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Buck_110 said:
Somebody taught you well.
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And here he is...Fishing with me in Maine this summer. Northern Pike: 33 inches and a smidge under 10 lbs. That's a happy look on his face btw.

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338375 said:
G, the video was actually on a comedy hunting video my friend had. Next time I talk to him, I'll see if he can give me the name of it. I remember the whole thing was hilarious. IIRC, after gutting it, they just cut the hide around the neck, put a small rock under the hide and tied it in place with a rope, and tied the rope to the bumper on a pickup. I don't remember if they slit the hide up the legs or not.
Then they backed up the truck to take the slack out of the rope and stretched him out. Once they got the hide to start moving, it came off fairly easily.

Trees ???? We got lots of trees here in Oregon. On the west side of the state,there are so many fir trees, its like a jungle...
However, on the eastern side of Oregon (the good side:D) we have mostly Ponderosa Pines and Junipers. The trees are a lot more spread out too.
Makes it a lot easier to see the animals
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Yea but David Martin doesn't :)
I was in Portland a few years back. That part of the state is quite nice.
 
Flatlander1963 said:
And here he is...Fishing with me in Maine this summer. Northern Pike: 33 inches and a smidge under 10 lbs. That's a happy look on his face btw.

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We don't have those out here. How are they to eat? I've watched them fishin for them on t.v, it looks like they put up a good fight....

I've still got a couple of those old Zebco's. A small one and a bigger one
 
We have a good many trees here mostly scrub oaks but still lots of large red oaks and junipers . I could'nt drag my buck to the nearest large tree and do it in that manner . Yes, I know the method but I hunt alone and a few years back I had help and drug one in to weigh . It weighed 225lbs.. Just by myself I'm not going to make that effort when it may be 300 yds. to a suitable tree . So, I just move him as little as possible, point his tail down hill, tie his legs off and go to work . Then put the quarters in game bags and hang those in a nearby suitable tree(a small one can work for that) . Go back to truck or home and get my freighter pack and return to pack them out . Sometimes get the wife if she's not teaching that day to come make pictures . DM
 
David Martin said:
We have a good many trees here mostly scrub oaks but still lots of large red oaks and junipers . I could'nt drag my buck to the nearest large tree and do it in that manner . Yes, I know the method but I hunt alone and a few years back I had help and drug one in to weigh . It weighed 225lbs.. Just by myself I'm not going to make that effort when it may be 300 yds. to a suitable tree . So, I just move him as little as possible, point his tail down hill, tie his legs off and go to work . Then put the quarters in game bags and hang those in a nearby suitable tree(a small one can work for that) . Go back to truck or home and get my freighter pack and return to pack them out . Sometimes get the wife if she's not teaching that day to come make pictures . DM
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I was hoping you weren't going to say, you went to get the wife to have her help you pack. :D

Packing out an animal, especially an Elk, is a labor of love. By the time your done, you wish you would have never shot it. But in the middle of the winter, you go get a couple packs of Elk steak out of the freezer, and every minute of it was worth it :D
 
338, I agree ! 300 Bucks has posted pictures of him doing this way as well . My wife will tell you, I really enjoy all of it or I wouldn't do it .
Flat, I enjoy your fishing pictures just as much as your knife pictures . By the look on your dads face, I'd say that one bent the rod alittle . Father and son, still having fun . DM
 
David Martin said:
We have a good many trees here mostly scrub oaks but still lots of large red oaks and junipers . I could'nt drag my buck to the nearest large tree and do it in that manner . Yes, I know the method but I hunt alone and a few years back I had help and drug one in to weigh . It weighed 225lbs.. Just by myself I'm not going to make that effort when it may be 300 yds. to a suitable tree . So, I just move him as little as possible, point his tail down hill, tie his legs off and go to work . Then put the quarters in game bags and hang those in a nearby suitable tree(a small one can work for that) . Go back to truck or home and get my freighter pack and return to pack them out . Sometimes get the wife if she's not teaching that day to come make pictures . DM
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DM,
I always carry a pack frame back at the truck. As one never knows where you may drop your deer, bear, or what ever. Most of the time we can get a 4X4 close enough to drag them out, then they get hung & skinned in camp.

Deer season in my neck of the woods is still warm most of the time and the deer are covered with flea's and tick's so none of the crap you see in some of the old books of a guy with a deer getting carried over the shoulders. Well when I was a young buck myself, I did try that with a black tail buck...only made it for about 100 yards and had a bunch of flea's down my back..LOL. lesson learned the hard way, I'll never do that again.

One year we dropped a 350 lbs Black bear about 300 yards from a logging spur road. The only problem was the 300 yards was on the side of a hill at about 60 degree angle and the hill side was covered with a thick carpet of dried oak leave's. So it was part & pack him (we had no pack) or drag him down hill for about a mile. We opted to drag him down hill:thumbup:....:thumbdn:. He was still about 300lbs of dead weight and caught on every twig, root, & rock. The bear was taken at about 5:30 PM and we did not pop out on the lower spur road until just after midnight:thumbdn:. From that day on there is always a pack frame in my truck.
jb4570
 
It started when the oldest granddaughter took her dads thutty aught six to this nice 8pt


Her Dad helped get the skinning part going while she called in and bragged to Grandma and Great Grandma.


Then her little bucklite came into play.


And of course competitive little sister has to get involved while Dad splits the insides of the legs.


Mom didn't get a pic of "The Rock" going under the skin" before the little one jumped in the truck and let it idle away.


Just a slow steady pull is enough


I's nice to be at the point in life where Grandpa, and Dad, to a degree, can stand back and watch.


While older sis peels backstrap, the little one takes the nippers to the hind legs, and its just a matter of separating the parts after that.


Click each frame once, and then again when it goes to photobucket, for max size,,,, And that is a little bit on truck skinnin.
 
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Awsome pictures PR!!! Now I know what a boat winch, some rope, a rock, and a Ford can do. I image that speeds things up a lot!

Someone asked how pike taste. I've never ate one. Send them all back wince they came. They are supposed to have a nice light flavor. Nice white meat but an issue with litte bones. Similar to a gar I suppose. People do eat them all the time however but I'm a catch and release guy most all the time now. g
 
Flatlander1963 said:
Awsome pictures PR!!! Now I know what a boat winch, some rope, a rock, and a Ford can do. I image that speeds things up a lot!
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Speeds the whole process up a whole bunch. But the rope around the rock is actually a 1/8 inch cable with a couple of loops clamped on each end. Larger fixed loop goes around the hitch ball and the rock loop is a slip loop that tightens up around the rock. Rope at that point is too thick or too weak.

The boat winch and rope is heavier than what we originally started off with. Needed more strength. Up in the tree is a double two by six with a full length of half inch plywood sandwiched glued and nailed as a stiffener and moved to the back side of the tree limbs from what was there originally. A few loops of wire cable and a clamp holds the pulley.

Just a few tidbits there in case someone goes building one..
And this replicates the system the hired hands down on those big fancy game ranches uses. Dad got to go on one of those hunts and really checked them out.

Oh yeah,,,,The Rock. Bigger than a golf ball, smaller than a baseball. No one better loose that rock :)
 
Ratty,

Thanks for those photo's! I've got to try that next year in deer camp the kids will get a kick out of that....."less work". But, I will not get to play with the AG S30V 110 as much:(.
 
jb4570 said:
Ratty,

Thanks for those photo's! I've got to try that next year in deer camp the kids will get a kick out of that....."less work". But, I will not get to play with the AG S30V 110 as much:(.
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The reduced time will give you more time to sharpen up the S30V :D.
 
Hawkeye5 said:
Thanks for the pic's Larry. We do it the same way. But no wench.:D
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Gotta have that wench :D.... You know how tall I am not, and how tall son in law is.... constantly running that carcass up and down...lol :D

I also have a set of scales I put between the hook and the animal at times. That wench does great for that. But take the scales off before we use the CHEVY on truck skinnin. :)
 
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Pack Rat said:
Gotta have that wench :D.... You know how tall I am not, and how tall son in law is.... constantly running that carcass up and down...lol :D
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I did not even think about that.;) But a good idea.:thumbup:
Lot less pulling on the rope.:D

Boy I hope nobody saw that pic Flatlander had of that Buck 121 .:eek:
Now everyone is going to want one.;):D
 
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