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| Huckelberrywine |
Posted - Aug 29 2007 : 08:19:01 AM
Fall is looming, and how many of you hunt? What do you hunt and when? I'm hoping to complete a hunter safety class my DH will be teaching. I laughed and told him I was nervous about sitting in a class with a bunch of young boys with guns, and I guess I'm not alone. There are about 4 other local gals my age who have expressed the same sentiment, so he's putting together a class just for us. :) I'd love to bring home a deer this fall, a turkey and pheasant when the seasons come around. Quail are tasty, I but just can't get over that "cute" thing on them.
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| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Nov 10 2008 : 05:32:04 AM
Michelle, you won't regret it. Elk will not only replace venison, it'll replace beef for a year, too. And you won't want to go back to beef once you've had elk!
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| Huckelberrywine |
Posted - Nov 08 2008 : 6:09:46 PM
Oooh. Sounds so good. DH has suggested we go elk hunting in the next few years. I'd better take him up on it. We don't eat a lot of meat, but we could try elk for a year instead of deer. I did try some ostrich once, not my favorite, but Tina Michelle, I bet you'd spice it up just right and make it really special. :) So neat to hear all these ideas.
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Nov 05 2008 : 2:47:00 PM
we just bought some elk from blackwing.com
I used it in making a mexican casserole.
was yummy.
I have a few pkgs of that, some venison, and some ostrich to try from there.
So far the elk was yummy.
I don't know how the ostrich will be..but I'm going to try making some ostrich burgers with feta cheese and spices.
anyhow..we buy almost all of our meats from blackwing. they have yummy bison meat, and the organic chicken is very good.
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wanted to say thanks for making me feel welcome about my target shooting. I hope to practice again soon.
hope you all have a great weekend.
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Nov 05 2008 : 06:46:08 AM
Elk is my very favorite. I always get a box of elk when my uncle visits us from Colorado in January and I sure look forward to it. Last year I was lucky enough to get elk from a friend, when I helped her butcher her 12 year old son's first elk too. I am all out right now...just one little maybe 2 lb. roast left from all the elk. Just enough for a nice stew. sigh.
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| Suzan |
Posted - Nov 05 2008 : 05:55:04 AM
Elk is wonderful! We use whatever husband kills, squirrels, pheasants, grouse, venison, elk, antelope, (even bear years ago) but the elk has been the best so far! I even cooked a beaver for him once... |
| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Nov 05 2008 : 05:35:58 AM
Michelle, elk is an extremely lean, fine grained meat. In fact, it's so lean, that beef or pork fat has to be added to ground elk in order to get it to hold together for burgers. In my opinion, elk tastes better than beef and when we get one it replaces beef for a year. DD doesn't care much for beef but she loves elk. Now that she's off to college, I think an elk would last us almost 2 years, now.
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| Huckelberrywine |
Posted - Nov 04 2008 : 8:20:29 PM
Congratulations Tina! Maybe you're just more relaxed. Don't know, but good for you anyway! (ditto on butting in anytime, isn't that what this is all about?) Hope you get your elk, Lisa. I don't think I've ever had elk. I do know taste varies so much by region. Deer who eat sage compared to all these Palouse grain fed deer...you wouldn't think they were the same critter. So neat to keep track on your blog, I'll have to go check that out.
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| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Nov 04 2008 : 3:07:45 PM
This is great reading all your posts. DH and I don't go out for the deer hunt. We're not big fans of venison. But elk is another story! We are currently on the 4th day of the general bull hunt. No luck yet but, there are 5 more days. The weather isn't exactly cooperating this year. I am actually chronicling this year's hunt on my blog. We always have such fun and interesting adventures out in the forest.
Oh, and here's to Tina! The next Annie Oakley! Keep up the practice and you'll REALLY surprise everybody.
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| eskimobirdlady |
Posted - Nov 03 2008 : 12:51:10 AM
tina that is awesome! keep practicing and you will be a dead shot every time! and by the way butt in any time! its not a private conversation and we love the input of everyone!
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Nov 02 2008 : 9:18:53 PM
hey gals..so sorry to have butted into the conversation here...I was just excited that I could hit a target nearly dead on after never having luck with such as a teen when my dad tried to teach me..anyhow..I am sorry to have butted into your lovely conversation.
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| Huckelberrywine |
Posted - Oct 20 2008 : 8:39:30 PM
OH, wild pigs. Sounds interesting. Only wild pigs we have around here are normal pigs gone wild (boy do they look scary though, really!) on a game hunting ranch. Political issue I'll stay clear of. Are your Texas wild pigs javalinas like in Arizona? Boy, those will put you on guard in a hurry.
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Oct 20 2008 : 8:07:17 PM
after about 23 yrs of not holding a gun..hubby took out his pellet rifle..yeah one of those air pump guns that can actually pack a good punch..anyhow..I did some target shooting and funny thing is may dad used to joke that I couldn't hit the broad side of the barn..ha..but I think he'd have been proud of me yesterday when I got some pretty good consistent 9 shots..right next to the bulls eye on the target..ha.
not dead ons..but pretty darn close..but..the target wasn't moving either..but anyhow... it's good to know that "if" I had to shoot something I could.:0)
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Oct 20 2008 : 7:13:14 PM
Oh have fun!! I used to go with my dad and Uncle (wild pig hunting I mean) in Calif years ago.
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| chickabella |
Posted - Oct 20 2008 : 04:16:03 AM
I've been invited to go wild pig hunting on a friend's property... just gotta purchase a rifle (and a freezer to put the meat in!). It's been years since I've been rifle shooting, so am thinking a refresher course is in order.
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Oct 19 2008 : 9:57:35 PM
Congratulations Michelle!! It was opening deer season this past weekend here. Husband isn't a hunter, but I always have a friend bring some meat over if the hunting is good. (I tend to help with butchering for people) So I am hoping good luck for friends and family..haha.
Our weather is the same..we got alot done out back this past weekend to prepare for winter..it will be here in no time...this week will likely be our last true nice fall weather before winter too!
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| Huckelberrywine |
Posted - Oct 18 2008 : 11:03:52 PM
Fall. So pretty and so busy! I'm so glad to read the different ways you're taking time to enjoy. Love the story about eating the berries! What a happy picture.
Well, opening day DH and I both got our deer. We were walking back to the truck after I got mine so we could drive in and pick it up, and I offered DH the lucky gun I was using but done with. "Nah". "But what if there's one standing right by the truck, wouldn't you rather use this one?" Well, you know what happened, don't you? I kid you not, the darn thing was headed straight for the truck like it was afraid of being left behind. Fast as could be, he had that gun, loaded it, and got his deer.
I think this is our last week of good fall weather as it usually gets bitter cold after Halloween. Hope to get out and pick some of the wild blackberries, apples, and rosehips just on. Kind of late this year. Don't mind, because it was a busy summer. Will be nice to slow down this winter. Short days up north (of course, not nearly as short as Alaska) force you to take a break from quite so much outdoors time. Good book and soup time.
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| eskimobirdlady |
Posted - Sep 17 2008 : 3:27:40 PM
hmmm are there any other berries that look like them? i have lots of berries that look like that here but afraid of getting something poisonous!
i too love the mushrooms and am constantly taking pics of them lol. fall is such a beautiful time, i wish it lasted a bit longer. there enver seems to be enough timme to really enjoy it when there is so much to do like hunting caribou, moose and grouse, packaging meat, picking high bush and low bush cranberries, picking rosehips, making jams, putting up the last minute firewood that we didnt get in during the summer cuz we were too busy enjoying that short season lol etc etc etc).
we have t-shirts that say "PETA People for the Eating of Tasty Animals" *grin*
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| jo Thompson |
Posted - Sep 17 2008 : 09:43:41 AM
That's why we call it berry picking with shotguns (Peta approved shotguns). I remember one fall I looked over at my husband on another ridge and he was laying in the sunshine with his shotgun pointed up, lying in the bushes eating blueberries in the sun. We love the woods in the fall, I love all the little funky mushrooms.
Crowberries are wonderful, they look like blueberries (darker almost black) but grow on flat mats of piney looking vegetation. They sweeten after the frost and don't have any acid taste. I think the yupik call them blackberries, I can't remember the yupik name. They are amazing in a pie!
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| eskimobirdlady |
Posted - Sep 16 2008 : 10:39:45 PM
heather, one thing i learned very quickly is that hunting means so much more than shooting an animal i used to tease hubby that he was hunting other than 4 legged deer and i was right! he was hunting the peaceful feeling that comes when you are out in the woods. good luck and enjoy!!
peace connie in alaska |
| eskimobirdlady |
Posted - Sep 16 2008 : 10:29:02 PM
hi jo, i am not familiar with crowberries. do they grow here in the interior? hubby says after we get my car on the road and make sure its gonna keep goign we can make another trip towards anchorage. maybe we can mmet then? of course this depends on a 1971 saab being road worthy lol. it is supposed to get 35-40 mpg! fo course thats not gonna do anything to change the price of a room there! perhaps they will be back on winter rates by then. on our last trip it cost us twice what it has previously at the very same hotel! yikes! sweet dreams. peace connie in alaska |
| PlumCreekMama |
Posted - Sep 16 2008 : 10:27:07 PM
I am taking hunter's safety this fall and plan to go deer hunting this winter! I am so excited, I've never been hunting before!
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| jo Thompson |
Posted - Sep 16 2008 : 9:19:04 PM
Connie, you make me laugh! I want to come up and hug you. Gosh the chill is in the air, everyone's mad at each other here. I've never felt like this in alaska. I've been watching the moose move up the mountain and they don't know anything is going on, Paul says I should take a walk with them! We picked berries on the game trail and the dogs went crazy there was so much scent there. Soon we'll be looking up at those stars Connie. Like sprinkles on our ice cream........ I picked a bunch of high bush cranberries when we were up on the Chatanika, they're frozen, not sure what I'm going to do with them....... I'll go pick some low bush this weekend, those are my favorites. We pick the crowberries for friends out in Dillingham, we traded salmon with them, we share all our good stuff.
I'm sorry about your aches and pains. Those are tough ones to put up with. You're right, we should have had our shotguns, they were nice plump grouse, full of berries. night to you...... jo
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| eskimobirdlady |
Posted - Sep 16 2008 : 8:25:41 PM
yikes that would be scary!! last winter we had to go to anchorage for a dr (for me) and it was snowy, windy and dark. hubby is a very careful driver and just got a feelign that soemthign wasnt right. he hit the brakes as much as he could and stopped in the middle of a herd of caribou that were in the road!! i tell you we could count their whiskers! it about gave me a heart attack!
good luck on the rosehip jelly! i hope you like it as much as we do! remember that piking them after a frost makes the flavor much better! if it hasnt frosted there yet (which i highly doublt lol) then wait till later in the fall. peace connie in alaska |
| LindaEllen |
Posted - Sep 16 2008 : 7:56:39 PM
Thank you Connie for that link, I'm going to be picking rosehips this week and give it a try. I have a food mill to, boy is it nice. I don't mind if jelly is not clear, I want the flavor.
LOL on the hubbies. I tell mine "We got to be nice to each other , we are all we got" lol Gosh yes you train em after all those years why would you let go, lol.
Yes animals can cause many accidents , we had a family friend killed by a deer, she was riding in the passenger side and the deer came through the window.
Last fall sis and I were going home from town when I heard the sound of hoofs on my side of the open window, sis was driving, I almost leaped in her lap but could not because I was buckled in. A big buck was coming in the window. I could have touched his antlers, it happen so fast. Good for all, sis was going the right speed to pass and he just missed the backend of our truck. Sis was wondering why my head was almost on her shoulders , she was clueless at what was coming through the window, lol.
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| eskimobirdlady |
Posted - Sep 16 2008 : 7:35:23 PM
tc linda i tell hubby i have to keep him around to see what he turns out like! i got too much work into him to give up *grin*
here is a link for the recipe that i use http://www.recipezaar.com/196955 i use a food mill to process all my fruit. i strain the resulting juice very lightly using only 1 layer of cheese cloth. personally i think it gives more flavor. it doesnt make true "jelly" as it isnt clear juice. let me know if you try it.
i dont think i would like to go under a moose with anything. they can be reallly mean! there are more people killed and injured every year by moose than by bears! but it would have been cool to see lol. thank goodness the other dog was found unhurt! your friend must have been frantic about her dog! often times in the winter a cow moose will decide that she likes our yard or driveway and it kinda puts a crimp into getting firewood in or leaving with the vehicles! lol i am not afriad of them but have a very healthy respect for anything wild, especially when its that big!
peace connie in alaska
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