Venison....

[Dogfish]

You cut it in half, load it on an ATV, then cut it up. 257lbs of ground!

The rifle is a .458 caliber AR.

 

[Brunty_Farms]

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Man that is awesome... how does elk taste? With that thing and a couple of deer your set all year! Nice...

 

[Doormantnt]

WOW...LOLOLOL...

Great pics Dogfish!!!!!!

I bet that 4 wheeler was "interesting" to ride out like that..LOL.. How far was the ride with that load??

I think we have alot in common....I LOVE my selection of "black guns"....and the AR is a wonderful platform to build with.

The majority of my modern hunting is with a shotgun (Marlin Slugmaster bolt gun), but I make sure I go to mountians to take some rifles for a walk at least couple days of season.

TNT

 

[Dogfish]

Elk is better than our blacktail deer. Not gamey at all. The ride was only about a mile. Shot the elk in the river bottom area. Getting it up on the quad was the interesting part, and the ride out was non-eventful. Notice how low the front tires are?

The .458 does have some black on it, but I laminated the carbon fiber fore-end with walnut, and did the same to the buffer tube cover I made out of fiberglass. I have a few (8) AR's of different configurations, but they are all scary accurate, even my old Colt SP-1 from 1968.

The elk, a roosevelt elk, not rocky mountain, scored 308 boone & crocket points, so I made the book. Wasn't attempting to do so, just got lucky that day.

 

[Doormantnt]

Yeah I saw the front end squatted, and assumed steering was "interesting"...

I have one of the AR, set up for ground hogs. .223 H-bar. and it is scary accurate. It has no problem hanging with brothers handloaded 25-06.

Congrats on the elk. What does a good blacktail run weight-wise??

Here we have whitetail and on the eastern shore sika deer. They are an overgrown dog size, with elk like rack.

TNT

 

[Dogfish]

Most blacktail bucks run 150lb in the round. More mature bucks can go upwards of 200lbs. My son's deer was in the 200lb range, and had almost no teeth left, so he was regressing.

 

[Jared77]

SUPER jealous! Elk meat is great. That .458 bet as some recoil on it! Great job

 

[Beth G.]

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My life long dream is to get to go Elk hunting!!!!! I've eaten plenty of it since my relatives live in both Colorado and Montana. My personal favorite is cold smoked sausage

now that's GOOD EATS!!

Good Job!

 

[eKo_birdies]

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no disrepect.. i'm a springfield girl myself...

but..

... i really think people need to stop calling and assuming meat taking out of the wild is TRULY organic. living out in prime muley country i can tell you that they easily consume plenty of synthetic chemicals/pesticides. there are horrid amounts of invasives out here they they treat heavily w/ herbicides. then there are the planes that drop insecticides (to kill the mosquitoes in the summer) right over the drinking holes, ponds, creeks, etc that the free range cattle, deer, antelope and elk all drink out of. not to mention, i'm sure that the deer spend plenty of time consuming GM crops. sorry, but as someone who spends their entire life dealing with organic agriculture... that is not even close to organic.


i'm not saying the meat isn't quality (i have a freezer full of elk, muleys, and antelope from out here in CO)... it is certainly better than large scale organic animal production that does allow the use of antibiotics and other undesirables... but it's not TRULY organic (and for the record the only meat i consume is grown here or hunted here or from my parents' farm in iowa).

just sayin'...

 

[Doormantnt]

No offense taken here.

The organic comment was little sarcasic actually..
The majority of my hunting is done on public land directly ajacent to a local power plant, and while it is no Chernobyl, or 3 Mile island, I know it is not the Garden of Eden either. But the deer don't have 2 heads, or an extra eye. LOL...

Much like "free range organic" chickens, if an unorganic substance is around, they can and will get to it and then no longer organic.

At least the deer are not like cattle, and basicly force fed......other sick, dead cattle. But I don't want to open that can of worms..LOL..

I'll give them the benifit of the doubt and assume given the choice the wildlife will be a little pickier with their food choices.

So, point well taken. All I can say is it is good eatin'. And healtier then beef, even the local beef here at least.

TNT