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High country elk in September!
Pat B:
I will definately have my camera with me.
Kenneth, I'm not a basket case yet! :D I will carry my share. Going in is the easy part! :D I had no trouble getting around out there either. I got up and down those hills pretty well. I was rather pleased at how well I did...until I sprained my foot! ::) ;D I don't have the stamina I did back in '06 but I can still cut the mustard. ;)
Joe, it's already a successful hunt! I get to go!!! ;) Everything else is gravy.
This weekend Kenneth and Kathie(his wife) rode in the area we will be hunting on horseback just to check it out. Preliminary reports are positive. 8)
Keenan tell me about black pepper for hornets. I've used it on deer carcuses to keep the flies off. With a sinsetivity to stinging insects and alergic to paper wasp stings I'm always interested in anything to deter them.
hawkbow:
september 2 should be awesome brother. great time for calling mature bulls , before they get cowed up... best of luck to you brother i cant wait to see the harvest pics and pics of the bloodied shafts. Happy hunting Hawk a/ho
Pat B:
Thanks Mike. I'll take your medicine with me on the hunt! ;)
Keenan:
Pat, if the hornets are around the black pepper really helps. You'll need about three large cans of pepper to do an elk but alt least one will help. I always do the gutless skin and quarter method. Just have your helper sprinkle pepper right on the meat as the skin comes off. You always peel the outer casing off your meet when trimming up so pepper doesn't effect the meat.
Up here I have seen the yellow jackets eat right through the bags to get to the meat if you don't have it peppered. Thats when I started making my bags from better material and using pepper. ;)
If you don't know the gutless method just give me a call and I'll walk you through it. It's by far the best way for back country packing, very easy to bone out while keeping the meat clean.
Little John:
Pat, you know I would never worry about you pullling your share and a bit more, but we will still try to take it as easy on our selves as we can even tho we are far from basket cases.
Keenan, we will for shure use the pepper on the meat but I think Pat thought that the pepper would protect the hunter from an angry swarm of hornets, another huntingg buddie once got into a nest of them with a horse and it wasn't pretty for my buddie or the horse.
Joe, too bad you live so far away it would be an honor to have you in our camp any time. I bet good medicine travels with you.
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