Inexpensive Meat Supply

[mishalak]

Yesterday I was practicing with a good old 7x57mm rifle. If I still don't have a job in a few weeks and my father and I get lucky in the drawing we'll be headed out to find a big incautious elk. We might try down south somewhere in the San Juans. And even if the plan does not come to fruition it was good to have a refresher in basic gun handling.

Comments

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Hey, good luck! It's been ages since I last hunted (deer), and I'd certainly want to go through a bit of a refresher course (and thoroughly clean and check my rifle, which is locked up at my grandfather's house because I have no user for it here in the Bay Area) before using any of the weapons again.

My family have always been big on hunting. (Mind you, when my grandfather was growing up in the Ozarks, it wasn't a hobby -- it was subsistence!) When I was growing up, I remember expeditions where a big gang of my cousins, uncles, aunts, etc. were camped for many days in the Coast Range of California hunting deer. When I was older, my cousins would head to the Rockies and hunt elk, exchanging some of the meat they brought back for fresh produce from my grandparents' extensive garden. I ate well growing up, although I didn't realize how good I had it until I got older.

[bureinato.livejournal.com]

Elk = yum
cleaning elk = someone else thanks.