There's no dignity in death

martinbns

martinbns

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These are the deer my son and I shot last weekend near Lac La Biche. My son shot his a smaller 8 point at about 9:00 AM Friday and I got mine at about the same time on Saturday. When Brendan shot his it wasaround -20 C and when i got mine it was around -15c . We had one of Brendan's buddies with us looking for a doe, (he had never hunted deer before), by the time I went out to the Truck early Sunday morning, they were all frozen solid. I am now trying to thaw them a bit so we can skin and butcher them.

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And I thought it was bichin' cold sitting in my blind here @ -2C.

Congrats! You folks are well worthy of those rewards!
 
They look like Archery targets are so rigid!
You guy's are sure brave going out in that cold, -20C is about my limit and I cannot sit still for five minutes or I'll freeze solid!

Congrats on the Deer!

Noel
 
Frozen Deer

Hey Martin, don't worry about the frozen deer. I shot a smallish WT Buck last year on the last day of the season (Nov 25th). It was -18c that day, by the time I got him the 1/2 mile to the truck his legs were pretty frozen. When I got home it was near dark so I hung him in the shed (not heated) thinking that if I left the hide on he might not freeze up over night. oops. By 8:00 am he was frozen solid, I don't mean hard, he was a rock!:runaway:

Well, I figured as long as he's frozen he can't go bad. In a couple of days it'll get warm (i'm in Southern Alberta afterall) and he'll thaw out out. Probably be chewy as hell since he froze quick and the fact he was in full rut and hot on a doe when I popped him. Boy was I wrong. It finally warmed up for enough consecutive days to thaw his hide enough to skin on December 19th!:eek:

After I got his hide off I managed to get his shoulders off and cut, but the rest of him was still solid. It took two more days of hanging in the cold room to thaw enough so I could finish the butchering. "What about the meat?" you may ask, well that is a sad story.

I assumed that the meat from this rutting, running, frozen solid deer would be marginal as dinner fare, so most of it went into the stew meat and sausage supply. I only cut steaks from what are usually the most tender of muscles, figuring I could chew through them myself, or give them to the starving, malnourished students I go to college with:D

With butchering duties finished, I figured I would try out a steak for late lunch. It was THE BEST STEAK I HAVE EVER EATEN!!!!! 10x better then any elk, moose, buffalo, veal, or other deer I have had. Tender? No knife needed! Flavour? Devine! (yes, I said "divine"; if you ate it you would use the word too) I quickly tried to figure out how to glue all those little stew meat pieces back into steak-like-blobs that I might possibly get to not fall through the grill on my BBQ, no luck:mad:

I shot a nice WT buck on Friday. He's in my garage, I'm waiting for it to get cold; -20 for a couple of weeks would be nice;)

Cheers,

Ian
 
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