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    Recycling a Turkey to make it fly again

    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...
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    Building "Old Smokey"

    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...
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    Young Sam turns 12 and bags he first archery deer.

    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...
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    Wild game bacon (deer/elk or ducks/geese)

    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...
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    Smoked Ven Snack sticks with cheese and jalapeno

    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...
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    Robin Hood!

    I try like hell to avaoid a robin hood as ger is so pricey. I NEVER shoot at the same dot on my target but I have so darn many dots, I lost track at 30 yards when the wife and dog interupted me while shooting and paid the price.with a slick Trick tipped arrow.
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    New member checking in from the cheese state

    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.