of these little guys - wheels = good!
Yes, but what do I do with all those lustful thoughts I've had towards you over the years? I feel dirty and cheated now.
:rotflmao: If I'M the best you can hope for, you might as well just jump off a cliff now!
Well. . .just so your hopes aren't totally dashed, consider this; if all the people representing themselves online as attractive young women are actually unattractive middle-aged men, how are the people who actually ARE attractive young women presenting themselves?
As Right Said Fred might say: I'm too sexy for this range. Too sexy for this range. So sexy it's strange.
My technical inabilities aside - the last half of this thread alone is reason NOT to post pics!
About the dead weight comment.... The last doe I shot was 140 lbs on the hoof.
Now, I'm not the strongest guy in the world, but I can handle myself. That doe? I couldn't even budge her. She collapsed between two pine rows that were freshly planted, so the dirt was sugar sand and deep.
A 14 year old boy that was with us showed up at dark and drug her out by himself. I was so ashamed. I guess it was my nerves. Yeah, that's it.
About the dead weight comment.... The last doe I shot was 140 lbs on the hoof.
Now, I'm not the strongest guy in the world, but I can handle myself. That doe? I couldn't even budge her.
Imagine the horror for me last year, when I loaded my 170 pounder (guts still in place) into the back of my Mule, alone, and then dumped it out and had to do it again. The previous year, it took me and a very robust 7 year old four attempts to load a 160 pounder. And dummy that I am, I still have not devised a lifting device for this year. :bang: Maybe I'll get lucky and not kill one. :jester:
Congrats, BigSlug! Patience DOES pay off and it's that much sweeter when you put the pieces together to make it happen. I agree regarding Barnes bullets, by the way. When I can make them work well in a gun, they get the job done well and do very little meat damage. The TTSX is my bullet of choice in7mm-08.
Accuracy: because white space between bullet holes drives me insane.
I think Mike's on to something with the plastic kiddie sled. Maybe not a roll up, but one of the hard plastic jobs to leave in the truck as an option/add-on to the game cart. The tarp didn't work as well as anticipated - need more rigid contact with the ground to negotiate around the undergrowth. One of the thing's that's been on my mind since the kill is multitasking with vehicle recovery gear. The beauty of a hand-winch is it's portable.
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Thanks Tim, I do appreciate that. However you get my drift. I haven't killed a deer since Moby Dick was a minner!!!
I know whatcha meant brother but my gutter mind tends to wonder on me!
AKA: Former Founding Member
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
Yeah, when I look up from down here I can see your mind up above me. Mine is exploring new lows.....
You won't have to eat corn gruel all winter!
Is that YOU in the picture with the deer?! After all these years and years.........I'd kinda come to imagine you as a hot chick who liked guns.
Totally ruined my image of you, now. I'm scared for life.
:tissue:
Dare I ask, what the heck is in your right front pocket? Or, you ARE happy about that buck:angel:.
Hey, at least I fit the PROFILE of a hot internet chick who likes guns - balding, bespectacled, pudgy, male. . .
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
I'm pretty sure that's my Buck Zipper skinning knife and it's scabbard that I pulled out of my pack a minute or two before we decided to take photos - had to stash it somewhere while juggling rifle and cell phone. Can't really say - that part of the morning is a bit blurry.
Looking at the photo though, I wish I'd turned his head a little bit - he really DOES have a fork on one side, honest. Oh well. . .we're gonna boil the skull for a European mount, so I guess you can see when that's done.
Oh yeah. . .the other lesson learned - Pop and I drove to Bass Pro Shops a couple nights later and bought a collapsible game cart. Ya know the phrase "dead weight"? Deer are probably where it comes from. It wasn't far to the truck and we had help walking to us, so we decided to wrap him in a tarp with some strategically-placed paracord and carry/drag him out whole (minus entrails). Even at only @90 pounds field dressed and walking a dirt road, it was no picnic. Now we've got wheels as an option for when it's too close to the car for field butchery, but too far for manhandling. I'm also now envisioning an elk as about five or six of these little guys - wheels = good!
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
Deer are probably where it comes from
No deer are pretty rigid and don't settle into any little divot in the ground it definitely comes from bear.:jester:
Yes, but what do I do with all those lustful thoughts I've had towards you over the years? I feel dirty and cheated now.
:rotflmao: If I'M the best you can hope for, you might as well just jump off a cliff now!
Well. . .just so your hopes aren't totally dashed, consider this; if all the people representing themselves online as attractive young women are actually unattractive middle-aged men, how are the people who actually ARE attractive young women presenting themselves?
As Right Said Fred might say: I'm too sexy for this range. Too sexy for this range. So sexy it's strange.
My technical inabilities aside - the last half of this thread alone is reason NOT to post pics!
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
Now, I'm not the strongest guy in the world, but I can handle myself. That doe? I couldn't even budge her. She collapsed between two pine rows that were freshly planted, so the dirt was sugar sand and deep.
A 14 year old boy that was with us showed up at dark and drug her out by himself. I was so ashamed. I guess it was my nerves. Yeah, that's it.
Imagine the horror for me last year, when I loaded my 170 pounder (guts still in place) into the back of my Mule, alone, and then dumped it out and had to do it again. The previous year, it took me and a very robust 7 year old four attempts to load a 160 pounder. And dummy that I am, I still have not devised a lifting device for this year. :bang: Maybe I'll get lucky and not kill one. :jester:
You can draw whatever you want up on the back of a truck or whatever. 1/2 in rebar and a welder and you have a gambrial (deer hangy thingy) to.
Get a set of grips and you can pull barb wire tight by yourself.
Wont help getting out of the woods, because deer, at least here, will find the slash pile to fall in. Best thing I found is abour 15-20 feet of Lowes rope, the blue/white http://www.lowes.com/pd_349190-258-BWSBP582BK_4294753233__?productId=3613928&Ns=p_product_qty_sales_dollar|1&pl=1¤tURL=%3FNs%3Dp_product_qty_sales_dollar|1&facetInfo=
Some guys swear by those cheap plastic roll up snow sleds http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=roll+up+sled&view=detail&id=FC04BD8C1678D7796D9B03ADF8A1D83831648865&qpvt=roll+up+sled Punch some holes in the sides and add a few light ties to keep Blambi on and add a pull rope
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee