Maggot went to camp in the North Woods

[sally]

My husbands friend just gave us a ton of deer meat, I won't have to buy meat for months. The part we ate tonight was the back strap. I don't know what the hell that is, but it tasted good.

[BlueTiki]

I cannot justify hunting for just a pelt anymore. But they do need to be controlled somehow. This year the woods were loaded with them.

Something for the ladies to change their minds re: men and bears

   

[Lady Cop]

hey Maggot, what do you do with the hide?
deerskin can be incredibly soft.
i want some moccasins

[Carsman]

Christmas decorations in the North Woods!

[Maggot]

I tossed the hides this year. You have to tan them and thats a pain. I have a few pcs from before that I used under the lamps and as a cover for the cedar chest but other than that they get tossed. Same with the head mounts that shit gets expensive after awhile. Everything is in nice tidy packages now.

[Lady Cop]

IOWA
Police are investigating an incident involving two deer hunters who left a bloody mess in a Bettendorf residential neighborhood, leading one of the neighbors to question whether the city should allow deer hunting within its limits.

Sarah Hayden, a member of the city’s deer hunting committee and an opponent of allowing deer hunting near residential areas, said two men tracked a deer they had shot Saturday through her yard and into the yard of her neighbor, where they killed the wounded deer.

She said the men then dragged the deer through the neighborhood to a creek near her home, where they dressed it and left the entrails in the creek. The nearby area is an approved bow hunting area.

Hayden said she was upset that the men didn’t clean up the trail of blood they left by dragging the deer through the neighborhood or notify property owners that they were tracking a deer through their yards.

“They just got their deer and left,” she said.

Hayden said there are small children in the neighborhood who should not have to look at a bloody mess or a deer with an arrow sticking out of it.

She said she did not see any boot prints in the snow near the deer stand, indicating no one had been in it recently. The city’s deer hunting ordinance requires hunters to fire from an elevated position. Changes approved last summer also require hunters to pass a proficiency test every year and to put their names and phone numbers on their tree stands.

Hayden said leaving the deer’s entrails in the creek also violated the city’s ordinance, and she thinks that practice may be contributing to recent problems with coyotes in the neighborhood.

The blood remained in the neighborhood until Monday morning, when a city crew shoveled away the bloody snow.

Bettendorf Police Chief Phil Redington said Monday he is investigating whether the hunters violated the city’s deer hunting ordinance. He said although city ordinance allows deer hunters to track a wounded deer through residential property, hunters are expected to act appropriately.

[Lady Cop]

who in hell eats cute little 'coons??

nevermind. Maggot's friend North woods Pete eats groundhogs and squirrels. ::bat::

Reuters

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Looking for raccoon meat? You won't find it at a country convenience store in South Carolina after state health inspectors told employees to throw out their supply.

Tipped off by a complaint, inspectors recently found the cleaned raccoon meat in plastic bags inside one of the store's coolers, along with bagged ice.

"In my 28 years with the agency, it's the first time I've heard of this," Thom Berry, spokesman for the state Department of Health and Environmental Control, said on Wednesday.

"My inspectors, they see all kinds of things, but this is something new even to them."

The Lucky 7 store -- located in Gadsden, near the state capital of Columbia -- removed the meat upon request, Berry said. But when inspectors went back several days later, they found it outside the building near some trash.

"We instructed the employees to bag it, pour bleach on it, tie it up and put it in the Dumpster," Berry said.

No law bans the sale of raccoon meat in South Carolina, but state and federal officials do not certify it as being safe for human consumption.

"It's kind of like squirrel," said Brett Witt, spokesman for the state Department of Natural Resources. "People do eat it. It's kind of on the lower end of animals. It's not as popular as deer or rabbit. There is a danger of ingesting any wild animal without proper preparation."

[Maggot]

C'mon ..........It's not like we have a nuclear meltdown or something. Is this really necessary? Damn rebels!