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Let's see them, here's mine

Very cool Mike!

Our kitchen table gets turned into a butcher block quite often. The last time I paid a butcher to cut up one of my critters was 2005… swore I’d never let another touch them again. They are worried about profit, not quality.

So far we have a bull elk, cow moose and young buck in a very full freezer.







We upgraded grinders this year after it took 4 hours to double grind all the bull elk grind. If I would have known how much time a proper grinder can save, I would have done it years ago. We don’t add any fat to most of our grind. We do for sausage and a little for burger patties.



Got 75 pound of grind just from the moose. Took less than an hour to double grind it all.

Delicious stuff!





Thanks for sharing Mike!

Todd

Congrats Todd - that tribe of yours will be fed for awhile.

Wow, “ Got 75 pound of grind just from the moose.” that’s great! 👍👍

I think I have shot deer that didn’t weight 75 lbs. it is a little embarrassing. 😁

Grinding. Been doing plenty of that this year. Got 65lbs grind from my daughters’ two deer and 115lbs grind from my daughter’s cow elk.



25lbs breakfast sausage, deer:


Elk burger:


Deer pasta (made with crockpot rib meat):


Grouse stock simmering:


Elk heart and bacon with gravy and rice:

No meat brought home, but we spent time in beautiful country……a trophy in itself! memtb

I'm confused - post pics of meat or animals?

I'm still working on mine - the local deer rut is getting in the way of things right now.

Post pics of your trophy - for me, the meat is "the trophy".

My elk quarters going from cooler to freezer today. Stopped to have a celebratory beer. Just have rear quarters left to do. Not grinding today, just freezing trim for grind in 4# bags. Will do in future.



2 flat irons that make up the blade roast from one front quarter. Supposedly the 2nd most tender cut.

2023 is in the books

Wow, I call that a "Dream Season", congrats and happy eating.

Nice picture frame!

We now have a ranch kitty at our deer lease, but no cat food.

So I was in the stand hunting hogs. Got the idea that that cat might just gnaw on a bunny.



Cottontail nailed @ 120 yds at night with 3x Thermal.

Took it back and the cat snatched it up and took off like a shot.

Bunny was near as big as the cat.

Yowsir!

GWB

Opening morning success. MkV Hunter in .270Wby using factory 130grn TTSX’s. 200 yard shot, took out the bottom of the heart. Went 40 yards and dropped.

Just one of several trophy memories.

That’s quite a snow pack for Georgia.

FWIW, we flatten the packages. They pack better in the freezer and thaw faster.

In 3 or 4 years he should make the legal limit of 50" spread. Having 2X2 brow tines, he will never make 3-brow tine legal. But he was fun for 30 minutes or so at 30 feet to 30 yard range. Only moose I saw during several half-days of limited hunting.

I know where his bigger cousin is tho..... called that one in to 40 yards or so, visibility being about 20.

It's all fun until the cartridge goes off!



On an afternoon hunt a weekor so before, Honey HalfLab told me he (or at least a moose) was back there somewhere. She knows her sh*t!

Arizona Unit 8 bull. Opening day, December 1, 2023. Remington M700, .300 WSM, 165 Federal Trophy Copper.

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/galleries/19033151/az-unit-8-bull

Dave

Took this one a week ago during Montana's mid-December "shoulder season," where you can use a general tag on antlerless elk on private land:



Thought it was an average-sized cow, but turned out to be the biggest I've taken, though not quite as big as the "trophy cow" my wife Eileen got a few years ago. The weather turned out to be perfect for aging the meat in our garage, in the 20s at night and low 40s during the day, and we started butchering today. Very tender and good flavor--much better tasting than the "trophy" antlers from past hunts hanging on the walls of the garage!