New York hunters

There not to bad to do. The stuff is fairly cheap. I just don't have the place to do them here. I'd like to do some rabbit fur to for some mittens but have to see if there any left out there,the coyote really knock there numbers down.
 
That would be nice. My dad used to raise rabbit's when he dairy farmed, I think for meat. He had several 100 think they were Flemish giants?. Don't know why he never raised them when we were kids guess he was sick of them.

One of my cousins in Wales and commercially hunts rabbit's, there more like rats over there. He will kill several hundred when he hunts them, he did show me how to gut them super fast without a knife.
 
I will probably breed them towards the end of January maybe mid Febuary so when they have the kits the weather will be better. What color do you want? i should be getting some black, brown and white & brown. They usually have five to seven little ones.
I like them quartered up and baked with Chicken Shake & Bake. I'll have half that night then take the other half to work for lunch.
I might take one out of the freezer Saturday and cook it up on Sunday.
 
I like eating them many ways to do it. My dad used to make a rabbit gumbo he learned in LA. When he was in the army. I think Brown or the white/ brown would look good. I had a paper showing how to sew them into mittens but lost it, I'll see if I can find it.

I don't know why rabbit farms never lasted. They grow fast and breed, well like rabbits lol.
As soon as muzzleloader is over I'll get out for some, hope I can find the but there should be squirrels.
 
If I had another day I could of got another doe on the way back from Canisteo clise to my brothers place a little after 4. I had just enough daylight to get the back staps and front legs off the two deer from yesterday. It will be a late night tonight cutti g these two up.
 
I'm trying to get out in the morning. But should be out in the after noon at my buddy's sisters place were I shot the doe. I've had 100% kill rate there. But anything brown is dieing tomorrow. Kinda wish I see a coyote there where foxes but I don't normally shot them, would like a fur tho.
 
I checked out you tube on tanning rabbit hides useing egg yolk. Seams easy enough.

When we got back here i striped the backstraps and front legs off then two does then took my dehydorator to my sons place and picked up the 7mm08 barrel fot the T/C Encore.
Got back here at six oclock and started butchering the two does. Just finished them vacum sealed tjehe meat up and threw it in the freezer. About six & a half hours start to finish. Picked up two nylon coolers and a box they fit in to haul a bunch of meat back to Washington.
I have a large flat rate box to send back snd have a bucket of meat to drop of at the place to make summer sausage and venison sticks beforexI go to the airport.
 
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Thank you Bert, my flight leaves Binghamton at 12.05. I got to the airport at 10 and I am the only one here except a security guy. So I will be the first in line when they start excepting check ins and give out the boarding passes.
I stayed up until 12.30 proccessing them two does last night. We took twenty-six pounds of meat over to Shaffs Meats on Martin Hill Road - Harpursville to get proccessed in to summer sausage, venison snack sticks, itialian sausage and five quarts of picked itailian sausage. The total will be $182. I will be shareing the the stuff with my brother and three kids back there.

I am checking in 45 pounds of frozen venison to take back and I stopped by the post office and sent two of the large flat rate boxes full of venison jerky I made plus another large flat rate box with some hunting stuff I will need back in Washington.
This has been a very enjoyable, seen deer everyday, got to spend some quality time with my family, got to meet and hunt with Troy and Bert. Bert got a deer on our hunt at my daughter & SIL's farm.
I took lots of pictures to put into a photo album.
 
Thank you Troy, next year we'll have to get you out over around Afton/Harpursville area.
All checked in and waiting for the jet to jet here to get here, unload then load our carcasses up for the trip to Detroit then an hour & five minute lay over. Then on to Seattle.
 
Check in was easy, two nylon semi insulated collers that fit right into the box my brother had with a couple of inches of space left. I put my 7mm08 Encore barrel and a few other things in the box.
My oldest son will be listing five other Encore parrels on e bay for me then I will look around for some 15" Encore or Contender barrels in 22 Hornet, 222 Rem. 30/30, 243 Win, 308 Win and a couple of others.
 
Went out today, me and my buddy were sitting on top a hill in the property I give a good view. He was facing South and me north. About 30 minutes after sitting down, I see a deer way off like 300 yards. We were in pretty think stuff but the deer was in even thicker stuff with some pine trees. Very hard to see I was even losing the deer in the binos. There were 3 others them seen some turkey. Looked like the were going around the hill.

I figured my buddy would see them, but they just keeped walking slow back and forth. I watched the for about a hour, my buddy walked up the hill and I have the sign for deer. He sat next to me. We waited 30 more minutes then one walks out some, I was on it then we stopped I had no shot of the shoulder only the back legs.

My friend said he had a shot, I told him to take it. He missed and it was so think even looking through the scope it was hard to see them. We went down to check no blood. We waited till dark but the woods seemed quiet after that.

I could not believe all the tracks we seen hundreds, Turkey mixed in. I forgot my camera. So it's a hot spot given the snow is not a week old yet

I think I can get out Sunday with him. I'll try to get out tomorrow morning if I can. I was just happy to watch deer today.
 
Highland Lofts said:
I will be doing a bunch of jerky and drop some meat off and have them make some summer sausage and deer slim jims. .
Still time to get another deer or two in things go right. I love the transferable doe tags.
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Mmm...venison jerky, haven't had that in a while! There was a Polish deli/ butcher in Yonkers that I used to drop my deer off with. They processed it into jerky, venison kielbasa, plus vacuum packed the regular cuts. I used to get more meat back from them than any other butcher I'd used.

The only downside was he said health regulations insisted it be skinned before being brought in. Not a tremendous deal, but more work.
 
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