Drank the Kool-aid for decades.

[Artful]

Opening day yesterday and the M70 did its thing. One shot kill.

It is my first deer, and I am 66. So almost my shooting has been on targets and in competition.

Don Verna

Great to hear Don - congratulations, are you going to process the meat yourself or take it to a butcher shop?
Once you start eating wild game it opens a whole new culinary world.

[dverna]

Artful, thanks for the kind words. I took out the backstraps, liver and heart; and delivered the deer to a local processor who is highly rated.

My girlfriend is only mildly supportive and I had her stay at her place so she did not see the dead animal. I hope she enjoys the venison and this will be a regular event. Frankly, I get more fun out of the comraderie with the guys at deer camp than hunting/shooting. A deer is a huge target, unless it is running, so making the shot was not challenging.....this time.

Don Verna

[RU shooter]

My girlfriend is only mildly supportive and I had her stay at her place so she did not see the dead animal. I hope she enjoys the venison and this will be a regular event.

Don Verna

so im not the only one with a girlfriend like that ! Lol It took her a few months after she watched me club a few catfish and fillet them when they were still twitching to actually eat them now she goes fishing with me ! . I'm sure an seeing a bloody animal would incure the same reaction . But she does eat the venison I bring home not her favorite but she's a trooper about it