Either way, good luck on that bro. Let me know how it works out. Like I said it hits kinda close to home for me cuz my bro's situation

Once I am off probation it will be a non issue.

or should be.

It is essentially pointless probation.

Honestly if I waned to I could probably hunt all year just fine and they wouldn't even know or wouldn't really be able to do anything about it.

What I am most worried about is getting my CCW un suspeneded.

I made some fire starter/napalm that is pretty wind resistant and would work great for camping. It’s the consistency of honey which works great because it sticks to everything. Any suggestions to make it light quicker?

First kill!!

270lb 8 point buck

Noice

@grace awesome! Congratulations!!

Beautiful typical

If ya got a story behind it I'd love to read it

@Meatball Well I got up at 5 to get in early for shotgun season with my dad. Our friends have about 23 acres so we went there. I took the south he took the north. I was in a tree stand when this beautiful big buck walks right up to me only about 30yds away. I shot him (unfortunately just off the side of the gut so it was gross to field dress?) and he trotted off about 40yds and stopped so I couldn't decide if I really had hit or not. Then all of the sudden he takes off and I lose him. Never saw him to after bout 10min I got down and went to the spot where I last saw him. Apparently he wasn't too far away cuz I look over and see this buck running the other way but I didn't shoot cuz I only had one tag and couldn't decide if that was the one I had shot. I lost him again so I went back to my stand. I went to the spot where I shot him and found a pile of fur so I started lookin for blood. Took me an hour to track him but I eventually found him about 200yds away from my stand. When I found him he wasn't quite dead and I didn't want to shoot him again bcuz that ruins more meat. So for 15 minutes I watched him die before I got too close. Just in case. When he finally died I called my dad to help me take up to the shed because there's no way I could drag him by myself. Sure enough 10 minutes later he pulls up with the four-wheeler and a trailer with a deer of his own. It was super fun!

Here's him now. We are doing a european mount because he has way too beautiful of a rack to pass that up

@grace that's awesome! It's hard to track a gut shot! And that's your first?! On a 23 acre plot, to top it off?!? I bet there are gonna be man tears when the folks nearby stop seeing that beauty on their trail cams! "Where did he go??!!" 😂😂😂

I don't really agree with the euro mount myself, but to each their own

I personally think it would look better as a shoulder mount

@Meatball 😂😂 yea the only thing could have possibly gone better would be if I struck him in the lungs! I felt so cool

Got some serious girth to those beams

Yea mom said no to the shoulder mount and we know someone who was willing to do it for free so we decided it was better than nothing

😂

U are cool! Takes a real hunter to track a gut shot. That's no simple task. Seriously very impressed.

Thank you!

I thought the trail ran cold for awhile but then I found where he took a pause and there was just a puddle of blood

I know grown men that have given up on gut shots, even lung shots because the trail wasn't what they were expecting. I'd find the corpse a day or two later, torn apart by coyotes and buzzards, or sometimes intact

Well I guess im just too stubborn to let it go without getting some deer sausage out of the deal 😂

Darn right! I just had some spicy deer sausage for lunch today lmao

Nothing beats good deer sausage

Very true

My processor does a jalapeño cheddar sommer sausage that will hurt ya. Can't stop eating lol

Do yall process your own or have a place u like to take it?

Thats what ours does!! Only $3 per lb so couldn't pass that up

Oh no we aren't as experienced and don't wont to ruin it

But we do feild dress them ourselves

It's really not difficult if ya have the equipment, it's just a matter of mixing the spices

But yeh u need a place to do it, and equipment, and it'll take time to get it right

Heck yeah, u get ur face paint on?

Get good and bloody?

I remember my first deer my dad wouldn't let me go without war paint lol