DJ 17

Why sell those?

The corned venison /goose recipe I use also has smashed cloves of garlic, bay leaves and canning salt along with pickling spice and tender quick. Works great.

Kevin, How long do you smoke it for?

Got Lake Erie Walleye written all over it.

X2 On the green one with the black ladder back!

The only place I like Blue Jays is in the deer woods. They are like a deer early warning system! If its quiet and they start going nuts, you better pay attention because there is a deer close by somewhere. Red Squirrels on the other hand....... suck. When I was about 7 yrs old following my grandfather through the mountains of Vermont he stopped one day and asked me if I had ever "barked" a red squirrel? Of course I had no idea what he was talking about. This irritating squirrel shows up next to us and starts their usual BS, so my grandfather takes aim and inch inside the tree from the squirrel with his .270 and BANG! Squirrel falls the 2 feet to the ground. I go over to look at it and it is full of splinters! He "barked" the squirrel. After an hour of sitting there and seeing nothing, another irritating little squirrel shows up. He asked if I wanted to try and "Bark the squirrel"? "Absolutely!" He gives me the rifle which is a pre-64 Winchetser Model 70, heavy as hell but an awesome rifle. I draw down on the squirrel and fire and I don't see any squirrel??? I turn around and look at him and he is just about falling over he is laughing so hard . He tells me I missed the tree and absolutely vaporized the squirrel! We got back to camp and he told that story a dozen times, each time laughing just as hard as the first time. I have that rifle now and have refinished the stock to its original beauty. Since our unit went to rifle a few years ago I have carried and shot a few bucks and does with it. My grandfather carried it, my dad carried it and I have carried it. To say it is my most prized rifle would obviously be a huge understatement. When My son is old enough it will become his just as it became mine. Damn, I miss my Grandfather even after all these years.

Focus Jakey Focus, you are starting to drift away from your objective!

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How do you guys store your long line rigs to avoid tangles? I am thinking of rigging up a couple for late season on the FLX.

I've said it before on a different thread. If the deer walks in and your heart rate skyrockets and your excited then that's the buck you should shoot. Don't let the hunting shows ruin your time in the outdoors anymore than they already have. No matter how big or small a buck you shoot there will always be naysayers. If it makes you happy and excited to harvest it let it fly!

John, Is that the DWB fly in the pic? That's an interesting set of beads in it. Why did you choose those colors? I too have had outstanding luck with the DWB Minion fly with white glow beads behind a standard green 2x crush glow SD

That's too bad. That's a cool bear.

Southeastern new York is a nightmare for ticks. Come in from the woods especially goldenrod type cover and it looks like your clothes are literally crawling. I bought a Yellow lab when we lived there primarily so we could see the ticks on him. He was out in the yard one day, and never left the grass for 20 minutes or so, when he came in I picked 35+ ticks off him. I had Lyme and it sucks big time!

Chaos, As you said there are many possibilities, but I do know that it did not run into anything before it reached the deer, it was a completely clear line of flight. Like I mentioned above, I'm really wondering if the tip did bend on impact? If so, then I would assume it would have to have contacted some bone even though there was no audible sound. That would obviously deter penetration immediately.

Steelie what head is that? That's an impressive hole.