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chamookman:
Nice looking Country ! Love the Big Schroom  (lol)!  (=) Bob.

bjrogg:
Every year I get gifted several deer. My family loves venison. We don’t waste any of it. We process it into tasty treats.

I usually cut out the blackstraps and loins. Make some jerky and the rest gets cut up into small enough chunks to grind. Then I vacuum pack it into large bags and put the grind meat in my freezer until season is over.

This week I got my grinder going. We had a little over 70 lbs of venison and about 33 lbs of pork shoulder to grind. First we ground the pork in one tub and then the venison into another tub.

We mixed three 26 lb batches of summer sausage and stuffed them in casings. Had 19 big sticks and 15 smaller ones. All ready for smokers.

There was about 13 lbs of venison and 9 lbs of pork left. Not enough for a batch of summer sausage. I mixed it up and stuffed it into burger wrappers. This really helps with clean up. The meat binder in the summer sausage is very sticky and hard to clean up. Running some meat through mixer and stuffer really helps clean up. The meat binder clings to the clean meat. And my wife uses a lot of burger for her dishes.

Two days later and everything is smoked.

I will give a few sticks to those who gifted me the deer. That insures more venison next year.

Bjrogg

bjrogg:
I put in some overtime watching my smokers. I decided to make some shavings. Hop Hornbeam. I almost forgot how hard this stuff gets. Also have to admit I’m a little out of shape. I did get it reduced closer to bow dimensions.

Then it had a nasty propeller twist so I put it on my caul. Gave it a good heat treatment at the same time.

Bjrogg

bjrogg:
Got long string on and started tillering. Pulling to 55 lbs. still a long way to go.

Bjrogg

chamookman:
That HornBeam make a fine Bow, but Yeah, it's a Booger to work. Still have a Splitting Maul that I made a Iron Wood handle for, bout 25yrs ago !  (=) Bob.

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