On Halloween, Eric’s birthday, we took off work and headed up to a Block Management Area where we had a reservation. Block Management is hunting access to private land orchestrated by the State. It’s a wonderful program. Anyhow, we had almost two sections of land, with a big butte in the middle all to ourselves. [...]
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This year’s deer
Posted in Hunting, Pregnancy on November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ahhh, Montana
Posted in Adventures, Dogs, Hunting on November 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »
My husband related this story to me over dinner tonight. He’s headed out to Eastern Montana for a week of bird hunting, just him and our German Shorthaired Pointer, Stanley. He called to set up a reservation for a room in the big city of Circle, MT.
EZ: Hi, I was calling to see if you [...]
Butcher’s Introspection
Posted in Food Preservation, Hunting on November 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Last, we butchered up the rear legs and backstraps from my deer. I rather enjoy butchering… once the quartering is done, anyhow. Quartering, taking the deer from hanging as a whole to the primal cuts, is unpleasant to me for some reason. I can quite put my finger on it. It’s not really a gross [...]
Pulling the Trigger
Posted in Adventures, Hunting on November 4, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I finally did it. I finally got my first deer.
***Please be warned. The story to follow is at times graphic and may not be your particular cup of tea. I mean, it’s kind of obvious given my opening, but the following is going to discuss, in detail, the hunting, shooting and processing of a deer. [...]
