Sheep is very, very good. The "ambiance" of the moment certainly adds to the perceived quality. But with that removed and only the meat itself talking a lot of surprising things happen.
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
Sheep is very, very good. The "ambiance" of the moment certainly adds to the perceived quality. But with that removed and only the meat itself talking a lot of surprising things happen.
Kinda the condensed version of what a buddy told me of eating sheep ribs cooked over a fire like so many old stories mention. Let’s just say that it wasn’t nearly as good as it sounded in the books.
Sheep is very, very good. The "ambiance" of the moment certainly adds to the perceived quality. But with that removed and only the meat itself talking a lot of surprising things happen.
Kinda the condensed version of what a buddy told me of eating sheep ribs cooked over a fire like so many old stories mention. Let’s just say that it wasn’t nearly as good as it sounded in the books.
Especially when you miss the part about cooking them there so you do not have to carry all that bone...
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
I have always suspected that may have been a motive for those “decadent” willow roasted sheep rib meals on the mountainside. I’ve always been of the opinion that anything smaller than a moose doesn’t have enough meat over it’s ribs for me to want to freight them out.
I killed a big bull out in the Alphabet hills one year that was every bit the size of a spike bull elk. A couple years later I killed two big bulls on the slope that weren’t much if any bigger than a big buck mule deer. I don’t know about where you were hunting but I do know that mature bulls can be quite a bit bigger or smaller depending on which herd they’re from.
Never weighed the meat from any of them though. Was always too damn much of it when I was packing it out and cutting it up at home. And not nearly enough when we got finished eating it. Of course the slope trip where I ended up with 5 bulls in my freezer may have been a little much.
I killed a big bull out in the Alphabet hills one year that was every bit the size of a spike bull elk. A couple years later I killed two big bulls on the slope that weren’t much if any bigger than a big buck mule deer. I don’t know about where you were hunting but I do know that mature bulls can be quite a bit bigger or smaller depending on which herd they’re from.
Never weighed the meat from any of them though. Was always too damn much of it when I was packing it out and cutting it up at home. And not nearly enough when we got finished eating it. Of course the slope trip where I ended up with 5 bulls in my freezer may have been a little much.
Spot on. If I have to back pack 'em anywhere, I strip the. meat off everything except the legs. . I like to leave bone in on those- at least the upper bones.
The larger bulls I have killed on the Kenai are at minimum, 3 heavy loads- roughly 150-170 lbs.field dressed as above. Those I have killed out of the NWAH are much smaller. Those two we took this year and one years ago from the $0-Mile are somewhere in betwee. I understand Peary's Caribou, out of the Canadian far north (Baffin Island?) are about the size of a Labrador retriever.
IIRC, the largest caribou (caribou/reindeer?) ever taken came off Adak Island, and weighed in excess of 700 lbs. Or so I read somewhere.
But that might be in the category of those 2,000 lb moose you hear about every so often.....
Yeah, that 5/day thing is a little much, at least if one is solo. I did it. Once.
Just went back to check ADFG profile on caribou, which confirms what I oosted above..
Caribou wins more often than not in blind taste tests against virtually all game animals. Last time we did it: Caribou Mtn goat Moose Dalls sheep...
Interesting, invite me next time. LOL.
In non blind tests, Dall sheep, moose, and the rest. really don't care for caribou, but then others like them better than moose and your blind test proves that.
Of course we all have different tastes.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
I shot a nice Caribou North of the Brooks Range and quarterd and removed all edible meat. Dropped off in three game bags in Fairbanks locker picked up just over 100lbs, in hamburger 10% added fat in 1 lbs. packages and steaks as I did not want roasts or chucks. It all fit into a Coleman 70qt cooler I bought at Walmart in Fairbanks.
