Opening Day Success in Florida
09-25-2015, 01:26 PM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Another congtradulations. Nice X-Bow buck.
I bet some of the guys way up north cannot fathom hunting in 90 +/- degree F , humid conditions such as we put up with here in the deep south. With gnats, 'skeeters, horse flies, wasps, sweat bees, etc. looking to you for a meal. Not to mention poisonous snakes ... and in your part of the world the diamond back rattler. I am a tad too far north for those critters, but we get some hefty timber rattlers from time to time. Again, good looking buck. Juat curious, what'd he weigh?
I bet some of the guys way up north cannot fathom hunting in 90 +/- degree F , humid conditions such as we put up with here in the deep south. With gnats, 'skeeters, horse flies, wasps, sweat bees, etc. looking to you for a meal. Not to mention poisonous snakes ... and in your part of the world the diamond back rattler. I am a tad too far north for those critters, but we get some hefty timber rattlers from time to time. Again, good looking buck. Juat curious, what'd he weigh?
09-27-2015, 02:03 PM
#13
Typical Buck
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Posts: 516
Another congtradulations. Nice X-Bow buck.
I bet some of the guys way up north cannot fathom hunting in 90 +/- degree F , humid conditions such as we put up with here in the deep south. With gnats, 'skeeters, horse flies, wasps, sweat bees, etc. looking to you for a meal. Not to mention poisonous snakes ... and in your part of the world the diamond back rattler. I am a tad too far north for those critters, but we get some hefty timber rattlers from time to time. Again, good looking buck. Juat curious, what'd he weigh?
I bet some of the guys way up north cannot fathom hunting in 90 +/- degree F , humid conditions such as we put up with here in the deep south. With gnats, 'skeeters, horse flies, wasps, sweat bees, etc. looking to you for a meal. Not to mention poisonous snakes ... and in your part of the world the diamond back rattler. I am a tad too far north for those critters, but we get some hefty timber rattlers from time to time. Again, good looking buck. Juat curious, what'd he weigh?
10-04-2015, 11:22 PM
#16
Typical Buck
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Posts: 516
Thanks. The color is cool and glad it turned out as white as it did. YouTube helped a lot. I did the creme 40 volume and basic white for these skulls. I'm trying to find a 3 or 4 gallon pot and get the 20 volume and boil it in peroxide. Think it would be easier especially with the hog skull. This is the hog I did as well.
10-05-2015, 06:01 PM
#17
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Maine & northern FloRida
Posts: 195
Great looking skulls, I am jealous. I will be doing my first hog hunt at the end of the month, had planned on shooting behind the ear but after seeing the skulls I don't want to ruin the mount.... Great job!
10-07-2015, 04:30 PM
#19
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Maine & northern FloRida
Posts: 195
I am going on a hog hunt in Florida the last week of the month. Next year I plan on archery in the swannee for two weeks, this is All the vacation time I can take in one lump in the fall. I do a couple other Fl trips but only one during hunting season. Pulling a boat down on this trip so I will do some fishing in the spring.
Have some general maintenance to do on the house while I down so can't play all the time.
Defiantly like the bleached skulls, I want a couple of those for the walls. I can't wait to put some hog in the freezer. I keep hearing different things about the meat but I have heard a lot about venison, bear, moose, and caribou but I like all of them.... I think handling has a lot to do with it.
Have some general maintenance to do on the house while I down so can't play all the time.
Defiantly like the bleached skulls, I want a couple of those for the walls. I can't wait to put some hog in the freezer. I keep hearing different things about the meat but I have heard a lot about venison, bear, moose, and caribou but I like all of them.... I think handling has a lot to do with it.
10-11-2015, 11:50 PM
#20
Typical Buck
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Posts: 516
I'm not really sure but I heard the same thing about the big boar hogs. The hog I got tasted just fine. We mainly make maple flavored sausage or ground pork and season it with different seasonings we buy from our local meat processor. The backstraps were a little tough but again tasted just fine! We have a nice 3/4 horse grinder and a mixer we got from Cabelas. Nothing like making it yourself and everyone asks where I take it to get the meat done. The faces I get when people eat the sausage. What I really enjoy are the cherry/apple flavor venison burger's we make! Mmmmmmm