First Deer of the Season

Jamie finally got his first deer of the season during muzzle loader.

 

Jamie & his deer

 

Jamie had taken some time off of work for hunting. He had gone out every morning and evening for 4 days straight.  Finally he got this beautiful buck on the 5th morning.

 

There is an interesting story that goes along with this deer.  We had seen him numerous times on the trail camera pictures and had named him Scar.  He had a very long scar on the side of his body, probably from fighting with another buck.  Archery is the first type of hunting you can do when deer season opens.  Jamie actually shot this very deer with his bow.  The deer had run away and was never found.  Jamie was feeling awful thinking he had wounded a deer and it was just going to lie down somewhere and die.  Thankfully a few weeks later we saw him again on the trail camera doing just fine.  Scar ended up showing up at the right time for Jamie to shoot him during muzzle loader.

 

Jamie's deer -9 point

 

Jamie with Scar

 

This deer came just at the right time.  We had finished our last package of venison in the freezer just a few weeks ago.

 

Jamie got the deer skinned out and it hung for a few days for the meat to age.  Then he went to work cutting it up.

 

We ended up with 12 packages of deer steaks.  Each package will feed us for one meal.

 

Venison Steaks

 

With the rest of the deer meat, Hailey and Jamie ground it into burger.

 

 Hailey grinding venison meat

 

We ended up with 13 1lb packages of ground venison.

 

Ground Venison burger

 

 Jamie liked this deer so much he decided to mount it.  Jamie decided he wanted to try to do an European mount himself.  He researched how to do it quite a bit and got it done.  It came out great.

 

European Mount that Jamie did himself.

 

It's nice to have some venison in the freezer now but I'm still hoping that Jamie will get a few more deer this season for our family.