My Best Recipe

Well, another deer season has come and gone.  In my earlier years of hunting I had to come up with some creative recipes at the end of the season.  It's all in the spices.

• 3 Tbsp Kansas City Steak seasoning
• 1 tsp spicy garlic salt
• 1 Tbsp parsley flakes
• 2 Tbsp Franks Red Hot
• dash of pepper
• 1 egg
• 2 cups of bread crumbs
• 1/2 cup 1/2 & 1/2
• 1 expired unfilled deer tag (antlerless or buck will do)

beat egg and mix with red hot and 1/2 & 1/2.  In a separate bowl mix dry ingredients.  Rinse permit under water.  Dip in egg mixture then dry mixture and through the egg again.  Cook in hot oil for 2 minutes per side.
Serve over rice with country gravy.  This is my best recipe for unused antlerless tags.  What the hell am I doing with doe tags left over?  If I had seen a deer I wouldn't have any tags left.

Striped Bass should be heading north and be in our waters in 5 months!  Squirrel season opens beginning of September.  Partridge, Pheasant and Quail mid October.  Bow should be open mid October also.  I still have late season goose and coyote.  I should try this recipe on goose, I have never liked goose, can't get much worse!

Stay tuned, I should be picking up a German Shorthaired Pointer puppy in a few weeks.  I have a feeling there will be some good stories forthcoming.  Thank God 2010 is over, I am looking forward to the challenges of 2011!!!  Bring it on!!!

Must Not Have Stocked Yet

I just walked, yes walked for 5 hours without cutting a single track.  It wasn't hunting, it was more like taking "the black powder" for a walk.  I wanted to find a fresh track and hunt that deer so I just started walking to look for a good track.  Not a single deer track.  Saw a couple of coyote tracks, squirrels, rabbits, maybe a fisher, and a couple of human tracks.  Best I can come up with is "must not have stocked yet".  I have run into this before, striper fishing in the canal, I think I need to contact Fisheries and Wildlife and complain.

Fresh Blanket of Snow

There is a fresh blanket of snow on the ground.  What to do, meet with a roofer?  A plumber for the apartment?  Last minute Christmas shopping?  Food store for Christmas dinner?  Didn't you hear what I said?  A fresh blanket of snow!!  That means deer hunting!!  A great morning for getting on a fresh track and following like a hound dog!!

Deer Sightings

Monday night I brought the dogs out to take care of business.  Clover immediately leaped the fence and headed towards the garden.  At about 50 yards, just inside the shadows left by the rear light, a deer blew at deafening volume.  She crashed through the briars at the back of the garden.  The other dogs were staring intently in the direction of the sound.  Not a sound out of the Beagle/mix, just tear-assing after that doe.  I called to the dog and she came right back, I think she was a little surprised by the size of the intruder.  I shined the flashlight out into the woods and the eyes were aglow.  Two deer standing about 100 yards deep in the woods looking back at the house. 

On Tuesday night I decided to hit them with the flashlight before bringing out the dogs.  The two doe where standing 35 yards from the back steps.  One was very, very big just standing broadside, head turned towards me.  What a sight.  Yet, they have not been around during the daylight.  They must be bedding down a pretty good distance from the homestead because they are not coming around until 10 or 10:30 at night.  Then I read a neighbor's face book page (probably 1/4 down street) and she reports an 8 pointer (a 4x4 for you muley chasers) munching on the shrubs in her side yard in the middle of the day.  I thought the rut and late rut were past but maybe one of these does is still going.  Hope to get in the woods very soon and try hunting him.

Massachusetts weather is saying "maybe" some snow coming on Sunday!!  I feel a sickness coming on for Monday!!