Opening day tomorrow

[c1skout]

 here in PA.  I'll be toting the 45-70 since I've yet to shoot a deer with it, my niece is borrowing my 44mag, and another niece will be using her 45/410 survivor (this is her first season).
  Good luck to the rest of you PA hunters.

[Cottonwood]

Good luck, ours just is wrapping up today, and now I can focus on predators.

[petemi]

Tomorrow's our last day, and so far I'm skunked (sorry, Skunk)  First time in 20 years.  The weather is improving (getting cold and Nasty) and I still have one more day.  Friday, our ML season opens for 10 days, and by that time there should be snow up on the Superior shore.  That always brings them down here.  That ML season isn't your Mother-in-Law  Our deer on the Upper Peninsula migrate south in early winter and back north again in the early Spring.

Good Hunting.

Pete

[quickdtoo]

Best of luck, our season ended last Sunday, I didn't get one, but my hunting partner did, I'll get half of it as he's sharing, still waiting for the butcher to call!! 

Tim

[95Road King]

Ya, here in Pa I'll be out tomorrow. Taking my H&R Buffalo Classic in 45-70. Supposed to rain. Seems like it rains every year the 1st day!!

[petemi]

still waiting for the butcher to call!! 
Tim

I got tired of that about dozen years ago and built a meat room in the barn.  I've got cabinets, countertops and drawers, a deep sink with hot and cold water, heat and electric hoist with gambrel and a vacuum sealer.  We can use the hoist also to pull the hide off the deer.  I'd shoot a butterball doe, wait two or three weeks and get back someones 150 year old inedible buck.  And only about half as much venison as you'd have doing it yourself.  They mostly buzz it up with a bandsaw, while ours is totally boneless.

Rain has its pluses and minuses.  It seems as though it rained most of the season here.  It's nice and quiet walking in the woods, but it's hard to follow a blood trail.  Also, the gun needs a good going through when you get home......and ya can't let it wait til morning.

Pete

[quickdtoo]

I used to cut my own deer up occasionally, but the inconvenience of transforming the dining room table into a make-do butcher shop got real old with the wife, and when we returned from a week or two long hunting trip with multiple deer and up to four elk, it's just not an option, one year we took a trailer full of deer and elk, over 1200lbs worth trimmed meat ready to be cut up. So we've been taking our game to a local butcher shop that knows how to process wild game, they don't use power equipment to work on wild game as they do domestic stock, just knives to do the work, we also always get our meat back since we clean it very thoroughly of all hair and bloodshot meat before we take it to them, we've never been disappointed with their work in the 20yrs or so we've been using them. It's not cheap tho, .65¢ a lb and their minimum is $50 regardless of the weight.

Tim

[petemi]

That's great that you have someone reliable, around here, they're butchers in the true sense of the word.  I've herard them brag they can process a deer in 20 minutes.

Pete