Finally dragged myself out and got my first deer. Hunted with one of my daughters Saturday a week ago in the morning and passed up a small doe. Hunted that evening with my son (and switched out the Rem700 .308 for the much handier 6.8AR) and my son elbowed me about 20 minutes til sun down and pointed out two moving towards us. Let the smaller doe walk and starched the larger 5 point buck. He was a fat boy. A brother-in-law showed me how to do the gutless butchering process and several of my kids got involved. We let it sit in a cooler over ice for a week and then had my kids grind most of it up and grilled slices of backstrap for dinner this past Saturday. Unfortunately i overcooked the backstrap steaks but they were still good.
Good times!
Nate
Good times!
Nate