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I finished the long process of making pork bacon (non belly). I will attempt to explain the 2 week process here. Bacon comes from the pork belly but can be made from any part of the pig. Using shoulders gives me a less fatty bacon with more lean meat to enjoy. I bought a 60 pound box of pork...

This is the process I use to make the broadheads that I hunt with when using all trad gear. I use 125 grain field points and reshape them to remove the shoulders. this step may not be necessary buy It looks nice. the blades are cut from a .039 thick bandsaw blade. the jig for slotting the...

While I enjoy compound bows and modern bowhunting, my first love is primitive bowhunting. Im a DIY'r and would rather make all my own gear than purchase it. I think this way of going about bowhunting is seeing a resurgence and for that I am glad. Sadly there are not a lot of mentors and fear of...

In another thread I mentioned making smoked items in my homemade smoker. Another poster asked about the details of that smoker so here goes. My last homemade smoker lasted 15 years. It was a converted chest freezer I tipped on its side and it worked great for hot smoking but eventually rusted...

Sam is born and raised into a outdoor family of hunters and fishermen. In WI you can't hunt until age 10 so to bide her time, she tagged along on hunts but couldn't wait to become a bowhunter like her brothers and parents and uncles and grandparents so was an observer and she fished. She...

Bacon is the candy of meats. Who doesn't love bacon? I received a variety of products to sample from Frisco spices Included was the spices to make ground and reshaped bacon from ground meat so Im making a couple batches of the hickory bacon using venison and another batch with geese. Each...

I do a lot of custom butchering and sausage making for family and friends. I buit a smoker capable of holding 150 Lb batches and like most DIY game processors Im always looking for the next best recipe or mix. Because4 I have access to a lot of wild game meats Im always exploring pre-packaged...

Enjoyed reading the forum enough to join. Ive been bowhunting for about 40 years now (Deer, Bear, turkey, small game, etc) Looking foward to interacting with fellow bowhunters. I hunt with both homemade Traditional gear s well as modern gear.