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my little brown.. pb brown for me

next we're going to be seeing big black spawned out salmon sitting in tanks at the fish counter

red meat needs time to age, and when done in correct conditions and temperature, it can age for weeks without spoiling. Unlike fish, which starts to smells if left in a fridge for more then a couple days. Other then letter the blood drain and let the meat chemically break down enzymes, im out of answers. mike

great pics. I was wondering what main body you are using when you hit the bush, and what lenses you take with you?

Hanging the deer for longer then 3-4 days is usually a good idea due to the chemical breakdown in the meat, the longer it is left to hang, the longer the meat has to breakdown and tenderize itself.. Im butchering my deer this weekend, and ate the tender loins last night after hanging for a week and they were perfect.

great looking buck. you can tell its muzzleloading season when hunters can get away with lightin up a smoke!! I tried that bowhunting once and was winded pretty fast. I ate the tenderloins of the buck hanging in my garage last night and they were oh so tastey. Its good to hear you and your dad dropped bucks on the same night, my old man doesnt even hunt, so i dont get that oppertunity. cheers mike

great looking buck. Its nice to see that they are still moving WI, i heard the movement really slowed down in the last two weeks down there.

Bow is still open in most wmu even during the shotgun/black powder hunt. Archery Only is closed, but you can bow hunt durong the shotgun and muzzle loader as long as your wearing your blaze orange. Most people read the regs and see that archery in their wmu is closed to archery only, which is it, because its not just archery only, its archery shotgun and muzzle. archery only resumes sunday

Ling are defintally edible, especially from places like erie and lake temagami. The main body meat on a ling is very tough and kind of chewy when cooked, but most of the aboriginals have told me to fillet the tail piece from the anal fin down and cook it like any other fish. If you insist on eating the entire body of the ling, cut the rest of the meat into small chunks and make some kind of ling stew out of it. Every year they have a weekend in temagami called the Ling Fling where all the ling are collected from the weekends catch and a mass stew is made on the ice for a Ling Fling cookout Mike

how much ice is on burr right now?

thanks fella's to all your responses. We did never find the deer, and it is part of hunting. Maple_leaf_drift helped me look for the deer for hours and hours and hours across many kilometers and eventually we had to give up search. I feel like poop for hitting a deer that i was unable to recover, but im not the first to lose a game animal, and im certainly not going to be the last. I still do have a beauty 8 point hanging in my garage that piled up within 100 yards, so at least thats a little proof i can bring down an animal cleanly. poop happens. Mike

the edge of the river marks the edge of my hunting property. The deer crossed into private property and also into the town limits so I gave up tracking for the moment. Also i was in a snowmobile accident last weekend and my knees are cracked, making walking in the deep snow hard. Im faced with a difficult decision

I watched that arrow hit him in the left lung quarting away, and he did duck the arrow so it hit him a bit forward and high, 100% a lung shot but it could have just clipped it and obviously didn't take him down, but the blood we were trailing was frothy lung blood and lots of arterial spray and some thick jelly blood in spots he layed down. and thanks for the review dan, its much appreciated Mike

On Wed Nov.26 I made a post of the buck i downed at 6 steps using the Rage 3 Broadhead and the devistating entrance wound and blood trail that resulted from the 2" cut diameter. Last night, I was back in my stand trying to fill another tag when a beautiful 8 point came running in to my rattles and I stopped him at 26 yards and slipped an arrow behind his left shoulder. When I went to get my arrow it had some solid blood on it, but it appeared that only two of the three blades opened, now the third blade may have closed when the buck kicked and tossed the arrow into the snow, but i defintally know i hit him hard. An hour later we went to track him and found some nice solid blood for 500 yards where he layed down a couple times, but snowmobilers in the area kept pushing him from his bed. After an hour of tracking it was time for my buddy to go to work, so we decided to resume tracking at at midnight. When we returned later that night we noticed coyotes had been all over the blood trail and actually bumped the buck over and over again. We tracked for miles as we watched the tracks of the buck fleeing from the coyotes untill the buck eventually met back up with his heard and gained safety in numbers so the coyotes had backed off. Just befor 3am I was stil on his blood trail hard when i eventually bumped him from a bloody bed in the apple orchard, so we backed off and decided to resume tracking this morning. Apparently this deer is still running around out there with one lung because we tracked him for 3 hours this morning and lost him where he crossed a river to another property. So it turns out that at 26 yards the rage 3 did half the job it did at 6 yards. What happened to down range kenetic energy? At that distance the 2" cut diameter was to much surface area to punch through his ribs hard enough to keep going through his body, ending up with a lost deer. There was enough blood out there to expect that this deer would be down by now. How long can a deer live on one lung and still bleeding? Tonight im going to give my G5 Montec another go and see what kind of punching power they have compared to rage.

I'm still looking for anyone one there who has used rage roadheads and have had them work less then perfect in action.

wicked pictures man, what camera and filters are you using??

all those fixed blade broadheads fly different then field tips, unlike the rage, which flies exactly like a field point even in high winds. Last year i shot the G5 montec and even tho it flew nice, it still gave the arrow a less then perfect flight. Slick tricks look alot like muzzy's, and from what i know about muzzy 3 and 4 blade, they fly like poop in any wind, and has more surface area to catch a twig or leaf. Rage 3's fly tight and compact, no wind drift and i can splip my arrow through the smallest openings in the thickets brush

Last night I finally got a chance to put the rage 3 to the test and let me tell you, it lived up to its name. Earlier today i made a post of the deer i tagged last night and i wanted to show you the entrance wound this broadhead created. Mind you I did shoot this buck at 6 steps from my tree stand 15 feet off the ground, but it had no problem punching through the rib cage and putting a perfect star in his heart and lungs and stopped just inside the skin on the exit side. All three blades deployed perfect, while some people say two or only one deployed for them. Ive spent endless hours in my stand watching ice build up on the tip of my broadhead and wondering if it was going to open on impact, and it opened, ice and all. He didn't run more then 100 yards and the blood trail was rediculous. Im shooting a fred bear mossy oaks 32 special set at 68 pounds, Beaman ICS camo hunter 400 grain arrow fletched with 4" quickspins, and tipped with the rage 3. My bow is definitally not the fastest on the market and my arrows dont have the most penetration power out there, but the rage cut a perfect whole and punched hard. I recommened Rage 3 for anyone hunting with a compound bow. Im going to continue to hunt with them and my buddy is waiting to put them to the test.

Well fella's, I havnt been getting any fishing in, but for good reason, archery season is among us, and I've got antler illness. Last night, moments befor dark, after numerous does and button bucks passed by, a six point and 8 point made their way down wind of my stand and locked up 30 yards away staring in my direction. I thought they busted me but i kept bleating and grunting at them anyways to see if i could get a better look, when out of the corner of my eye I saw a brute of a buck walking towards me at 10 yards right to my calls. In the low light i could barely see my pins and my eyes were watering from the NW 30kmh head wind, but i managed to get a pin on him and stopped him at 6 yards quartering away and took out the lungs and heart with a rage 3 broadhead. Only after he was hit did i notice i had just shot a one antlered deer but in the low light i wasnt sure of anything. After a short tracking job we found him piled up within 100 yards. His right beam is broken off 4 inches above the base from rutting hard and his brow tine on his left antler is broken off to, he has scars all over his body from years of fighting, after all i found 52 sheds from this property this season. His most recent battle wound was a antler puncture under his right eye that almost blinded him, a perfect management buck to take off my hunting land. I still have one tag left and a hit list full of mature bucks. Special thanks to Braden Burmister for helpting field dress and drag my deer out. cheers buddy. Here are some pictures of my first archery kill