Beekissed
Mountain Sage
I just applied for my first deer permit for crop damage. I normally wouldn't do it this way and we would hunt them honestly but the conditions just aren't right where we live.
Last year we had 13 deer in the orchard every night and we let them stay, anticipating the fall kills. We got one 8 pt. buck at the first of the bowhunting season. Then we saw the neighbor who rents the field next to us riding his 4-wheeler up on the ridge every evening. After that the deer were coming in at night only. We figure they encountered a tasty corn pile that stopped them on their way to our place. Well, when they go nocturnal and you only have one place to hunt...right here on our 1+ acre...we were stumped. Never saw another deer, the whole season, until after dark.
We depend on that meat as it is the only meat we eat. We don't buy store bought meat and wouldn't buy much red meat if we did. So, this year we are going to get that freezer filled one way or the other. We applied for the crop damage permit and are allowed 5 deer kills! They even let you spotlight them until 11 pm. Well, we've never spotlighted before, so we won't be doing that! I don't particularly like to put up deer when its this warm, nor do I like to kill a doe who may be feeding a fawn, so I am getting an extension on that permit until late summer/early fall. We aren't big on gun hunting either, so this won't feel very sporting but, at least we'll have winter meat. My freezer is very small, so I will be canning a good bit.
This fall we will try to bowhunt again, like normal, but we are kind of limited here.
Anyone else put meat in the freezer this way? This is kind of new to us and it feels kind of wrong, but I'm going to do it anyway.
Last year we had 13 deer in the orchard every night and we let them stay, anticipating the fall kills. We got one 8 pt. buck at the first of the bowhunting season. Then we saw the neighbor who rents the field next to us riding his 4-wheeler up on the ridge every evening. After that the deer were coming in at night only. We figure they encountered a tasty corn pile that stopped them on their way to our place. Well, when they go nocturnal and you only have one place to hunt...right here on our 1+ acre...we were stumped. Never saw another deer, the whole season, until after dark.
We depend on that meat as it is the only meat we eat. We don't buy store bought meat and wouldn't buy much red meat if we did. So, this year we are going to get that freezer filled one way or the other. We applied for the crop damage permit and are allowed 5 deer kills! They even let you spotlight them until 11 pm. Well, we've never spotlighted before, so we won't be doing that! I don't particularly like to put up deer when its this warm, nor do I like to kill a doe who may be feeding a fawn, so I am getting an extension on that permit until late summer/early fall. We aren't big on gun hunting either, so this won't feel very sporting but, at least we'll have winter meat. My freezer is very small, so I will be canning a good bit.
This fall we will try to bowhunt again, like normal, but we are kind of limited here.
Anyone else put meat in the freezer this way? This is kind of new to us and it feels kind of wrong, but I'm going to do it anyway.
I've been meaning to ask...what, exactly is a yote? Never heard of one in these parts! 
