Filled my tag on the opening day (November 7th) 40 minutes upon arrival at my blind, shot this 5 points buck at 40 feet with my newly purchased Browning A bolt slug gun got from EE here from an awesome CGNer ( 7magman ) always been a rifle guy for big game so the slug gun is totally new to me but this gun is amazing its just a rifle shooting slugs.
Someone refer me to this place 10 minutes from home (Alex's Quality Meat Market) so I called the place yesterday before I left the camp and knowing it will takes me few hours before get there but the people are very nice and willing to hang around for a bit after hours to help me unload the deer from my truck.
Upon arrival the owner Mike is very helpful and offered to help unload the deer from the back of my suv and and after hang the deer in their cooler (been hang at the camp since Monday morning) and realized mine deer is the third deer inline waiting to be butchered and they have already processing one so I knew I found the right person to do the job.
After little chat chat with both Mike and his father Alex and found they are both hunters and been hunting all their lives for many decades and I was hooked and these guys are so friendly that we spent over 30 mins just to talk about hunting.
Anyway here's some pics of my deer trip 2016 (LOL).
This is my blind (I know its just a ground blind but I just didn't have time to set up a tree stand for this year because it was kind of like a last minute thing and I wasn't sure if I want to hunt this WMU or not that's why)
This is after the shot he ran about 20 yards and stumbled
This is the slug gun I used topped with a Redfield 3-9x40 it has generous eye relief and really happy for a budget scope
Remington 385 gr accutip does it job perfect mushroom perfectly broke right front shoulder smashed both lungs but stopped just under the hide and the right side.
This is how I drove home with the deer in the back seat (actually trunk after the folded down the rear seats) it was skinned the night before I leave the camp (Tuesday night)
This is the cooler where they hang my deer it was sawed in the middle before Mike can unload from the trunk because he doesn't want to mess up my wife's suv, note there is another deer waiting to be butchered and I was told it just came in this week as well.
This is the other deer I was talking about and they were processing it when I got there.
Now back to the exciting part: Got a phone call from Mike this afternoon said my deer is ready to be pick up and this is what its look like when I open the boxes when I am home.
The reason I turn quite a bit into hamburger is my son loves hamburgers especially when Mike added some pork and spices they smell awesome and I really want to try it out today but my wife has a better idea and here's what we have for dinner instead:
I can tell you the way they butcher it they left a tiny bit of the fat around the edges of the chop and it just so juicy and taste so good that it literally melts in your mouth.
A big kudo to Mike and Alex I highly recommend them to anyone in the GTA if you want your game to be butchered properly especially Alex been doing this for over 35 years and being a hunter himself he knows how to properly process any game!
Someone refer me to this place 10 minutes from home (Alex's Quality Meat Market) so I called the place yesterday before I left the camp and knowing it will takes me few hours before get there but the people are very nice and willing to hang around for a bit after hours to help me unload the deer from my truck.
Upon arrival the owner Mike is very helpful and offered to help unload the deer from the back of my suv and and after hang the deer in their cooler (been hang at the camp since Monday morning) and realized mine deer is the third deer inline waiting to be butchered and they have already processing one so I knew I found the right person to do the job.
After little chat chat with both Mike and his father Alex and found they are both hunters and been hunting all their lives for many decades and I was hooked and these guys are so friendly that we spent over 30 mins just to talk about hunting.
Anyway here's some pics of my deer trip 2016 (LOL).
This is my blind (I know its just a ground blind but I just didn't have time to set up a tree stand for this year because it was kind of like a last minute thing and I wasn't sure if I want to hunt this WMU or not that's why)
This is after the shot he ran about 20 yards and stumbled
This is the slug gun I used topped with a Redfield 3-9x40 it has generous eye relief and really happy for a budget scope
Remington 385 gr accutip does it job perfect mushroom perfectly broke right front shoulder smashed both lungs but stopped just under the hide and the right side.
This is how I drove home with the deer in the back seat (actually trunk after the folded down the rear seats) it was skinned the night before I leave the camp (Tuesday night)
This is the cooler where they hang my deer it was sawed in the middle before Mike can unload from the trunk because he doesn't want to mess up my wife's suv, note there is another deer waiting to be butchered and I was told it just came in this week as well.
This is the other deer I was talking about and they were processing it when I got there.
Now back to the exciting part: Got a phone call from Mike this afternoon said my deer is ready to be pick up and this is what its look like when I open the boxes when I am home.
The reason I turn quite a bit into hamburger is my son loves hamburgers especially when Mike added some pork and spices they smell awesome and I really want to try it out today but my wife has a better idea and here's what we have for dinner instead:
I can tell you the way they butcher it they left a tiny bit of the fat around the edges of the chop and it just so juicy and taste so good that it literally melts in your mouth.
A big kudo to Mike and Alex I highly recommend them to anyone in the GTA if you want your game to be butchered properly especially Alex been doing this for over 35 years and being a hunter himself he knows how to properly process any game!
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