Warning! If you are vegetarian, or anti-hunting or squeamish in regards to blood and/or death, you probably want to skip this post. If none of those apply to you, then by all means, read on!
DH has gotten a very nice 8-point buck with his crossbow. After shooting at two nice ones last year, and getting neither into the freezer (one we tracked into the corn field on a very scant blood trail, but then lost it about twelve rows in--it was found a few days later by the combine harvesting corn about 50 more yards in from where we'd finally given up searching after several hours of trying to pick up the trail again), both DH and I were very afraid that this buck was going to be another heart breaking hunting experience.
But, thankfully, the 'curse' has been broken and he easily tracked and recovered--in the dark, no less-- (with my help, we're a team in most everything) this big buck. This picture, taken at the point in the woods that it was laying when we reached the end of the blood trail, doesn't do it justice.
Field dressed, it weighed in at 140 pounds, which is not bad at all for a Michigan whitetail.
DH let it hang and dry age a few days before quartering it and bringing it in the house to debone and finish processing. Currently, with exception of the burger meat which we have yet to run through the grinder (tomorrow after work), it is all cut, wrapped and in the freezer.
Well, in the interest of full disclosure, several pounds have also gone into our stomachs, as we had tenderloin and onions for breakfast yesterday, heart and onions for breakfast today, and venison steak with roasted garlic and sweet potatoes for dinner tonight. Gotta love boosting my iron levels with tasty lean red meat!
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