Anyone get venison yet ?

Jim F said:
I am, when I can.
Got 1 a few years ago, 3 blocks from the Hospital.
Ritzy neighborhood.
Cop had to shoot it, even helped me load it.
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I found out that if you put your hunting tag on a road kill it is considered poaching, but you can call the local LEO and get a road kill tag for that same deer for free, and then it is perfectly legal to take it home. Most LEO are more than happy to finish off a wounded deer for you.
 
This was my 41st year of hunting. As RJ pointed out, our rifle season just ended, but the season that I really enjoy starts tomorrow... muzzleloader.

I enjoy sitting in my stand. I almost always see deer while sitting. I have still hunted quite a bit too, but I all of my big bucks have come from sitting in my stand. This year was rather neat because it was the first time I hunted on my 22 acres. Seen a few bucks and a number of does over opening weekend. I will not shoot a doe up here because I feel that there are not enough deer as it is. None of the bucks were even close to being big enough to shoot. I try to shoot bucks at least as big as I have harvested before, preferably bigger, but that is getting hard to do as I have shot some pretty nice bucks.
The problem I have is the county just to the north of me has a doe harvest quota of zero, mostly due to wolves. The county I live in has a doe harvest quota of 2. That is way too high when 15 miles to the north of me the quota is zero.
Anyhow, so far I have enjoyed the hunt this year and am looking forward to the muzzleloader season.
 
Loaded up!

I don't hunt, but I let a couple of guys hunt on the farm in exchange for help on equipment and stuff. So far, one guy has gotten two bucks, which he kept, and three does which I got. Just got up from some spaghetti and venison meatballs. Other than a steak, I pretty much like venison better than beef.

My next door neighbor's son got a 14-point buck a week or so ago. Measured 171.75.

Regards
 
tjb said:
Loaded up!

I don't hunt, but I let a couple of guys hunt on the farm in exchange for help on equipment and stuff. So far, one guy has gotten two bucks, which he kept, and three does which I got. Just got up from some spaghetti and venison meatballs. Other than a steak, I pretty much like venison better than beef.

My next door neighbor's son got a 14-point buck a week or so ago. Measured 171.75.

Regards
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We are allowed 1 buck and doe are first come, Elk are lottery.
I have 2 doe tags for 2 different WMU's,
 
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7milesup said:
This was my 41st year of hunting. As RJ pointed out, our rifle season just ended, but the season that I really enjoy starts tomorrow... muzzleloader.

I enjoy sitting in my stand. I almost always see deer while sitting. I have still hunted quite a bit too, but I all of my big bucks have come from sitting in my stand. This year was rather neat because it was the first time I hunted on my 22 acres. Seen a few bucks and a number of does over opening weekend. I will not shoot a doe up here because I feel that there are not enough deer as it is. None of the bucks were even close to being big enough to shoot. I try to shoot bucks at least as big as I have harvested before, preferably bigger, but that is getting hard to do as I have shot some pretty nice bucks.
The problem I have is the county just to the north of me has a doe harvest quota of zero, mostly due to wolves. The county I live in has a doe harvest quota of 2. That is way too high when 15 miles to the north of me the quota is zero.
Anyhow, so far I have enjoyed the hunt this year and am looking forward to the muzzleloader season.
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We have enough deer here that I will take a doe, they taste better..
We don't have wolves, but we do have 'yotes, almost as bad.......
We have a doe only ML in Oct for 1 week and a flash-bang after Christmas here.
 
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PA finally gave us 3 Sunday hunting days, 1 Archery, 1 Bear, 1 deer rifle.......
They also blessed us with Semi for small game and furbearers.......
Added benefit, we can use thermal/IR for furbearers now.....
 
I didn't know CWD was so prevalent? That sounds like a big problem? Are you not afraid to eat the meat and get CJD (the human form?)
Robert
 
rwm said:
I didn't know CWD was so prevalent? That sounds like a big problem? Are you not afraid to eat the meat and get CJD (the human form?)
Robert
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we also have CWD in PA, lots of stuff to do if in area, kinda locally contained......
 
rwm said:
I didn't know CWD was so prevalent? That sounds like a big problem? Are you not afraid to eat the meat and get CJD (the human form?)
Robert
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I have 2 doe in my freezer that are headed to the trash this week. CWD positive. Both looked perfectly normal.

I’m in a CWD hot zone. Our rifle season runs until the end of December. It’s tough to find the motivation to go hunt diseased deer.


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