Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

How far do you travel to go hunting? I guess I am lucky and Hunt our training areas on post and since it is federal land my state tag does not count and I can harvest 3 does a day but 1 buck a year. And I usually drive about 10 minutes to my hunting spot.

 

Nice! i remember looking into that in South Carolina and Washington on the bases.

I go back home to Nebraska. ~1000 miles. I go back there to hunt with my dad. Non-resident tags are somewhat expensive, close to $400 for tag, license, and stamp. All in all still cheaper than anything close to here that is decent. Leases here are stupid expensive for small sage brush deer.

 

I bet Nebraska has some good sized deer as well. But hunting is about the experience as well and hunting with family is always a plus.

 

Lol. I did the same thing, and got a similar number. It’s really expensive, but worth the effort and expense to spend time with family and friends.

My boss was arguing that it was cheaper to hunt than buy, then he did the calculations. He has five kids, and one income as a result. He tries to harvest as many deer as possible every year. When he got done addiding it all up, he was at like $17 a pound. He said, don’t tell my wife, when he discovered this.

 

That they do. big bodied. Fills a freezer up nicely. and the family part is the main reason I go back.

At my last job we used to do Friday pot lucks. Only 4 of us on nights. I'd bring venison for burgers occasionally and and one guy was in charge of buns, cheese and chips. he always brought some off brand bread and cheese that totaled 30 cents or some super cheap amount. it wasn't even real food!? haha. he would complain and say he had to bring more than others so that's why he bought cheap stuff. i told him I was bringing over $30 in venison... some people.

I really wish a had a pic of the cheese. the one and only time he brought one brand, from walgreens I believe, when we set the cheese on the meat, it didn't melt, it curled up into a cup shape we threw that shit away

 

Used to drive half way across the Country so my son could hunt deer with his Grandfather and I during Youth Deer season. Don't want to know how much the cost per pound was. With grouse and pheasants really don't want to know how much it cost either, per oz. LOL.

Corn fed deer. Big deer. At one time nothing was more important than deer hunting. Had hunting licenses in 5 States one year back East. Year before that shot a Blacktail in Washington State, my first one still have the rack and tag around here someplace. Have always hunted deer where ever I was stationed.

Now I don't want to drag the damn things out of the woods and good chance I'd have a heart attack if I did. Pope and Young HQ and museum is only a few miles from my house here for good reason. I can sit on the deck and shoot them with the camera and no fuss no mess.



20 yard chip shot from the deck with the bow. Have thought about cutting some shooting lanes more than once. Never thought I'd say it but nah too much like work.

 

The link in my signature to the "brisket guide" post has two rubs in it - both from Adkins. It is their Western BBQ Rub and their Pork & Chicken Rub layered on brisket. I've cooked a couple hundred briskets using that combo. It's quite good, though a little more complex than good 'ol Salt & Pepper.

Hopefully I'll have another recommendation in a couple of months.

 

Ya hurry up or let me try it too lol

 

One of my good friends back in MI goes every chance he can get. Him and a couple friends have a place up there and I think last year between the 3 of them he said they got 8 of them. They do all of their own processing and can some of the meat for stews and stuff. I had a bunch of that but used the last of it just before we moved back to FL. He is ex special forces and loves playing out in the woods. When him and I used to hunt tree rats together the standing deal was whoever came back with the least amount of tree rats for the amount of ammo used had to pay for lunch/dinner. Needless to say I always ended up paying. Couple time bastage came back with 3 more tree rats than rounds he had used.

 

Old people should not have big freezers... what should I do with this nearly year old pork belly?

Random internet search found this : http://www.pitfacedbbq.com/belly2.html Don't got no PF rub, will have to improvise. And so I shall.
@bvbull200

 

Ha ha...That's awesome. We made the list with a Google search?!?!?!

 

Smoke it up of course!

 

These are getting addictive.

I figured out why this is so much better than the last time I did pork. I trimmed the fat cap to within an inch of its life. I mean I got crazy with the knife.

Used PF Spicy. Should have used a lot more though. It's delicious.

This made the finished product a hell of a lot less greasy than PP often is. While shredding I even took the big hunks of fat out. This is why the dogs love me.

 

You knucklehead, I clicked your sig.

 

So when should you use butcher paper vs vac seal vs ziplock?
Also, I assume waxed paper could do the same job?

 

Misplaced Nebraskan

 

you should be holding that knife by the blade! Test IT!

but definitely noted...