A few different spots I have sat for deer this year.
Hunting & Fishing Pics out of or from your blind or stand.
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Let me tell you a story about the three little corn stealing raccoons….. They would take turns climbing up and spinning out the corn.
Robbery stopped in progress…. 300BO with REAP-IR from a ground blind, 90 yards…..
Robbery stopped in progress…. 300BO with REAP-IR from a ground blind, 90 yards…..
Honest question, how good are racoons to eat? I ask because my friend, John (RIP), would hunt most anything and he would can squirrel meat, take his share of whitetail doe on his aunt's property, even though he had a lifetime hunting license. He and his cousin got a feral hog one time and I smoked it on my charcoal grill with logs of mesquite wood (mesquite trees grow like weeds where I live.)
I consider myself a bit of a gourmand of the game meats. Heck, I eat the heart and liver of turkeys and chickens. And I have eaten menudo with my mexican colleagues in my work world. And I still want to try haggis, some day.
Haggis....is for sissy's. Now, if you are not Norwegian and can eat lutefisk you are a real man! haha Makes gefilte fish look like prime rib! haha
I wouldn’t and never had raccoon. Some say it’s ok. They are invasive species here and they along with coyotes and pigs estroy our turkey population….. They along with coyotes get shot on site.
Coons are good eating. But it's an acquired taste.
Just be sure to cook it well done as they, like bears and some other wild crittets, can carry numerous parasites that can infect humans.
I parboil mine on medium-low until the meat is falling off the bone with vinegar, salt and red pepper.
When it's done drain immediately, never let it cool off in the water.
Next I spread the pieces out in a baking pan and add vinegar based bbq sauce and top with sliced onions then broil it in the oven or put it on the grill until the sauce is glazed and the onion slices about done.
Fox, Bobcat, Armadillo, Beaver and bbq'd rattlesnake is pretty good eating too.
Shore 'nuff honest to goodness real Scottish haggis is on my list of things to try too.
And now back to the original subject..
A wee tad foggy this morning.
A wee tad foggy this morning.
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Prob not what you had in mind, but goose pit on MD's eastern shore. Sucks now...bag is one bird/man, season cut way back, and very few birds.
And now I am really hungry, dang it. I went hunting this morning and got nothing but a runny nose and exercise.
Various locations I have stalked and set at in the Caddo (pronounced locally as kay-dough) National Grasslands WMA. Specifically, the Bois D'Arc area (pronounced locally as bow - dark. Bow as in bow tie or bow and arrow.) 901 N, which has a few different sections. I have not yet hunted the Ladonia section (901 S.) This season, I have seen feral hog sign and also deer sign in the southern part of the big section north of fm 409. When I say fresh sign, I mean still moist deer raisins near an oak tree with a king's feast of acorns on the ground. That would be the first pic. The other pics are from the northern most sector, which I went to on Thursday. The wind was out of the south and you always want to hunt with your nose to the wind.
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I was having serious back issues and was resigned to going right out behind the cabin. After a while I stopped even doing that because I knew I wouldn't be able to drag anything if I shot it. Gun season kind of sucked.
My season ended same way it started, hot, sticky and tormented by skeeters...
My view of the meat market this past week.
Note to self: Remember to close AND latch the stand door between uses.
I once climbed into a buddy’s elevated box blind in the pre-dawn hours, which had a completely vertical ladder beneath the blind leading to a hole in the floor (cramped space for the blind made bottom access necessary). The access hatch had been left open, and I came face to face with a veritable herd of adult raccoons. Nearly fell off the ladder.Note to self: Remember to close AND latch the stand door between uses.
100 yards out from a ladder right before he died…. REAP IR 60mm MKII shooting 300BO Hornady 110g GMax.
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I like your driveway and I am just a little bit envious. And by a little bit, I mean a lot.How about my driveway
This is my portable blind/turkey crawler. I got my little boy the new Remington 870FP (Fisher Price). If they try to get away just crank it up and chase em down. Works every time. Without fail.
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Nebraska turkey hunt this weekend. No turkey's, just cold, high winds and rain.
Granddaughter with a crossbow
And she's out!
Granddaughter with a crossbow
And she's out!
