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I've thought of using Kings of England or Popes, but we shoot more does/cows than bulls/bucks and there's only been 3 queens of England--and 2 of them were named Elizabeth. And there's never been a female pope.

Movie stars? Hurricane names? Tennis grand slam winners. Actually, that might work til we get to Serena Williams and Jimmy Conners.

How about starting a Food Gack series? LOL.

Game Cooking Gack: DRT on the Table?

You pay for the printing and I'm in!

She's just "testing the market"....

That's funny, but understandable about your friend! My kids love the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so I started with one of the characters.

My copy arrived in the mail today. I’m looking forward to reading it, most particularly the section on field care and aging.
Thanks

Would be interested in hearing your reaction!

I did a little research on the subject as a wildlife biology student at the U. of Montana many years ago, especially about "aging" meat. Passed what I knew along to Eileen after we were married--and she discovered she really liked wild game. But she has done far more research, especially about the critical first 48 hours or so.

How about a sale on Slice of the Wild? Okay. How about for Father's Day? It's already started, and I've sent out notices to all the subscribers of Rifle Loony News. And, FYI, my Sausage Season book is also on sale, John's Life of the Hunt and Gun Gack 2, plus my Stalking the Wild Jerky. (Jerky recipes for everything you hunt, including a baloney jerky from scratch and a goose jerky seasoned with a packet of ranch dressing mix. Plus how to tell when it's done so you're not stuck with dry, crackling jerky. I've made the mistakes, and I've fixed them, and share the results. It's what cookbooks should do!
Eileen/Mrs Mule Deer

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That's a really good idea using characters from Marvel comics. The great thing about the presidents and first ladies was that it was also a check on how long meat had been in the freezer--especially if we forgot to write the date on the package. I get kinda confused in the Jackson, Tip-A-Canoe-And-Tyler-Too period, but otherwise we both are pretty good at when each president was in office....

Actually I may just do Governors of Montana--and their first ladies.

For lunch yesterday we had steaks from "Louisa," a big doe pronghorn I got a couple years ago, which were of course excellent. She was named after John Quincy Adams' wife, who was First Lady from 1825-29, so we are running out of those names....

Slice of the Wild is a fantastic resource. I thought I knew everything until Eileen came along.....

Your way is more fun and imaginative. I just stick with something like E-23 for elk in January 2023 or D-22 for deer taken in 2022. Keeps it simple for me.

Guy

Guy,

The problem we ran into--which resulted in the "naming"--was that we often took more than one deer, pronghorn, or even elk in the same year. And the deer were usually both whitetails and mule deer.

I have taken up to nine big game animals in Montana during a single year--and once I started traveling more often took them in different states. As an example, hunted Wyoming for pronghorn and deer about every other year for quite a while, and we wanted to not only differentiate the deer by species and sex, but by where they were taken, in case the flavor/toughness was different--info Eileen found useful for her cookbooks.

Ya, I've maxed out at 4 big game animals in a year. You two put my take to shame! Though I'm not sure what I'd do with all that "extra" meat. I'm sure my oldest son would appreciate some. That young fellow loves eating wild game meat!

All the best, Guy

We have shared a bunch of meat with friends and relatives over the years--but have almost entirely eaten wild game since getting married 40 years ago (well, along with growing a big garden every year.) Discovered early on that 4 "deer-sized" animals a year was a minimum, and since the supply could vary from year to year, we sometimes "over-stuffed" our primary 15-cubic-foot freezer as a sort of savings account.

Eventually ended up with three 15-cubic-foot freezers, the reason for Eileen's Campfire name, Leenie3freezers. One is in the room next to the kitchen, filled with the meat (and garden stuff) from the previous year. The other two are in the basement, one for filling each fall, and the other for the "special" game Eileen selects for her game cookbooks and articles.

This system has come in handy some years, such as 2013 when our young Labrador retriever severely dislocated my right knee in early September while we were hunting Hungarian partridge. I did manage to kill one deer that year, a couple months later while gimping around. Eileen killed two--but the overall supply didn't suffer much due to the "savings" freezer, which contained the meat from a 6-point elk I got lucky on in 2012.

But hunting is part of our job. For most people it takes place during "spare" time--as it did for you before retirement. This makes a big difference. We almost never hunt on weekends, when most other folks do. Instead we can pick and choose the times and places. Which is why we've been able to hunt a LOT over the years, and not just in Montana.

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Thanks JG. Actually my favorite part of Slice of the Wild, besides having my favorite recipes handy, is the Rogue's Gallery. One page mule deer, one whitetail, one elk, etc, and for each photo a few details on what happened with game care, how they tasted, etc. We try to do the same thing every time, as far as field care, but sometimes it's cold, sometimes warm. Sometimes we're far from home, sometimes not. Was it a drought year? Were the boys rutting? It all matters.

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Eileen- assuming you're still trying that from a PC, see if this is of any help.

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbt...we-get-pics-from-image-gallery-to-a-post

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Whitetail,

Thanks for the help!

But she has been having difficulty posting photos from her computer, even after talking to Rick Bin on the phone the other day (he suggested changing to Google Chrome, which she did). But it's still iffy--and she's following the directions both from Rick and me, and both work for us.