Thanks for the kind words all but just following up as promised in my original post, not because it was a buck to get excited about. Decent body (though you can't tell from the crappy picture) but eh in the antler department for our area. As for winds, that day was BRUTAL with a peak gust that day of 51 mph while we were hunting. The winds were out of the west/northwest that day and we walked almost exactly 3 miles straight into it before I shot my buck. That wind made that walk plain old nasty.

Posthole, as far as a recipe I don't have one. I simply do as stated on the other post and that being cube it, season it, boil until cooked, stuff it in a jar, cover with the liquid left after cooking, and then seal the jars. What we really need is the recipe Big Sky's wife uses in order to do it right.