I was on Laguna yesterday no bucks, many i saw 2does with a fawn then 200 yds donwhill another doe alone , and near parking lot another doe alone, I think they was near strus in laguna back hunting tomorrow.
Spent the night up on Black Mt last night. Got up early and hiked around to the north east side overlooking Mesa Grande. Glassed for a few hours and never saw any deer. Strange because I almost always see deer somewhere on Black Mt. Could be the warm spell and the high pressure. On the down side, there were a number of plinkers, off roaders and hikers on the hill today. If I was a deer I'd be hiding out up there too.
Just a heads up for guys looking at the pic with the bug spray. If you use the bug spray don’t take it to a taxidermist that uses beetles to clean skulls. It will kill their colony.
Congrats on the Buck!! Yeah the deer in North County have so many ticks on them...last year my deer was crawling by the time I skinned it. Never thought to spray it down.
Do you keep the tongue? I've been listening to a meateater podcast on cooking deer tongue and I would be happy to take the tongue off your hand if you aren't going to utilize the meat!
Nice freezer full. 101lbs a lot of meat.
Ticks are bad. Last deer I killed had so many ticks looked like the skin was crawling. I would not carry it.
Make me itch thinking about it.
Salt water killed them all.
Careful with that spray guys, nasty stuff.
hey Steve would you mind doing a little write up with time line on when the deer was shot till he went to the butcher, any special things you did to clean and prep, do you keep the deer cold ?, debone or whole deer ? . thanks in advance.
I have a tick story I’m sure you remember Steve .
I didn’t notice tics until I was doing the Euro minute on mine. One guy brought in a hairless doe, I don’t think it had ticks, he drug her for a couple miles.
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