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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: ouchfoss on October 23, 2012, 10:12:22 AM

Title: Wife's buck
Post by: ouchfoss on October 23, 2012, 10:12:22 AM: My wife and I left our daughter with grandpa yesterday evening so we could go check a mushroom patch and see if some chantrelles or matsutakes are growing yet and my wife has a general deer tag and you couldn't ask for better blacktail weather. Not far from the mushroom patch we had a buck run across the road in front of us and so she went out in the woods after it. After a small stalk she ended up getting a 10 yard shot on a nice healthy spike! Thankfully she got a heart shot and it ran about 30 feet and tipped over and it was a fairly easy drag all downhill. I don't think she could be any happier!
Unfortunately, there wasn't squat in the mushroom patches. Very little new growth of the chantrelles in patches that are usually full of shrooms this time of year. Kinda hoping that changes in the next few weeks.
Oh well, I think it was still a pretty productive mushroom picking adventure. :chuckle: :tup:
Title: Re: Wife's buck
Post by: ouchfoss on October 23, 2012, 05:18:21 PM: I should mention that its a decent year for cauliflower mushroom though. I picked this one a few days ago and Im betting its a little over 20 lbs.

Fresh deer backstrap + Cauliflower Mushroom = Tonight's Dinner ! :EAT:
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Post by: C-Money on October 23, 2012, 05:32:08 PM: Nice! Congrats!! :tup:
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Post by: dbor on October 23, 2012, 05:37:34 PM: Congrats to your family... nice buck...looks like the Rain Forest still has one or two left...
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Post by: Chappyk16 on October 23, 2012, 06:10:12 PM: sounds like a pretty good dinner!
Title: Wife's buck
Post by: Austrian Hunter on October 23, 2012, 06:15:02 PM: Way to go!! What does a cauliflower taste like??? That thing is huge!!
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Post by: mdbuck5x5 on October 23, 2012, 07:46:26 PM: :tup: Nice job! I bet your hands didn't smell very good after grabbing those glands :chuckle:
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Post by: ouchfoss on October 23, 2012, 08:36:19 PM: Quote from: mdbuck5x5 on October 23, 2012, 07:46:26 PM
:tup: Nice job! I bet your hands didn't smell very good after grabbing those glands :chuckle:
She said she was too excited to notice!
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Post by: buck man on October 23, 2012, 08:40:41 PM: Great story. Love the mushroom.
Title: Re: Wife's buck
Post by: ouchfoss on October 23, 2012, 08:42:40 PM: Quote from: Austrian Hunter on October 23, 2012, 06:15:02 PM
Way to go!! What does a cauliflower taste like??? That thing is huge!!
Its hard to exlpain the taste because its a very unique flavor but the texture of it is kinda like a noodle which is why I use it in alot of meals that involve noodles.
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Post by: runningboard on October 23, 2012, 08:46:40 PM: congrats to her and good luck on the mushrooms :tup:
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on October 23, 2012, 08:55:15 PM: Congrats to her :tup:
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Post by: Michelle_Nelson on October 23, 2012, 08:59:33 PM: Good job! Thats a nice size body on that spike!
Title: Re: Wife's buck
Post by: ouchfoss on October 23, 2012, 09:29:37 PM: Quote from: Michelle_Nelson on October 23, 2012, 08:59:33 PM
Good job! Thats a nice size body on that spike!
Thats what I have been telling her. I've killed 5 different spikes over the years and none of them were that big!
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Post by: X-Force on October 23, 2012, 09:33:54 PM: :tup: Congrats to her!!
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Post by: Huntbear on October 24, 2012, 05:26:23 PM: That is awesome!!!! Congrats to the lady huntress!!!!!! :tup: :tup: :tup: :tup:
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Post by: KillBilly on October 24, 2012, 05:39:24 PM: Nice Job, wish I had been there for some backstrap. Now you'll have to teach Isabel how to kill em..... :tup:
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Post by: Ripper on October 24, 2012, 05:41:32 PM: Congrats to the wife and you on a fine fine dinner! :drool:
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Post by: ouchfoss on October 24, 2012, 06:08:58 PM: Quote from: KillBilly on October 24, 2012, 05:39:24 PM
Nice Job, wish I had been there for some backstrap. Now you'll have to teach Isabel how to kill em..... :tup:
A few years down the road and she will slinging arrows with daddy for sure! Looking forward to it!