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Post by scrub-buster on Jan 7, 2024 14:47:51 GMT -5
I changed the water today. This is the second time doing that. It's still pulling out a lot of grease from the bone. You can see globs of it floating on the surface. The skulls are looking good. I should have got a picture of them. I switched to dawn soap this time. I'll see how it does compared to the Ammonia.
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Post by scrub-buster on Jan 7, 2024 14:44:43 GMT -5
Is this cheaper than cooking? Just wondering because this sounds like an interesting method. It depends on what you have to buy for a cooking set up. Now that I have everything my only costs will be electricity.
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Post by scrub-buster on Jan 7, 2024 10:00:17 GMT -5
I bet that smells fabulous. Yea I hope that isn't indoors. My maceration set up is outside at our barn. It's far away from any houses. My degreasing set up is in the garage and doesn't smell.
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Post by scrub-buster on Jan 6, 2024 13:50:21 GMT -5
Forecast said we would get 1-3" of snow by noon today. I ordered a snow tube for the kids and gassed up the UTV to pull them through the fields. All we got was light rain.
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Post by scrub-buster on Jan 5, 2024 23:25:51 GMT -5
I bet that smells fabulous. The maceration process does create a unique odor. It didn't bother me though. I've worked at a sewer plant for over 20 years. I can handle just about any smell.
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Post by scrub-buster on Jan 5, 2024 13:12:16 GMT -5
It will take several weeks of degreasing to get them ready for whitening.
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Post by scrub-buster on Jan 5, 2024 13:11:24 GMT -5
Looks good but I wouldn't hardly call that zero effort. Quite a bit of effort went into getting set up and coming up with the components to do that, plus figuring it out. The cost was around $50 for the supplies. There shouldn't be any more costs besides electricity, bromelain capsules, and bulbs if they burn out. The work involved wasn't much, bringing home free chest freezers, drilling a few holes and mounting the light fixtures. Going forward the only work will be moving a few buckets of water each year. When I was cooking skulls I'd have to watch them close to make sure the temperature was just below a boil, dip out oil from the water, pressure wash the skulls, and then hand clean the meat off of them. It was pretty time consuming. And a decent amount of work. The older I get the more I realize the value of my time.
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Post by scrub-buster on Jan 5, 2024 10:26:23 GMT -5
My stepson asked me to make some deer jerky from his buck. I wrote "possum jerky" on the bags before I gave it to him and his sister. She had already been eating some as it was getting done. For a few minutes she really thought she had been eating possum.
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Post by scrub-buster on Jan 5, 2024 10:20:30 GMT -5
I switched to maceration instead of cooking skulls this year. I liked that method much better. Basically zero time and effort involved. I kept them in a chest freezer heated to 100⁰ with a thermostat and a ceramic heat bulb. I put 4 capsules of bromelain in each bucket of water. One week later the skulls were perfectly clean after hosing them off. Now I have them degeasing at 115-120⁰ with Ammonia. I'll alternate with Dawn soap every water change. I could tell a difference between the macerated skulls and some that I cooked last year. The macerated skulls were cleaner and already looked whiter. Cooking them puts grease deeper into the bone. The way I'm doing them this year will take longer, but it's less physical work. The end result will be much better. These pictures are after maceration and before I started degreasing. The last picture is my degreasing set up.
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Post by scrub-buster on Jan 1, 2024 8:04:55 GMT -5
The Wally World Tasco's are pretty good cameras. I have six of them that are at least three years old that still work, but I hate to say it the 3 cell cameras I have bought have made the Tasco cameras, cams that will not see much use anymore. It sure is nice getting picts sent to your phone My Tasco lasted 2 or 3 years but 2 out of every 3 pictures were darker than they should have been. It was consistent, every 1st picture was good then 2 dark pictures.
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Post by scrub-buster on Dec 31, 2023 20:57:16 GMT -5
I got a bass pro gift card for Christmas. We went to a store yesterday to look for a new trail camera. Almost every model on display was a cell camera. I'd say 75% or more. Is that the direction they are all going? I don't have cell service at our house or property. I wanted a Browning since that's what I currently have but they were sold out of the one in my price range. I settled on a small Moultrie. I put it out today. I had a Moultrie several years ago and it was pretty good. Hopefully this one is too. I like that it only uses 4 batteries. It's replacing a Walmart Tasco. I'm sure it will be an upgrade.
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Post by scrub-buster on Dec 29, 2023 17:58:56 GMT -5
I'm also a short fat guy with stubby legs. I've never found bibs that fit. I have my mom shorten the legs of mine.
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Post by scrub-buster on Dec 27, 2023 13:19:30 GMT -5
I finished the podcast. It seemed like he sure was enjoying the attention he was getting. He talked about a C.O. questioning him towards the end. If I had to guess, I think he brought the deer back to his sisters property and staged the kill scene. He mentioned that he already had a lawyer hired but that was just to handle all the people wanting to buy it.
I couldn't imagine being the guy that was trying to kill that buck legally and this low life sneaks in and poaches it. I hope the fines are hefty, but it sounds like this guy is probably living off of the tax payers already. I don't know how they will collect them.
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Post by scrub-buster on Dec 27, 2023 6:27:14 GMT -5
I've made it through the first hour of the podcast so far. Its all about his families housing difficulties and why he doesn't have a job. He only made $4000 last year but somehow bought a $3000 compound only to sell it later for $500. One thing I noticed was when he was talking about his 150" 8 point from last season. At first his buddy found the matched set of sheds from it and gave them to him. The second time it came up, he found one side and his buddy found the other.
I don't feel sorry for this guy one bit. He made the decision to poach this deer. Then he posts it all over social media and does a 3 hour podcast about it. I have a feeling every time he told the story it was a little different version.
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Ohio Buck
Dec 26, 2023 16:15:32 GMT -5
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Post by scrub-buster on Dec 26, 2023 16:15:32 GMT -5
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Ohio Buck
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Post by scrub-buster on Dec 26, 2023 16:14:21 GMT -5
He was on a podcast and told the story about how he killed it. I'll be listening to that at work tomorrow. I've read where some of his facts didn't add up during the interview.
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Post by scrub-buster on Dec 26, 2023 13:38:40 GMT -5
Interesting tidbit I read about his story was he had said he had shot buck the evening before, but waited and went back next morning with buddy to recover at 10:30 a.m.. yet all his field pictures are at night.. OOPPSS.. Details, details. Yeah many was questioning that a month ago along with his lack of camera pics…. Glad I wasn’t the Guy who paid 30k for a poached Deer! Same guy who owned the rack that my dad used to own as sheds
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Post by scrub-buster on Dec 23, 2023 14:03:15 GMT -5
Happy Festivus everyone
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Post by scrub-buster on Dec 21, 2023 19:18:37 GMT -5
I wish we had a rural king close by. I think the nearest one is 1.5-2 hours away
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Post by scrub-buster on Dec 21, 2023 16:10:14 GMT -5
My biggest fear is losing loved ones. I'm not worried about anything that will happen to me along the way. It's part of aging. The thought of losing any of them worries me so much.
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