The Hunting Times

Well we have had about 8 deer in the freezer waiting for a day that we could all get together and process them.  I do have to give a shout out to Bill H.  He went to Texas and helped a ranch cull their deer herd.  He had so many tags to fill that he brought me back six deer.  Thank you, Thank You! It may sound like a lot of meat, but the deer in Texas are not like the deer here in Indiana.  The six deer I got only provided 100# of meat.  But hey, that's more than I had.  Recall from earlier posts that I got O-Ferred this year.  Nada.  So I'll take it.  Nick and Davey helped me clean and bag those deer. So anyway, we spent most of the day yesterday, Saturday, 21 APR processing deer (Nick added his two to the pot, for another 75#).  Nick, Davey, Alex, and I drove down to Rob V's in Montezuma, IN.  Rob made us a wonderful breakfast and then we got to work. We put in 18# of deer, 7# of pork and seasonings before grinding it t...

We have had several encounters with coyotes here on the ranch lately.  Mostly they are "playing" with the dogs.  There have been a few cats that we have not seen in a while.  We suspect they have fallen prey, but cannot confirm this. In any event, we got a nice evening with little wind, so Alex and I went out to call.  We ended up only having two Great Horned Owls buzz our heads - which was totally awesome - but no coyotes. Light quickly fading as we call in owls

Wow.  It's been a while since I have posted anything to this here blog.  Apologies to my long-time subscribers for keeping you in the dark.  I did not, however, truly appreciate my time off.  Been very busy working around the ranch - but that's for another post.  This one is all about fun... So twice a year, the Knob Creek Gun Range shuts down for an entire week-end to allow Class 3 firearms to rule the range.  That's right, we are talking full-auto machine guns of all sorts.  You know, the stuff that drives the Liberals Bat Shit Crazy. So, a group of us took off from here and drove the three hours down to West Point, KY to partake.  No, we do not own any of those types of firearms, BUT you can rent them from folks who do - and that is exactly what we did. The weather did not cooperate too well.  It was a torrential downpour all the way down.  Then it rained most of the morning, but lightly.  Finally the sun came out and we ha...