Wild Game

[Anonymous No.11237907]

Hunting season is upon us, what is your favorite game meats and how do you prepare them?

[Anonymous No.11237912]

>>11237907
Dove japaleno poppers. The usual round about, but I like to pour a lil' beer or tequila on the birds after cooking. Gives it some kick, but at the same time, spice, and flavor with the bacon wrapped around it.

[Anonymous No.11237930]

killed a bunch of rattle snakes over the summer and donated them to the Hunter's BBQ in October. The guy makes nuggets out of them that are really good but no idea how he prepares them.

[Anonymous No.11238106]

Bison burgers, need to add suet to it though because it is really lean meat.

[Anonymous No.11238678]

Roasted goose on the weekends in the winter if I manage to bag one is a great comfort food.

[Anonymous No.11238682]

>>11237907
Bigfoot

[Anonymous No.11238687]

>>11238678
also roasted duck and pheasant

[Anonymous No.11238693]

pan fried deer

[Anonymous No.11238697]

country fried elk steak

[Anonymous No.11238705]

antelope jerky

[Anonymous No.11238770]

rabbit stew

I love this time of year because I can cheaply fill my freezer with an assortment of meats to last me throughout the year for very little cost, it's also a relaxing recreation.

The land where I live is teeming with game.

[Anonymous No.11238817]

>>11237907
>mfw rich faggots pay hundreds of dollars to eat 'exotic meat' when I can just drive a few miles and shoot whatever I want for a few bucks.

[Anonymous No.11238882]

elk hamburgers

[Anonymous No.11238888]

>>11238693
enjoy your liver worms

[Anonymous No.11238892]

moose roast

[Anonymous No.11238899]

>>11238888
deer liver

[Anonymous No.11238980]

>>11237907
God tier
>Bison
>Moose
>Elk

Good tier
>Caribou
>Deer
>Doll sheep

Shit tier
>Antelope
>Rabbit
>Varmints

[Anonymous No.11239015]

BBQ caribou steak, moose burgers and sausages, rabbit stew, ptarmigan stew.

[Anonymous No.11239461]

About the only thing bear is good for is sausage

[Anonymous No.11239473]

>>11238980
Antelope is pretty good unless they have been eating sage brush. If they feed on grass and alfalfa they are delicious.

[Anonymous No.11239499]

>>11238770
I'm in Colorado and we have a lot of this stuff nearby. If you have suggestions for rabbit, I'm all ears (huehue). I've only had luck with yogurt marinades. They keep everything moist on the grill.

[Anonymous No.11240029]

Gathered up a few of the neighborhood dogs and a made a halfway decent Dead Dog Soup

[Anonymous No.11240116]

They do a communal wild game dinner yearly in my area, if you can hunt it they will cook it. Ive had everything from porcupine, moose, and bear, to camel, emu, and yak. Everythings usually great and it shows you the nuances that each meat has, even if sometimes they arent nice. Personally, i favor the emu and ostrich, but kangaroo was pretty good too.

[Anonymous No.11240485]

>>11238892
Alaskan moose is the best game meat I have ever tasted. My uncle cooked me some when I went up there years ago.

[Anonymous No.11242163]

>>11238106
>bison
>game
>in 2018

[Anonymous No.11242236]

>>11242163
Bison farmers let NRA gun nuts shoot them in the pens with their assault rifles. Those types call that "hunting for sport" and the bison "game."

[Anonymous No.11242255]

>>11237907
Feral hog spit roasted

[Anonymous No.11242260]

>>11242236
do you have any examples of this happening? your wording is inflammatory and structured to enable trolling.

[Anonymous No.11242296]

>>11242236
There are wild bison refuges that you can draw a tag from the state to hunt. Bison meat is fucking delicious and if you are lucky enough to draw a tag for one it's several hundred pounds of meat for a tiny amount of money, you just have to go out and harvest it and process it. Go be a dumb fuck somewhere else.

[Anonymous No.11242303]

>>11237907
i didnt hunt last year, but im thinking this year i go out and get some duck or pheasant. any recipes?

[Anonymous No.11242437]

>>11242303
can't go wrong roasting them with your favorite spices, or dredging them in egg and flower and frying them up like chicken.

[Anonymous No.11242449]

What does wild penis taste like

[Anonymous No.11242553]

>>11240116
We have that too, as long as you have a hunting or fishing license you eat for free, there are gun raffles and all sorts of other prizes. People donate game meat so there are a lot of different game to eat.

One of my favorite events of the year in my town.

[Anonymous No.11242620]

rattle snake nuggets

[Anonymous No.11242653]

>>11242303
bake with cream of chicken and serve on top of rice.

[Anonymous No.11242833]

>>11242620
That looks good, what does rattle snake taste like?

[Anonymous No.11242873]

>>11237907
Bow season for deer in my area opens 10/1 and I'm looking forward to it. Braved the ticks last weekend and got my stand prepped in one location and my blind set up in another, both along reliable deer trails within a short walking distance. Backstraps I like to marinate in a korean kalbi marinade and grill or smoke. Tenderloins slice into 1" fillets and cook as steak. The rest of it I either make sausage, grind for meatballs, stews, chili or mexican style tacos, burritos or enchiladas. I saw the bones up and make stock with them.

Squirrels and rabbits I shoot with a .22 cal rifle. Squirrels I usually fricasee using my ozark whitetrash grandmother's recipe. Rabbit I just treat like a chicken and cook it however I would a chicken that day.

I'm a gay liberal btw, if that makes any difference.

[Anonymous No.11243010]

Frying dove breasts in bacon grease is probably the tastiest piece of meat I have ever had. Too bad it's hard too shoot enough of them to make a meal out of.

[Anonymous No.11243019]

>>11242873
lemme ax you a question
they make what looks like a rifle, it's powered by compressed air and shoots arrows. would that be considered legal to use during bow season?

[Anonymous No.11243029]

>>11243019
No

[Anonymous No.11243046]

>>11243019
Can't even use crossbow during bow season, have to wait for the general season.

[Anonymous No.11243056]

>>11243046
ok, thanks, good to know. I was thinking of getting one as a novelty item so I don't expect it to have much range or accuracy. but if it turns out it does, it's good to know when I can and can't use it

[Anonymous No.11243085]

>>11243056
You need to look up the hunting regulations in your state, they are all different.

[Anonymous No.11243095]

>>11243019
That depends entirely on your state/country/local laws.

Where I used to live that would be considerd a "firearm" and you'd hunt at the same time as rifle season. Where I live now they are flat-out banned, period.

>>11243056
Check your local laws, random internet anons that don't know where you live cannot help you.

[Anonymous No.11243174]

Muzzle loading master race reporting in.

[Anonymous No.11243182]

>>11243174
kek. i think you mean primitive archer. muzzleloaders are the pipe smoking fags of the hunting scene.

[Anonymous No.11243189]

>>11243182
>primitive archer
>master race

Muzzle loaders exterminated the primitive archers.

[Anonymous No.11243199]

>>11243182
You mean spear chucking.

[Anonymous No.11243255]

>>11243046
In my area they made crossbows legal for bow season a few years ago which I'm happy about. A lot less margin for error and I want a comfortable heart/lung shot for a quick kill - stressed adrenaline pumped meat is inferior. I can be certain of an immediate kill shot with a crossbow at 40 yards. Also, fuck that possibility of gutshot or muscle shot when you have to track for hours to find it. Not fun. And if you throw up your hands when you know you hit it and say fuck it, can't find it, there's a special place in hell reserved for you.

[Anonymous No.11243326]

>>11243255
>And if you throw up your hands when you know you hit it and say fuck it, can't find it, there's a special place in hell reserved for you.

I agree, but if you lose the blood trail there is not much that tou can do and of the animal goes out of the zone you risk a hefty fine.

[Anonymous No.11243445]

Does trout count as wild game?

[Anonymous No.11243809]

>>11243445
Sure, got any recipes?

[Anonymous No.11243824]

>>11243809
Trout

[Anonymous No.11244178]

>>11243809

Just a squeeze of lemon, salt and garlic. Put it in the oven to roast.

Alternatively, Iraqi fills them with bitter oranges and mint, sugar and salt. Then roast.

[Anonymous No.11244191]

Does killing game get easier? I really squeamish about killing large mammals. I want to get into hunting but the kill seems like a big hurdle if you didn’t grow up with it.

[Anonymous No.11244240]

>>11244191
Violence and exploitation has to be imprinted onto children at an early age, otherwise it's harder to overcome your natural God driven desire for love and peace.

[Anonymous No.11244293]

>>11244191
Most people don't like watching animals suffer, they go for clean kiills or they won't take the shot. Hunting takes patience. You will ruin a large portion of good meat with a bad shot.

[Anonymous No.11244320]

>>11244293
>>11244191

It is actually better for the environment if you hunt (and buy less meat fro the rest of the year.)

[Anonymous No.11244322]

>>11244191
I got into hunting as an adult. The kill never bothered me--it's a fact of life that things die to feed me. Even if I was vegan there would still be animal dealths involved.

The butchering was the biggest hurdle for me, and yeah it gets easier.

>>11244293
Very true.

[Anonymous No.11244352]

>>11244191
>>11244293
>>11244322
Behold the natural born ferocity of the apex of the food chain.

[Anonymous No.11244364]

>>11244352
Animals are tasty and aren't an enemy, when we kill each other there is animosity and hatred behind it.

[Anonymous No.11244456]

>>11242553
Sounds like it works the same as ours, raffle is sponsered by a gunstore from our province usually.

[Anonymous No.11244834]

>>11242833
probably poultry since it's all muscle

[Anonymous No.11245050]

>>11242833
Tastes like Gator tail.

[Anonymous No.11245203]

>>11238705
I used to have a smoker and that is what I did with Antelope. Met a local guy who makes the most delicious smoked meats and he does it for cost.

[Anonymous No.11245279]

Killing and eating animals is the only thing stopping me from quitting my job and moving to California and killing and eating Californians.

[Anonymous No.11246427]

>>11238980
Based AF

t.Canuckistani hunter. Shot an Alberta elk last year. God damn.

[Anonymous No.11246431]

>>11243174
>Muzzle loading
WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU. SPEAK UP.
Them fuckers are loud.

[Anonymous No.11246465]

>>11242620
are rattle snakes safe to eat? florida says not to eat burmese pythons due to high mercury

[Anonymous No.11246590]

I don't get out hunting much anymore, am thinking about raising rabbits in my backyard for stew meat, do you guys think this is worthwhile?

[Anonymous No.11246616]

I hunt with a 55-lb recurve bow.
Hares and pheasants.
There are plenty of deer around but I just don't trust myself to take a shot at one. People say a decent broadhead on a 55-lb will kill a deer but I don't want to miss the vitals and leave it injured.
Still, hared and pheasant are both lovely for simmering or stewing. And practically free.
Protip; paint your arrows white.

[Anonymous No.11246634]

>>11237907
im so excited for hunting season I can barely sleep.
>venison neck roast
>backstrap medallions with juniper pomegranate reduction
>duck confit
>snow goose chili
>every kind of sausage known to man. Mostly venison kok korv
ugh i cant wait. 7 days away from opening day of archery. boom.

Oddly enough I have yet to kill a wild turkey. there are a million of them around, but Im usually just deer hunting and i tell myself ill kill a turkey if one comes along, but I haven't gone out of my way to plan a full turkey hunt. Maybe I'll do that this year. Can anyone vouch for wild turkey?

[Anonymous No.11246680]

>>11244322
>I got into hunting as an adult

I am looking to get into hunting now as an adult as well.
Any tips on where to learn the knowledge to hunt/butcher a kill? Are there classes or did you just do trial and error?

[Anonymous No.11246692]

>had some relatives who used to go hunting all the time
>they all died when I was little
>will never get to learn to hunt with them
It seems like a really big commitment to make if you don't know anyone else who can teach you about it and borrow things from. Is there a smart, practical way to go about trying it out cheaply in that case, or no?

[Anonymous No.11246697]

>>11246680
>Any tips on where to learn the knowledge to hunt/butcher a kill?
I bought a book on the subject years ago. There are lots of those--books for hunters, books for people learning to be butchers or meatpackers, and books that discuss old-timey skills like the famous "Foxfire" books. These days I'm sure you can just google it and find a zillion guides and YT videos too.

>>Classes
Yes, there are classes. Some states cover a bit of that in their mandatory hunter safety courses. You can also find them at community colleges or farms. I've taken a hog butchery class at a local farm which raises expensive heritage breed pigs for meat.

[Anonymous No.11246719]

>>11246616
I bag deer with a 38lb compound bow with broad heads. Just make a clean shot, double lung it or heart and lung it.

[Anonymous No.11246745]

>>11246616
I hunt with a crossbow and at first I worried about a gut shot but I just practiced to the point I was very confident within 30 meters. Also I pass up shots all the time unless I know I'll hit the heart/lung. In 6 years I haven't screwed up yet and always have found it down within 100 meters. If you're a good enough shot to hit hares and pheasant you won't miss the vitals unless you panic. Use expandables they leave a very visible blood trail.

[Anonymous No.11246762]

>>11246680
I watched a few youtube videos to learn to butcher a deer. It's not difficult, but a sharp knife is critical. Also a hand held meat hook is helpful to hold the carcass while you're cutting.

[Anonymous No.11246798]

>>11246680
there is no better way than to find somebody who knows and ahve him show you

[Anonymous No.11246800]

>>11246745
>Also I pass up shots all the time unless I know I'll hit the heart/lung.
And that's all it takes.

You don't have to have mad skillz, you just have to be confident in what skills do you do have, and only take shots that you know you can make.

[Anonymous No.11247090]

Deer is pretty decent for making fajitas.

[Anonymous No.11247298]

>>11237907
My butcher makes chorizo from venison and I eat that several times per week with eggs, onions, cilantro, and tortillas.

I also sometimes mix the chorizo with cream cheese and stuff various peppers with the mixture.

Venison chili is also a staple for me.

[Anonymous No.11247308]

>>11245279
There's great hunting in California. They have deer, hogs, elk, dove, pheasant, quail, turkey, grouse.....

[Anonymous No.11247314]

>>11247308
>California

stay there

[Anonymous No.11247315]

>>11243010
We had an insane dove opener this year. 10 guys getting limit in one field.

[Anonymous No.11247317]

>>11247314
>he doesn't travel from his flyover hovel to hunt the world

[Anonymous No.11247341]

>>11247317

>He pays $1000 a month to live in a shipping container

[Anonymous No.11247455]

>>11247341
This actually looks maximum comfy. Hopefully it’s in the middle of no where and not some suburban shithole

[Anonymous No.11247461]

>>11247455
I'm sure it's very comfy if you hate showers and fresh air.
And yeah, I did realise where I am while I was typing that. Carry on.

[Anonymous No.11247516]

>>11247315
nice, went out over the weekend and only got two

[Anonymous No.11247808]

Louisianna Hot Links made out of deer meat.

[Anonymous No.11247926]

Old ass American niggas killed this many Buffalos and DID NOT EAT ANY OF THEM

[Anonymous No.11247987]

>>11247926
based

[Anonymous No.11248356]

>>11247926
They killed a lot more than that, niggah. Your friendly neighborhood wh*te reduced the population of bison from the 8 figures just for the hide to 300 within 20 years. Literal devils' act and it continues to this day.

[Anonymous No.11248402]

My venison brine's base is apple juice. The natural sugar in the juice acts in the place of the sugar that would normally be called for in a brine. The the brine gets a lot of the blood out of the meat and the very subtle apple flavor helps to cut back on the gaminess even more. Other flavorings in the brine are thyme, peppercorns, and bay. An apple or pommegranate glaze near the end of grilling is also a bit plus.

[Anonymous No.11248485]

>>11248356
Little known historical fact: 1 out of every 5 "cowboys" or westerners engaged in that sort of work were black.

[Anonymous No.11248693]

Northern Maine here, next week begins about two months of eating partridge daily.

[Anonymous No.11248779]

>>11248693
Never shot a partridge. Plenty of pheasants, but the usual here in Minnesota tends to be grouse. Fun hunt, basically a walk with the dog. They taste really good with some berries and herbs. I feel bad for citiots who don't shoot birds. Poor bastards.

[Anonymous No.11248820]

i went to visit my rural and suburban retard family and there was a local butcher that raised and slaughtered lambs, really good, they also had 50 deers processed into venison in the back but they wouldn't sell me any, it wasn't legal they said, they just give the venison away to the hungry, i said i was hungry, give me the venison, but no dice

i have yet to taste venison

[Anonymous No.11248832]

>>11237907
Deer salami.

[Anonymous No.11249522]

>>11248820
based canadian poster

[Anonymous No.11250806]

>>11248820
hahah
it was a good try

[Anonymous No.11250834]

is wild turkey good? i have 100 of those fuckers in my yard every morning. Thinking about getting a hunting license just to try one.

[Anonymous No.11250914]

>>11248820
Do you still hear the lambs?

[Anonymous No.11251054]

I'm a faggot that cares about animals feelings and the environment but I still don't want to hunt them myself. How can I find a hunter that'll sell me some meat?

[Anonymous No.11251089]

>>11251054
>How can I find a hunter that'll sell me some meat
this is flat out illegal and almost no hunter will do it. If you DO find a hunter that will do it, he won't be one that has a reputation or ethics anywhere near the caliber of somebody i would accept raw meat from.

[Anonymous No.11251113]

>>11251089
>ethics
Tell me, bootlicking faggot, what is unethical about selling meat you have in surplus?

[Anonymous No.11251231]

>>11251113
Not him, fagboi, but the people illegally selling game meat are the kinds of people who violate game laws by poaching, spotlighting at night, etc., grossly unethical behavior.

[Anonymous No.11251246]

>>11251113
>>11251231
yep. And guys that jack deer are generally not properly cooling the carcass, hanging, or even cleaning the bladder and anus properly to avoid contamination.

Selling meat is just not a thing that ethical hunters do. Hunters generally are good about giving meat away. I give away about half of what i harvest and that's the norm, not the exception. Anyone who is selling the shit is pretty sketch.

And i realize this is an arbitrary distinction from, say, commercial fishing. But commercial fishing is legal and regulated and commercial hunting isn't.

source: ethical hunter for 20 years.

[Anonymous No.11251251]

>>11246634
You'd probably like a lot of Hank Shaw's recipes, the neck roast and pomegranate/juniper medallions make me think you've already used a few of his recipes.

I think one of my favorites is venison steak Diane done with backstraps, but I also really like a lot of his meatball recipes and stews.

https://honest-food.net/

[Anonymous No.11251264]

>>11237907
Reminder not to eat deer in the US.

[Anonymous No.11251267]

>>11251251
Hah, i do have a copy of Buck Buck Moose. Before I knew about Hank Shaw, me and a friend were putting together a wild game cookbook to pitch to a publisher, then somebody was like, uh, here.

[Anonymous No.11251362]

>>11248356
But then why would you not esat them?

[Anonymous No.11251371]

>>11251362
Same reason they didn't eat otter

[Anonymous No.11251529]

>>11251054
all poachers should be shot and left in a shallow grave in the middle of nowhere.

[Anonymous No.11251706]

>>11251264
Yeah it will raise your test levels dangerously and might interfere with all that soy in your system.

[Anonymous No.11251716]

>>11247341
>$1000
>expensive

You guys are funny.

I used ground venison last night to make asian lettuce wraps and it was a resounding success. Everybody was raving about it.

[Anonymous No.11251997]

Is there a guide for processing deer?

I wouldn't even know where or how to begin.

[Anonymous No.11252059]

>>11251997
First off, google "field dressing deer." A lot of ways to do it and they all are effective. It's basically removing the entrails in one bundle w/o piercing digestive or urinary components which can contaminate meat and should be done immediately after the kill in the field. Next, google "butchering deer." Basically hanging, skinning, removing head, backstraps, tenderloins, quartering and removing the meat from the bones in roasts and sawing up the ribs. Do the best you can with the roasts but don't get anal about it, some can be a little tricky.

[Anonymous No.11252113]

>>11246692
>>11246680
Hunter ed classes can be a good place to meet other hunters and learn skills. For other resources consider Steve Rinella’s books on hunting, butchering and cooking game. They’re a pretty solid 101 textbook for a new hunter.

[Anonymous No.11252160]

>>11237907
Venison Tenderloin Marsala

Venison tenderloin, shallots, garlic, mushrooms, beef broth, marsala wine (red wine will also work), wild rice, salt and pepper
>slice into very thin medallions about 1/4 an inch thick. dredge in flour and set aside
>heat some oil in a pan and flash fry the medallions in small batches being careful not to cook them all the way through. set aside
>add a generous knob of butter and toss in the sliced mushrooms. once browned/caramelized, add a bit more oil or butter and toss in the sliced shallots and minced garlic. don't burn the fucking garlic
>deglaze pan with about 1/2 cup of the wine. and make sure to scrape up the browned bits.
>add about a cup of beef broth and stir, setting the heat down to medium low. Let the liquid reduce by about half.
>add the venison medallions, reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer an additional five minutes
>serve over a bed of wild rice and enjoy with a nice cabernet or merlot.

This is more or less the process but I'm too lazy to go up and look at the actual recipe. Growing up in the north Georgia mountains, this was winter comfort food at it's finest for me.

[Anonymous No.11252175]

>>11240029
I'll have to try that. I had some Living Dog Soup once and the dog bit me in the face and then got soapy water everywhere. Would not recommend.

[Anonymous No.11252192]

>>11246634
Wild turkey is amazing. I grew up having wild turkey around thanksgiving. My dad would usually smoke one, fry one, and we'd bake one. Turkey season in the United States is in the spring though so it might be too late for that unless you just want to kill a turkey on sight. Watch out for game wardens!

[Anonymous No.11252223]

>>11247308
Is it at all worth it to learn hunting if I'm living in the Inland Empire area? I don't have the resources to go on hunting trips in other parts of the California so I'm stuck in the local area. What worries me is that it seems that most large animals have completely vacated the area. The only things I can think of to hunt are the mountain sheep.

[Anonymous No.11252286]

>>11252192
we have spring and fall wild turkey hunting seasons in Wyoming

[Anonymous No.11252332]

>>11252192
thanks for the info. where i live theres both a fall and a spring season, but the tag is good for either (not both)

So fall turkey it is!

[Anonymous No.11252399]

field dressing process:
>shoot yourself a deer
>approach your dead deer, take your obligatory pictures, etc. ideally its a cold day. if it's hot, you better move quick, kemosabe.
>i like to get my deer up in the air for the gutting if i can. I keep a little block and tackle in my backpack that i can use to get the deer's head up off the ground, even if just 4 or 5 feet. if you gotta do it on the ground, it's no big deal. it's just helpful to have gravity pulling the offal away .
>step one, cut a circular hole with the knife around the deer's B hole. this is basically making a donut out of his sphincter. cut the circle and come back to it later.
>step 2 cut his belly from the genitals to the diaphragm. step back - a bunch of blood is going to come out. don't go too deep. you dont want to cut the intestines or the stomach. Pull the liver if you want to keep it, everything else is trash. some injuns keep the stomach but fuck that. it's all trash. let it fall out of the cavity you made onto the ground. if you do it right, you basically just have the bladder and one line of intensives from the guts to the asshole (that you previously cut in a circle.. remember?) pop the asshole Into the cavity and out the top. or keep it like a fleshlight if you're a faggot.
>ideally the bladder will be outside the cavity. just cut it and let the piss hit the ground.
>next cut from the diaphragm to the top of the ribcage. more blood. if you were a good shot, there shouldn't be much in here. the lungs will be shredded. If you hit the heart (bummer) it's trash. if you missed it, save it. Deer heart is awesome.
>next comes the kinda gruesome part. you gotta reach all the way up into the neck, like shoulder deep, to cut the trachea as close to the mouth as you can.
>once ya do that, the rest of the offal will fall out. You can eat just about anything north of the diaphragm, but keep it to the heart. The lungs are kinda tasteless.
>DO NOT EAT THE BRAIN.

[Anonymous No.11252721]

My dad is going elk hunting, looking forward to getting a big bag of elk burger.

[Anonymous No.11253079]

>>11252399
The only thing I can see you missing in your description is having to slice the membranes along the ribcage skeletal structure because often the gut bundle gets caught by that. No criticism, just probably you forgot about listing it but it's important.

[Anonymous No.11253779]

>>11253079
They usually tear out if the deer is elevated when you gut it, but yeah if you’re doing it on the ground this is a bit of a pain in the ass

[Anonymous No.11253898]

>11238817
>mfw working class faggots drive a few miles and shoot whatever I want when I can break into a crackers house a take what I want included his wife and daughter for free

[Anonymous No.11254040]

>>11253898
based nigger poster

[Anonymous No.11254402]

>>11252721
Had a girlfriend that had a dad that would always give me ground meat from Alaskan moose. Stuff was really good.

[Anonymous No.11254496]

This is going to be my first big game hunt. I'm using a savage .308 bolt action. Does anyone have any luck just going out and winging it? I'm anxious to get a buck, but I didn't prep beforehand. Don't even have a tree stand. I plan on either ground hunting or just finding a good tree and climbing it if I have to.

[Anonymous No.11254580]

Are parasites and slippery worms common in wild game? How do I cook it properly? All I've done is boiled goose for the past 20 years of my life and I think I'm finished.

[Anonymous No.11254603]

>>11254496
That’s not hunting it’s hoping to get lucky. I spend 6 months prepping for my hunting season

[Anonymous No.11254667]

>>11254603
That's what I was afraid of. I'm still going to go, I'm jus going to keep my expectations relatively low. Maybe I'll make a quick diy tree stand or blind so I have better odds

[Anonymous No.11254833]

>>11254496
Yeah, it'll be fine. Just blast away.

[Anonymous No.11254846]

>>11254603
That's not hunting, that's being autistic.

>>11254496
The main thing is just identify an area with deer trails and observable scat. Find some ground cover or comfortable spot in a tree to hide in and wait. Make sure you know where housing is so you don't shoot in that direction. Wear camo clothing. Early morning or a few hours before sunset is the best time. In the middle of the day you can quietly walk along the trails to try and spook them out of their beds but it will have to be a shot while they're running so you'd better be good.

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>>11254603
You must be joking, I'm already prepping for the 2020 season.

[Anonymous No.11255005]

>>11251089
>this is flat out illegal
>>11251246
>commercial fishing is legal and regulated and commercial hunting isn't

I actually didn't know that. That's a pity but I guess there's a reason for it.

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>>11255005
You can buy farmed elk, bison, and venison.

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>>11254496
You're fucking stupid and shouldn't be hunting.

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>>11242873
Storm?

[Anonymous No.11255315]

>>11254846
>In the middle of the day you can quietly walk along the trails to try and spook them out of their beds but it will have to be a shot while they're running so you'd better be good.
DO
NOT
FUCKING
DO
THIS
WITH
A
.308

dont shoot flat with a rifle if you don't know what you're doing. the bullet will travel miles (yes, plural, with an s) with enough velocity to kill whatever it hits. If you're going to hunt amateur hour, get your fucking ass up in a tree and shoot down so the bullet at least goes harmlessly into the ground when you miss. im serious. do not shoot flat. its untrained psychos like you that make the woods dangerous.

what he's describing is still hunting - it's an oxymoron because you're actually moving the whole time. But don't fucking do it with a 30 cal rifle, unless its a 30-30.

go out on a day thats drizzly so it will depress your sent and your footsteps. move painstakingly slow. one step, then scan the woods for movement. one step. scan again. one step. it shoudl take you all day to go a quarter mile. Deer arent as dumb as you think. they will let you walk right past them and then bolt the other direction. With every step you can see 20% more of the woods. my god i cant even believe im telling you how to do this. never mind, go to a hunter safety course. walk around the woods for a whole damn year til you get to know it so you know what shots are safe and what shots arent.

like, seriously, what the fuck are you going to do if you shoot a 175 lb deer half a mile from your car?

do NOT do this.

[Anonymous No.11255340]

>>11255315
I saw some retard shooting deer with 7.62 NATO.
Richochets everywhere.

[Anonymous No.11255351]

>>11255340
AAAAAAH it makes me never want to go in the woods again. at least it wasn't a .223. i would LOVE to be able to still hunt but i just dont trust the orange army of untrained retards like OP walking around shooting at anything that moves.

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>>11255351
There was a thread on here a while back where some bong shot a muntjac deer with a .338 Lapua and pretty much blew the animal to bits.
Fucking dumb.

[Anonymous No.11255378]

Does anyone else not bother with butchering the whole deer? Only good thing on the deer is it's backstraps anyways, the rest can just be fed to the coyotes.

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>>11255378
This is a waste and you are a fucking faggot. If you kill it, you eat it.

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>>11255416
>>responding to obvious bait

[Anonymous No.11255497]

>>11255362
yah everyone right now has a such a hard-on for .338 lapua and 6.5 creedmore cuz they want to shoot a thousands yards. Ive killed dozens of deer and every one of them has been within 50 yards. If you can't get that close to an animal you have no business hunting. I don't mean you shouldn't take 100 or even 200 yard shots. its fine. but you're not a damn sniper taking out the taliban, you're a fucking hunter. ughhhhhh.

[Anonymous No.11255539]

Just moved onto 80 acres in Central/Semi-Blue Ridge Virginia. Never been a hunter, but always have been an avid shooter. Seriously depending on taking it up again. Lived with and have tons of family who hunt, but I was never a fan of killing the animal if I didn't need to. I understand it's not logical since I eat meat and the animals are killed either way. Long story short, I'm another guy who isn't quite sure how he feels about killing an animal, but I understand why it's good for the environment and all that. Cognitive dissonance.

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>>11255539
I don't enjoy killing the animal, but I enjoy the hunt and having a freezer full of meat.

[Anonymous No.11255579]

What guns do you guys typically use to hunt deer with? I just use an old Remington 12ga with slugs.

[Anonymous No.11255591]

>>11255539
for real watch out for the bear hunters in GWNF. I ran the camera for a hunt with some of those guys a few years back. what a bunch of coked-up psychos. Drinking their homemade swill. its not shine.. its some kind of fermented yeast based drink that "works" for a couple months in a plastic trash can. Like, they live in squalor but have $70,000 trucks, 70" plasma tvs and satellite collars on their dogs. When they go "hunting" they let their dogs go in the woods, then they stand around and drink nips and do blow while they watch their dogs on a laptop. then when the dogs are in a circle, they know they got a bear in a tree and they walk out in the dark and shoot it. Then they do more blow, fuck each other's sister/wives and whatever else. GWNF is public land, but they act like they own it and burn any trucks that encroach on their bait piles. These guys hunted Second mountain almost exclusively. Anyway, avoid at all costs.

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>>11255579
I own 4 deer guns. i use whichever one is the right tool for the property and style im hunting.
>.270
>.30/30
>muzzleloader
>savage axis rifled slug gun .20 ga

You want to be able to get the job done accurately and quickly, but you also dont want to blow the deer to kingdom come. After all, you want to be able to eat what remains.

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>>11255579
winchester model 70 30-06

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>>11254040
reported

[Anonymous No.11256080]

>>11255578
Fair. I didn't mean to imply that people enjoy the kill itself. I just have a feeling that it would actually bother me and I'd have a lingering feeling of regret. As pussy as that sounds, it's true.

>>11255591
Jesus Christ, I had no idea. Was actually going to go do some hiking or backpacking out around there in the next few weeks once it dries out after all this fucking rain. God damnit I hate faggots like that. Will definitely keep an eye out. God DAMNIT that pisses me off to hear about bullshit like this. Absolute scum of the earth. May they burn in the fieriest depths of hell for all eternity. Just looked up the location of Second Mountain and that's definitely around the area that my buddies and I would be out exploring and hiking and stuff. Thanks for the heads up.

[Anonymous No.11256115]

>>11256080
yeah man stick to SNP or the ORV areas of GWNF for hiking. no hunting allowed in there. The hunters dont bother going near any of the ORV spots because the jeeps scare all the animals away.

[Anonymous No.11256273]

>>11255315
I'm not the guy you responded to, but the guy who poste about having the savage .308 and deer hunting for the firs time. While I am new to big game hunting, I'm not an idiot. If I'm ground hunting with a .308, I'm going to trek the higher ground and scout for deer below me. I have a good scope and binoculars, an would probably look for the best spot with the longest view to start. I don't intend to tramp through the woods looking to shoot a deer close range. I can see where you would assume that though. My biggest problem is that I'm new to Oregon, I didn't have trail cameras, and have never set up feed plots. I've done research on the area, but only topography.

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>>11256273
>I'm going to trek the higher ground and scout for deer below me.
the thing to know is what's behind your shot. trees? houses? flat? a valley? the best answer is earth.

if you're doing a true west coast style spot and stalk, you probably want to two-man it. know whats behind your shot, and get a range finder to go with your nice binoculars and your .308. good luck.

[Anonymous No.11256409]

>>11256115
Cheers, will do. Ill pass on the info to my buddy as well. I still don't know the Blue Ridge areas very well, but there is obviously tons of room to wander around. I'll avoid the Second Mountain area for sure though. I have zero interest in getting into it with some junkie rednecks. Been there, done that. God damn they ruin everyone else's time. I've only been here a month, so I've got tons of time to find some regular spots I like.