Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Hey - any of ya'll remember Falconry Friday??

Wow! Just wow! 😎

And congrats to your son, lots of folks wait their whole lives to take a buffalo 😎

Please come back and post pics of your birds, Iv also missed them. and would like to see more of your new bird!

I’ve missed your Falconry Friday post. Keep them coming.

John

Thanks for the response. I figured it was something like that, but was wondering more what it would be like if the skunk sprayed. Had not thought of the ESA issue.

The worst kill we ever had to deal with was a long-tailed weasel the HAHAs killed their first year. They're mustelids and the hahas were not very efficient killers at the time. There was stink everywhere. My daughter (the other falconer) was there and was dry heaving for about a half hour. We had to throw both gloves away....

Very nice to see you posting again..... How did the custom rifle you were building turn out?

I'm also interested in more details about :

"Cooling down a 1900# carcass in 90*F heat was one of the biggest logistical challenges I've faced! All worked out though -- I brought a 20 cu ft freezer and propane generator and it worked perfectly!"

Did you have to debone it all first to make it fit? I think buffalo steak is the best red meat I've ever eaten.... congratulations.

Missed these posts. Thanks for stopping in!

2ndwind,

I used to have a custom made 4x4x3' cooler that I used for warm weather hunts. It finally fell apart and in looking for a replacement of similar size, it became apparent that it'd be cheaper to just buy a 20 cu ft freezer and a generator so that's what I did.

I pre-filled the freezer with eight 6-gallon water jugs and froze them to -16*F, which had to have been about 500# of ice.





We took four legs in game bags plus 3 bags of deboned meat back to camp. Once there we layered the four legs and ice jugs in the freezer with one bag on top . The two additional bags didn't fit and we put them it traditional coolers using the leftover frozen 6-gal jugs. We turned the freezer on and it kept the meat at 35* for 3 days on my flatbed trailer.






For smaller hunts (like antelope season coming up on Tuesday) we'll not take the trailer or the generator as they'll be day trips. The freezer fits in the truck and should function fine as a big "cooler" with the pre-frozen ice jugs.

BTW, the finished deboned and wrapped meat came to about 14 cu ft -- we could fit an antelope on top of it in our 15 cu ft basement freezer but that's about it. Good thing we have more than one freezer!

This

UtahLefty, My wife and I went deer hunting for our honeymoon and it was her idea to do so.... While we dated I had prepared a wide variety of venison dishes for her and being a former farmgirl she thought the concept of "free meat" was just great.

We are coming up on our 22 nd hunting season together. We do all the processing field to fork..... We don't have a walk in cooler to age the meat (yet) but run an extra refrigerator to keep the meat cool for at least a week before we cut wrap and freeze it. We think of ourselves as "trophy meat hunters".... Always interested to see how others go the extra mile to properly care for game meat.

We got a Sous-vide machine last year and can't say enough about how well it works on lean game meat.

Remember, and frankly one of the real highlights of this board. Thanks for sharing again.

Falconry Friday was for the birds...

welcome back UL...been a while

I remember and miss FF! Thanks for the post, keep them coming!

Welcome back!