Deer Gun Season Weather

[Lon371]

  I know a lot of people like it cold. But I like it cool, I get chilled to fast and work in the weather 5 days a week. So I do not like cold weather!
  It appears from the forecast we are looking a warmer weather next weekend 61 degrees. Which is a tad to warm. We will have to use extra caution after the kill to get the deer cooled down. This means more time out of the field . I am going to try to talk to the Amish up the road and see what their process is after taking a deer. I do know for long term they smoke all their deer meat.

 What do you do on warmer days after the kill?. Myself, well lets just say my honey knows where the processor is I love that woman!

Lonny

[bigvarmnt]

Wear a nice Blaze Orange t-shirt and sunscreen. I have an old refridgerator filled with ice on a trailer behind my 4-wheeler. Shoot it, skin it, quarter it, put on ice, have a few cold beverages. Can't wait for the fun to begin.
A GOOD camp woman is hard to find.

[squirrellluck]

Lived in Indiana for16 yrs. and hunted Parke county where I lived. Did the same thing up there I do down here in Louisiana. Gut em, skin em, quarter and toss them in the ice chest, fill with ice and water. Drain and repeat daily until processed

[Dinny]

I, too, enjoy hunting in the cooler weather.  One of my hunting spots is overlooking a small pool in a creek where there's always water and if the weather is warmer, the bucks will stop by for a drink.  I flat-out enjoy deer hunting regardless of the weather.  It is best to get the meat cooled as soon as possible.

I am going to try to talk to the Amish up the road and see what their process is after taking a deer. I do know for long term they smoke all their deer meat.

Smoked venison, yum yum!    


Dinny

[Lon371]

 Um Dinny

 Just so you know, it has rained a bunch this summer. I have a little creek in our main hunting area. It is usually close to dry come gun season. Went there today to trim some trees. Water is 1 foot deep in a lot of spots and running. It is not the normal dry with little pools. At least where we hunt. There was a German shepard there with us. Some spots were deep enough he had to swim to cross!

Lonny

[Dinny]

Um Dinny
 Just so you know, it has rained a bunch this summer. I have a little creek in our main hunting area. It is usually close to dry come gun season. Went there today to trim some trees. Water is 1 foot deep in a lot of spots and running. It is not the normal dry with little pools. At least where we hunt. There was a German shepard there with us. Some spots were deep enough he had to swim to cross!
Lonny

Well there's always Plan B, hunt the high lands where it's dry.  Maybe with all the rain, they'll be concentrated in tighter groups when bedding down for the night.


Thanks, Dinny

[Lon371]

  For now they appear to be using the same trails they have been using. When we checked stands and cleared some tree branches earlier, I found a surprise. Midway between my daughters stand and my stand is a scrape, 3' circle below a licking stick they mark every year Directly below my boys stand is a main trail, they are using it to cross from field to field

 For the moment we still have 2 cornfields, we are hunting the edges of. Both have a 30 yard grass barrier around. So it should be fairly easy to fill the freezer

Lonny

[theoldarcher]

I had to chuckle at the Amish remark.  Up here in heavy-duty Amish country, they all use generators and have freezers, meat saws, etc., and more aminities for handling things like this than I do--a mere English.      Unfortunately, the also use the entire male population, it seems, and hold drives right off to bat and shoot anything that runs out regardless of size.  Most of their meat here is canned.  Their hunting methods have significantly reduced numbers where several families live close together.  But that's another topic--handling deer meat is a breeze for most of them up this way.

Speaking iof equipment, you'd get a kick out of the bass boats pulled behind buggies headed for some of the lakes around here.  A few Amish enter some of the local bass tournaments.  Now that's a hoot! 

Best of luck this weekend!  Arch

[Lon371]

theoldarcher

 They must not be related to the ones around here. They do not use electricity except the ones who have the big buzz saw. The rest still adhere to the old standard. They do purchase things from the local stores, but still do a lot bartering. They do use shotguns(single shot only) and muzzle loaders. Not heard of any of them doing drives. They do have ice houses for storage, but smoke most of their meat.

 Oh yeah and make the best darn cinnamon rolls you have ever eaten!

Lonny

[teddy12b]

I just hope the weather is better than last year on opening day.  That nasty cold rain was rough.  According to weather.com where I hunt this weekend will be cloudy in the 50's saturday and raining and colder on Sunday.  I'm taking my father in law out this weekend and it'd be nice for one of us if not both to get one this weekend.


I grew up around the Amish and around here they have solar panels and cell phones.  I don't have anything against them for and can't blaim them.

[LaOtto222]

I grew up in Amish country - LaGrange County. Before 1970 there were no Amish East of Hwy 9, now they have pushed way East of that, almost to the Eastern boarder. I could tell a bunch of stories about them. Phones are one thing they just can not seem to live with out. Before cell phones, they would have a payphone in the yard or on a County road corner, but you could not drive up and use it, only Amish were allowed to use it. It is funny to see a horse and buggy hitched up to a telephone booth. Now those have went to the way side and they all use cell phones now. By the way, gasoline engines are OK. They use them for every thing from pumping water (Windmills are thing of the past) to generators. They buy used farm tractors and put steel wheels on them and use those for stationary power plants, for running wheat threshers and such. There are several small business people in the county especially over by Shipswana that have big desiel generators to run their equipment. I even lived with an Amish family for week in the summer months when I was a kid. Yep, I have lots of stories.

[bigvarmnt]

LaOtto, I wondered what happened to you. I went up 3 past 205 everyday last week. Stuck my head out the window and heard NO shooting. Even went to LaGrange and got stuck in a Amish pasture behind the barns. I deal with the Amish almost daily. They are, shall I say, Different That's why you're up so early. Since they got them cell phones, they think it's OK to call you at 5am.
This weather will be OK for sitting in a tree but I don't want to drag a deer very far. I worked up a heck of a sweat today just pushing a leaf blower around.

[schoolmaster]

Don't care what the weather is. I will be out there.

[Dinny]

My very old (51 y/o) parents will be in groundblinds.   I will be in a treestand.  But not until the 21st or so. I don't get home in IL until the 15th.
After last year, I think I can hunt during almost any weather we are thrown in S. IN.


Lol, Dinny 

[Lon371]

Dinny

I will be in a treestand.  But not until the 21st or so. I don't get home in IL until the 15th.

 DUDE it dont take 6 days to travel from Ill to Indiana. What did you say you drive?

After last year, I think I can hunt during almost any weather we are thrown in S. IN

I hear ya. I dont care what it does. I am on vacation from Saturday through Wednesday. I know where i will be. Like my honey says, "we are legal seperated for deer season" unless I need a dear hauled
Gotta luv that woman!
Lonny

[Dinny]

DUDE it dont take 6 days to travel from Ill to Indiana. What did you say you drive?

That old Dodge of mine will really get it with the Hemi cranked buuuut, I have to in-process, turn-in my equipment and spend a day or two with my wife and daughter before I separate myself from them. They won't be more than 30 minutes away and I will only see them for a few hours in the afternoon while I hunt.   

Dinny