Just now...

[Captain]

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[BaseballCoach (Rev A)]

Nice

[Chicken Dinner]

Nice mass on that rack!

[Big Skyz]

That's one for the wall. You are gonna have to clear a space for it. Dang that is a nice buck!

[HideHunter]

What CD said.. Congrats!

[Arty]

Thems some thick horns!

[Sunshine]

:( poor deer

[Bwana]

Unique looking critter, more pictures needed.

[Captain]

No I'm not going to mount him. Got a house full now. My taxidermist want the cape and will mount the "horns" on a plaque for me in trade. Been doing that for years.
Just got done getting him out (deep gulley) and dealing with him. I'm about whooped. Between them Stripers jerking me around yesterday and killing deers today I'm taking tomorrow off!!!! :D
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[Big Muddy]

YOU DA MAN, BRO. !!!!!!!!!!

[quercus alba]

what happened to that bum shoulder?

[Fido]

Crossbow or shootin iron????????

[Thumper]

Neither Fido. Look at that second set of pics. It's obvious, no hole, no blood ... all he has to do is ugly 'em to death! ;)

[Thumper]

Goin' by the time stamp, it looks like 10 mins. before the official time of sunset. Must'a got him early, like right after he arrived at his stand for the night's hunt. :D

[Captain]

Bite me Thumper...
That's a crossbow kill.
About 6:30 yesterday afternoon a really nice 10 point came in with two does. The 10 was a basket rack very nice and even, but small. I'm hoping the game camera made a picture of him. I was trying to pick out which doe I was going to shoot when this guy shows up way back. Gave him some time and he finally came in where the 10 and does were. He finally got right for a bow shot.
Actually gun season is in at the SC farm but I usually bow hunt till about Mid-October before I break out the cannon..

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[Buckrub]

Hmmmm. Not sure why I hadn't thought of this.

You wanna pay me for the cast iron pile I've accumulated for you??? Here's my offer:

I bring it to you in my very limited window of opportunity this fall.............and we go out to the farm and you shoot me a deer and cape it out.......two would be better!!!.....and I bring the cape(s) back to FIX the two I have on the wall where the hair is falling out and have my taxidermist fix them.

OR, if it would not be more expensive........I bring the two that the hair is falling out, we do the above, and YOUR taxidermist fixes them.

AND, I leave the cast iron and come home.

[BarryBobPosthole]

Looks to be a big bodied deer. What'd he weigh in at?

And Jim, if he'd have uglied it to death the meat would be too tore up to even mess with. That'd be some serious trauma right there.

BKB

[Big Muddy]

Cap, did you happen to have that buck you killed on your game camera???
Nice big thick antlers....good to have those genetics in your herd.

[Captain]

Bucky it would make more sense to break your mount apart and unscrew the horn plate and remount. The taxidermist cannot reuse the form anyway because the old hide is glued to it. If it ain't you should not use that taxidermist again. On a remount the only thing you can reuse is the "horns" and eyes. And I personally would not reuse the eyes. If it's been mounted any length of time the glass eyes they have now are much better.
My guy would be about $550 on the mount. (Ballpark)
I give him 5 or 6 capes a year.

Posty that booger weighed in at the processors at 193. Which to the northern boys might not sound great but in this country anytime you are dancing around 200 lbs you got something.
Oh and Bite me!
Eddie I've got a bunch of game cam pictures of him and the 10 but they are in velvet. It looks like he had just shed a couple of days ago.

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[Bwana]

So Cappy, is the 193 field-dressed or with the innards still in?

[Captain]

So Cappy, is the 193 field-dressed or with the innards still in?
Live weight. I know that's not much to you western boys. But that a nice size Bambi out here. Sent from my iPhone using Forum Runner

[BarryBobPosthole]

That's a big deer in anybody's book Captain! He's obviously been on the Larke Plyler High Protein Stock Finishing Diet you've got them all on with those 18 feeders. Hell, he's probably ate $100 worth of your corn.

That'll make for some good victuals right there buddy.

BKB

[Captain]

I took today off to catch up on the farm some. This morning bought 6, 55 gallon barrels of corn and just finished bagging them up in feed sacks to resupply my stash of corn. That's 2,250 pounds of corn. That's about what I go through a month on the farm and hunt club together. I normally keep 16, 55 gallon barrels full here for my supply.
These hogs and Deers are gonna break me. :-)

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[BarryBobPosthole]

Just wondering but have you ever thought of creating any of those mineral licks like some folks do with salt or that deer cocaine stuff? I know where there are a few natural deer licks back home and man they get in there and root up the ground like nobody's business. Supposed to be good for antler growth isn't it?

BKB

[Thumper]

Did you ever consider Kroger? Beef is high ... but it would be a LOT cheaper ... and a LOT less work! ;)

[BarryBobPosthole]

Jeepers, groceries are getting so high these days subsistence hunting, fishing, and farming is starting to look like a reality for some people. Its seriously getting stupid high. and nobody is saying a word about it. Strange if you ask me. I've always thought that the proce of food is seriously rigged. There's no correlation between supply and demand to speak of. There's some of it has to do with the drought we've been having in our part of the country I guess, but honestly I gotta think something ain't right. If it's rigged, then rig it so it ain't so damned expensive will ya?

BKB

[Captain]

I normally buy the trace mineral salt block and set them out. And yes when they melt from rain if the soil is that red clay they will dig one heck of a hole in the ground. Works best in the summer but does not hurt to put it out anytime.

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[Captain]

what happened to that bum shoulder?

Sorry I missed this? What bum shoulder mine or HIS. :-)

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[quercus alba]

wasn't too long ago you were gonna have to give up computer sex and bow hunting because you were crippled in one of your wings. Apparently, you've recovered, musta took postholes advice and rubbed a little dirt on it

[Captain]

I had one shoulder rotor cuff surgery in 97 and I think you are talking about last year. I had surgery on the other one and rehab in February and March of this year.
I'm all good to go! :-)

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[Buckrub]

Well, I failed in my poor attempt to talk myself into a farm hunt........... sigh.

[Big Muddy]

Cap, how do you fill all those sacks with corn, from those 55 gal. barrels???

[Captain]

Cap, how do you fill all those sacks with corn, from those 55 gal. barrels???

One bucket at a time.....

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[Big Muddy]

Bro, I got a great time-saver idea for you, in filling all those sacks by-hand !!!!!....I been doing it for years....gotta go for now, but I'll tell you about it, later.

[Big Muddy]

Cap, I wore out my back, filling those sacks with a bucket....I bought a small wore-out gravity-flow-type grain wagon for a few bucks at a farm equip. auction....it holds about 100 bushels, and I keep my corn in it, instead of all those barrels....less cost, too, buying in bulk....I just keep it parked under a shed, out of the weather.

It has a small door on one side, with a lip attached, which allows the grain to flow out slowly in a small stream....I just set the sack on the ground, under the stream of grain, hold it there until it's full, close the door, tie off the sack, and move on to the next sack.

I stack the filled sacks in my front end bucket, and just drive the tractor around to my feeders....sometimes, if I feel lazy, I just run the front bucket under the trailer door, and let the stream of grain flow directly into the front end bucket....then, I just drive to the feeders, and use a scoop shovel to fill them, directly from the front bucket.

This one is almost like mine, except mine is an M&W....also, the lip on mine is not as wide, which is actually better for fitting inside the sack opening, for filling....this one is $450 on ebay, which is about what I paid for mine.


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[Captain]

I've looked at those Eddie and we actually had one at one time that had a auger (no sliding door) and that was really not workable. My problem with it was our shed and barn are open on both ends and squirrels stayed in it and corn tends to draw moisture in that situation.
I really don't mind bagging up the corn and because I use it in NC and SC I really need it where I can travel with it. If I ever close off the barn or shed I would consider another one. Thanks, Captain

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[Big Muddy]

Agreed, about the auger-type....pain in the azz....agreed, about the squirrels....however, Sandy loves chasing them around the trailer. ;)

[BarryBobPosthole]

At the rate Captain is going he's going to need a silo.

BKB

[Bwana]

BBP, silos are for silage, not corn.

[BarryBobPosthole]

Well, whattaya call one for corn, a cornage?

BKB

[Bwana]

A grain bin.

If still on the cob, then it's a corn crib.

[BarryBobPosthole]

How original. There used to be a couple of 'silos', which were tall cylindrical brick things, over in Arkansas by a little town called Ozark. They were painted like Budweiser cans and later on when I was an adult I found out it was because the farmer raised corn and sold it to A. Busch. I thought those were corn silos.

But to also be technically correct, there can be missles in silos too.

BKB

[Thumper]

Ha! I've seen a ton of silos with corn in 'em. Ya' just gots ta' stay ahead of mold and stuff.

I'm a city-slicker ... we store our corn in cans! ;)

[Chicken Dinner]

I must be a mountain man as I store my corn in a jar...

[Thumper]

Them's squeezin's! ;)

[BarryBobPosthole]

Speaking of.....its looking like its gonna rain all weekend here. I need to make it by to get me a jug between now and 5:00 tomorrow.

BKB

[Niner]

A: Doggoned nice deer Cap'n!!!!

2: I HOPE you are using a respirator or at LEAST a dust mask when you are working with that corn. Lots of dust there ya know.

[Captain]

A: Doggoned nice deer Cap'n!!!! 2: I HOPE you are using a respirator or at LEAST a dust mask when you are working with that corn. Lots of dust there ya know.

I did not and have never, like a fool..... That is Part of what is wrong with my lungs now.

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[BarryBobPosthole]

Niner so obviously has an issue of keeping on topic.

BKB

[Buckrub]

Who?

What silo? Is that like milo?

I love corn on the cob. With real butter.

I can't afford all the corn that I need to shoot deer that I can't see.

No weekend rain here........