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!

I've only killed one cow but I thought that cow tasted better than any other elk I've had. I'd take a cow any day.

Congrats John!

Cow elk # 2 this season.

Lazed 350 yard shot from prone with a sporterized Mauser in 9,3x62 using a 2x7 leupold with LR Duplex. The 2nd dot which is usually "400 yards" is only 335 yards for my trajectory, so I held just a touch above mid point. 250 grain Barnes TSX at 2465 fps. 58.1 grains of Varget shoots .875" @ 100 yards.

This was Monday morning in New Mexico.

Thanks!

However, one of the best-tasting elk we've taken was a 5-point bull I killed on the 5th of September in 1987, back then opening day of Montana's bow season. He hadn't even thought about going into the rut yet!

But yep, in general cows tend to be tastier and tenderer than bulls.

Good elk fall this year…

Congrats on the cow Mike! I love seeing stuff like that, when everyone believes these bullets drop out of the sky after 200 yards! Great stuff!

A couple of cows my son and I got 2 weeks ago.

Last years meat pole at elk camp

Posted in the wrong forum

My buddies/ family and I had another ho-Hum elk season.

Very nice Buzz

Looks good, what cut is that?

Elk tenderloins…

Pic of the year.

SLM,

I strongly disagree That is the pic of the Century so far

Heck yeah. Strongly agree with that. Awesome picture!

Six year old granddaughter Anna has hunted with us for three years now. I have four grandchildren and she is the fearless one. Scared of not one thing. She’s been begging us to shoot one for a good while now. Son got a crossbow and she showed us she could shoot it well! She got her chance three weeks ago and made the most of it. She dead centered his oil pump and big brother Hutson insisted on blood trailing it for her, taking her step by step and explaining things as he went along. It was too cute. She refused to wash off the blood until that night in the bathtub.

OMG - I love this.

Thanx Scott

It will be a tough one to beat for sure.

270 Win, 145 Eld-X. Weatherby Vanguard.

MD, did you shoot that one with your 6.5 PRC? What are the particulars of what you used?
S.

Beautiful!!!

One of the absolute best photos I've seen on this site...

Pure gold pic!

The best !

👍

I agree, I hope she is a hunter all her life. Great picture.

Out duck hunting with us this week. She wants to experience it all with her older brother, daddy and Pappy (that’s me).

way cute , they are beautiful

A young lady’s first deer


Osky

Nice Osky! Congrats to her on a dandy first.

Had a heartbreaker on a giant bull, but was able to fill my cow tag, so I was thankful that we'll be grilling elk burgers this year.

Heartbreakers too often.
On a rifle hunt this year a couple of us were laid down one morning watching for elk to move up from lower meadows. Not all the zero scent gear on but pretty clean hunters. We saw two rag horns coming together from a mile or so away. They cut that distance down but we’re way out of good rifle range when a very soft breeze hit the back of my neck. Seconds later those bulls bolted a 180 and gone.
Hats off to you guys that go for them with bows, they have noses that are incredible.

Osky

that’s awesome but I’m confused how you are able to hunt and bag an animal if it is private land?? I assume you are friends with the land owner??

Posted the story earlier. Youngest daughters’ first elk

Congrats on the elk for the daughter! Way darned cool!

Great job young lady!...wait, how can she kill elk without wearing $350+ worth camo? I am so confused.

She didn’t even wear her cowboy boots when we packed him out either😁

Here's the pictures of irfubars elk this year, it's right next to ribkas.
















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Puts my bull to shame. Good shootin!

Cookie shot a few last fall, but we didn't bring any of them home.

This post needs a “LIKE” button 👍❤️

For sure!

She’s a mess. Loves me. Biggest Tomboy I’ve ever seen.

Great photos

Godogs57 - first of all, great pics of the grandkids! That stuff makes me smile.

Question about the chain link under the whitetail - is that a drag of some sort?

I was there hunting and after the hunt, planned on dragging in oats on a food plot with my tractor. The chain link fence smooths over my seed bed. I thought “well dang, just drive over there and drag his butt back to the truck”. It was in a spot inaccessible by truck. He was a big ol boy. His neck, behind the ears, was bigger around than a five gallon bucket. Took me a while to get him in my truck as I was by myself that day.

Nice!

9pt. @ 90 yards Ruger SRH 41 Magnum

That smile is priceless.

Agreed the pic of the year.

Here's the 5X5 bull I shot last November in the Wallowa Mountains on a brushy bench on a steep slope. I killed it with one shot from my Rem 700 .30-06 using a 168 grain TTSX at about 2900 fps. The bull walked past me at about 30 yards and never saw me.

Nice bull! Congrats!

Sounds like a great hunt!

Great job Bowmanh

Thanks! It was a fun hunt! It's nice when you can be one step ahead of the animals instead of vice versa.

Godogs57, you win! After seeing the kids with the Texas size grins everything else is stuff.

Very cool. I love rabbit hunting. Tell me about your setup.

Shot my first elk this year in Colorado. Not a giant bull but for a flatlander on an unguided hunt, I was happy with the results.

Duckster,

That’s a fine looking elk

Thank you. It was a great experience all around.

Good job Duckster! Looks like a fun hunt.

Beautiful bull Duckster...tell us about the rifle..

I got one last fall in Utah. Made a summer scouting trip, went about a week before archery season opened and looked some more and hunted about a week. Went home for a break then back again. Called this guy into 20 yards on 9/11 and made a great shot on him, he only went 15 yards after being hit. Freezers full.

Wow! Congratulations!

You are even shorter and uglier than I originally remember.
Are you Amish offspring, by chance?
Don’t forget those child support payments. That wooly hellhound depends on it to support her new Beau!

Thank goodness you found some flat-lander private land!

Hey Buzz.......we'll soon be out in central Wyoming......shed hunting, trout fishing (Toltec), and prairie dog shooting.

PM your address......we can discuss the 2023 elk hunting season.

What's to discuss? How you got lead around by your hand to azz shoot an elk with a 338wm? Lol

Just so you know......
I do not support tax-payer funded sex-change operations!

You and SLM, Brad too.

Sorry!

Took this goofy bull on the second to the last day. Very difficult hunting season. I have never worked harder and covered more ground to see so few elk. The winter of 2022 was extremely hard on the So. Idaho elk and deer herd.

Centershot,

Love that bull!

2nd to the last day? Couldn't you have waited?
Great job!

Sorry, not going to tell you how, or where to go about getting elk killed.

Lame on you part.

Seen several oddball bulls in the northeast corner of NV, they seem to move out of ID for the winter. 2023 was the worst hunting there in the last 10 yrs.

Uh oh.......it appears I may be in trouble.

The roundheads and blockheads are combining forces.

Such an outstanding bull - the mass on that thing! A heavy old bull is what turns my crank...

Yikes!!!!...Greenhorn actually turns your crank? You like the mass on that thing?

That is a nice sweater, Greenhorn. Gotta admit. Size small?

I mean, you could drive those little cars at the Shriners parade! Popping wheelies and going round and round. I'd clap!

Buzz could too........if we got him on the GoLo program. Those front wheels don't go up easy.

Lil' guys make good bulls look like world records.

Brad.......I could really care less whether you are cutting one off, or sewing one on.

I just don't want to pay for it.

Got some listed up for you on this thread, Michael. Size of my jacket is XL - want me to send it autographed for you? You could hang it in the closet with your Mitch Rompola memorabilia.
https://rokslide.com/forums/threads...ve-you-killed.357089/page-4#post-3615282

Kurt,

Is this fall the one we head down Norris Road on the centerline with guns out each side?

Who gets to drive?

Maybe, you're driving. I have not yet shot a bison.

Don't be jealous of THIS monster, greenhorn......grin

Enjoy the pic’s! Trophy’s all though I particularly envy those of you who put a cow elk on the ground. 👍🏼

That’s pretty funny, lil’ fella.

You could work at the carnival, if only you were coordinated enough to juggle.

I believe there is a woman for every man, even the midgets.

Don’t forget those child support payments!

Hank Kimball…….at 99 years old!

Nothing like the king size “Life Alert” around your neck. I guess it has to be armored for when you fall off a tractor so it won’t break when you hit the ground…

My adult kids and woman are all upper echelon. Far more so than the stacks of huge elk.

Good luck to you and your clan on the next outta state cow hunting expedition.

I shot an awesome black bear Friday. My daughter almost nailed a better one last night. Season is long. Enjoy that nice long Iowa spring season.

What a nice, sweet, estrogen-laden post.

#2 son shot a black bear in Lee County, Virginia.....last October. I didn't hunt, as I did much bear hunting in Canada, back when it tickled my flavor-of-the-month fancy.
Who cares?

24hourcampfire, HuntTalk, Rokslide? It appears you do more keyboard time than days spent afield.

We are heading to Wyoming this week.

Hint:
I don't require approval from internet Goobers, when things go well.

I'll be on the lookout for the clown car you're arriving in.

And I'll keep an eye out for that BHA-approved electric truck........Randy Newberg limited edition.

The one with the old Sears catalog on the drivers seat.

Be careful, Buzz. Every time you turn the steering wheel, it creates a blind spot.

He uses that thing to post hero pics of bunnies, while he's driving.

I don't agree with buzz on almost anything but on this we find common ground, Mikey is a clown in the first degree

Jack Handle........double your dose and add some Everclear.
You won't be any smarter, but you'll think you are!

With many testosterone treatments, you and Buzz can still be men.

I am rooting for you both.

The only one that needs a test booster is you old timer. But who knows maybe it's not low T, maybe you just like being a bìtch......

First time in my 65 years (58 yrs casting, reloading and hunting), hunting with and then taking a big game animal with factory ammo. Barnes Bullets 300 PRC Vor-Tx LR ammo shooting the 208 gr LRX bullet. On the mountain 9 days in a Springbar tent by myself with no connectivity. Went home and hunted last 3 days from home. Taken on the 9th day of a 9 day hunt. Thankfully help came when I called. Utah DWR says the bull's tooth aged at 12 years of age. Back straps are quite chewy. Bulk of the bull is ground meat. Can't apply for a Utah limited entry tag for 5 years which is fine by me since spikes and cows are tastier.

Dandy bull sir !!

And yep we found out how tasty spikes can be last year. Young cows as well.

Awesome bull. Cows are my favorite.