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Need Help Venison Stroganoff

05 December 2011 - 06:43 PM

I need to find a good recipe for Venison Stroganoff. I have never made a stroganoff and would like to try it with venison. Should I slow cook the venison cubes/strips first to get them tender? I don't want to be chewing on jerky. Any tips would be appreciated.

Home Brew Tarsal Gland Scent

04 October 2011 - 06:11 AM

I found this online and it sounded interesting. Sorry it has a picture on it, I couldn't delete it. I may have to try it if I bag a nice buck this year.

Here's a simple recipe using tarsal glands. The first step is to select the tarsal glands. You can use doe or buck glands depending on what is available and the lure you wish to make. It's a lot easier to find tarsal glands from a buck that are full of rut scent than it is a doe because does are in heat for such a short time.
If I were making a buck tarsal gland lure, I would select glands from a mature buck that are as full of musky, rut smell as possible. To select doe tarsal glands, be sure to take them from a doe in heat. It's easy to tell when a doe is in or is coming into season just from her tarsal glands. If you notice the tarsal glands of most does that you see, they are white. However, as a doe is coming into heat, she will pee down her back legs and onto her tarsal glands. As she does this, the glands become dark and smelly and the doe then leaves her scent signal through out the woods as she travels. As soon as she has been bred, she will lick her tarsal glands clean and white again. If you or a buddy takes a doe with dark tarsal glands, take advantage of your good fortune and make some of your own lure! If you can't find what you want that way, try checking out the deer waiting to be processed at the local butcher. Ask nicely, and they'll likely let you help yourself to a gland or two. Step 1:

As soon as possible after the kill, remove and protect the tarsal glands by freezing them until your ready to start making the lure. Cut through the skin around the tarsal gland in a circle about the size of a silver dollar. Then free the tarsal gland by slicing through the membranes and such below the skin. Do not touch the tarsal glands with your bare hands. Use rubber gloves throughout the process so you do not contaminate your lure with human scent.
Put the tarsal glands in a super clean glass jar and add enough high proof vodka to cover them and seal it up good. It should take 4 to 6 ounces of alcohol for two tarsal glands.

Put the jar in a cool,

dark place and

let them

soak

for at least two months.

When enough time has past, put on

rubber

gloves,

remove the glands and

squeeze out

as

much fluid

as you can

back into the jar.

Now discard the tarsal glands you have sucked as much of the scent out as possible already.

You now have a tarsal gland tincture.
Step 2:

Add an equal amount of glycerin by volume to your

tincture.

The

glycerin

will hold and bind the scent and will

allow

you to

add

other ingredients.

The scent will

improve

as it ages until

Keep your lure cool and dark and the alcohol will preserve it indefinitely.

You can use this lure straight but most lure makers wouldn't consider tarsal gland tincture to be the final product but rather more of an ingredient in a more complex or matrix lure.
Mixing a half ounce of your tarsal gland tincture, a half ounce of a quality buck urine, a pinch of salt (to preserve it) and a teaspoon of tonquin musk.
Other common lure ingredients are:

your favorite doe or buck urine

other gland tinctures - see below

scents like anise, tobacco, vanilla, beaver castor, etc.

Keep it simple, it's best not to go off the deep end and have a dozen or more ingredients. Don't use up your whole batch of tincture on one lure.

Make small batches of an ounce or two. If you're going to add urine to your lure, it's a good idea to throw in a pinch of salt to help preserve it. The salt won't affect the odor.

There are a number of glands on a deer that can be used to make excellent tinctures that you can use on their own or as an ingredient in a lure. For example:

Inter-digital gland: This is a gland from between deer's hooves. It secretes a musky scent that deer use to identify and track each other. One batch of this tincture will probably last you the rest of your life because you use so little of it at once. It is thought that a large amount of this scent is perceived as a warning by deer and will spook them off so, just use a few drops in an ounce of lure. This is a good ingredient to include in a scent you're going to use to make scent trails. To get to this gland you cut off the leg of the deer at its first knuckle. Stand the leg end so the hoof is pointed up.

Put a big,

heavy knife between the two hooves, push down

and split the leg in

two halves. Just above the

hoof, you'll

see

a small

gland with a paste

like

substance in it that you have cut in half. Scrape out

the

paste

from both halves

with a

clean

knife. Don't get any blood or fat or

any

other crap in it. Repeat for all

the legs.

Place the

bits of

paste

in

a super

clean jar and cover with alcohol.

When the mixture has aged for a couple of months in a cool dark place, add an equal amount of glycerin.

Forehead gland: This is a lure you would use on licking branches above scrapes, on scent posts, and rubs. The main ingredient is the dark patch of fur on top of a buck's head. That fur is full of oils and scent and bucks rub it on branches to leave their scent signature behind.

Cut around the

dark patch and skin off the top of the buck's

head. You can just use this

part

or add in

the

pre-

orbital

glands that

are found in the corner of their

eyes and/or the saliva

glands which

lay on

either side

of the

buck's neck

just

below the jaw bone. The pre-

orbital

and saliva glands should be cut

into a few pieces.

Just as with

the other formulas above, be

super clean,

cover the glands with

alcohol and store in a cool

dark

place

for

t

wo or

three

months. When

it's done, take out the glands, squeeze out as much

of the

alcohol as

you can

and

discard

the glands.

Add an equal amount of glycerin and age till next season.

Testicles: This is a good ingredient in lures but it also works well just mixed with tonquin musk. Cut the balls out of the buck's sack and discard the sack.

Cut the balls into a few small pieces, cover with alcohol and store in a cool dark place for two months or so. When they've soaked long enough, pull out and discard the pieces of testicle that remain. Add an equal amount of glycerin.

Here's a simple recipe using tarsal glands. The first step is to select the tarsal glands. You can use doe or buck glands depending on what is available and the lure you wish to make. It's a lot easier to find tarsal glands from a buck that are full of rut scent than it is a doe because does are in heat for such a short time.
If I were making a buck tarsal gland lure, I would select glands from a mature buck that are as full of musky, rut smell as possible. To select doe tarsal glands, be sure to take them from a doe in heat. It's easy to tell when a doe is in or is coming into season just from her tarsal glands. If you notice the tarsal glands of most does that you see, they are white. However, as a doe is coming into heat, she will pee down her back legs and onto her tarsal glands. As she does this, the glands become dark and smelly and the doe then leaves her scent signal through out the woods as she travels. As soon as she has been bred, she will lick her tarsal glands clean and white again. If you or a buddy takes a doe with dark tarsal glands, take advantage of your good fortune and make some of your own lure! If you can't find what you want that way, try checking out the deer waiting to be processed at the local butcher. Ask nicely, and they'll likely let you help yourself to a gland or two. Step 1:

As soon as possible after the kill, remove and protect the tarsal glands by freezing them until your ready to start making the lure. Cut through the skin around the tarsal gland in a circle about the size of a silver dollar. Then free the tarsal gland by slicing through the membranes and such below the skin. Do not touch the tarsal glands with your bare hands. Use rubber gloves throughout the process so you do not contaminate your lure with human scent.
Put the tarsal glands in a super clean glass jar and add enough high proof vodka to cover them and seal it up good. It should take 4 to 6 ounces of alcohol for two tarsal glands.

Put the jar in a cool,

dark place and

let them

soak

for at least two months.

When enough time has past, put on

rubber

gloves,

remove the glands and

squeeze out

as

much fluid

as you can

back into the jar.

Now discard the tarsal glands you have sucked as much of the scent out as possible already.

You now have a tarsal gland tincture.
Step 2:

Add an equal amount of glycerin by volume to your

tincture.

The

glycerin

will hold and bind the scent and will

allow

you to

add

other ingredients.

The scent will

improve

as it ages until

Keep your lure cool and dark and the alcohol will preserve it indefinitely.

You can use this lure straight but most lure makers wouldn't consider tarsal gland tincture to be the final product but rather more of an ingredient in a more complex or matrix lure.
Mixing a half ounce of your tarsal gland tincture, a half ounce of a quality buck urine, a pinch of salt (to preserve it) and a teaspoon of tonquin musk.
Other common lure ingredients are:

your favorite doe or buck urine

other gland tinctures - see below

scents like anise, tobacco, vanilla, beaver castor, etc.

Keep it simple, it's best not to go off the deep end and have a dozen or more ingredients. Don't use up your whole batch of tincture on one lure.

Make small batches of an ounce or two. If you're going to add urine to your lure, it's a good idea to throw in a pinch of salt to help preserve it. The salt won't affect the odor.

There are a number of glands on a deer that can be used to make excellent tinctures that you can use on their own or as an ingredient in a lure. For example:

Inter-digital gland: This is a gland from between deer's hooves. It secretes a musky scent that deer use to identify and track each other. One batch of this tincture will probably last you the rest of your life because you use so little of it at once. It is thought that a large amount of this scent is perceived as a warning by deer and will spook them off so, just use a few drops in an ounce of lure. This is a good ingredient to include in a scent you're going to use to make scent trails. To get to this gland you cut off the leg of the deer at its first knuckle. Stand the leg end so the hoof is pointed up.

Put a big,

heavy knife between the two hooves, push down

and split the leg in

two halves. Just above the

hoof, you'll

see

a small

gland with a paste

like

substance in it that you have cut in half. Scrape out

the

paste

from both halves

with a

clean

knife. Don't get any blood or fat or

any

other crap in it. Repeat for all

the legs.

Place the

bits of

paste

in

a super

clean jar and cover with alcohol.

When the mixture has aged for a couple of months in a cool dark place, add an equal amount of glycerin.

Forehead gland: This is a lure you would use on licking branches above scrapes, on scent posts, and rubs. The main ingredient is the dark patch of fur on top of a buck's head. That fur is full of oils and scent and bucks rub it on branches to leave their scent signature behind.

Cut around the

dark patch and skin off the top of the buck's

head. You can just use this

part

or add in

the

pre-

orbital

glands that

are found in the corner of their

eyes and/or the saliva

glands which

lay on

either side

of the

buck's neck

just

below the jaw bone. The pre-

orbital

and saliva glands should be cut

into a few pieces.

Just as with

the other formulas above, be

super clean,

cover the glands with

alcohol and store in a cool

dark

place

for

t

wo or

three

months. When

it's done, take out the glands, squeeze out as much

of the

alcohol as

you can

and

discard

the glands.

Add an equal amount of glycerin and age till next season.

Testicles: This is a good ingredient in lures but it also works well just mixed with tonquin musk. Cut the balls out of the buck's sack and discard the sack.

Cut the balls into a few small pieces, cover with alcohol and store in a cool dark place for two months or so. When they've soaked long enough, pull out and discard the pieces of testicle that remain. Add an equal amount of glycerin.

Here's a simple recipe using tarsal glands. The first step is to select the tarsal glands. You can use doe or buck glands depending on what is available and the lure you wish to make. It's a lot easier to find tarsal glands from a buck that are full of rut scent than it is a doe because does are in heat for such a short time.
If I were making a buck tarsal gland lure, I would select glands from a mature buck that are as full of musky, rut smell as possible. To select doe tarsal glands, be sure to take them from a doe in heat. It's easy to tell when a doe is in or is coming into season just from her tarsal glands. If you notice the tarsal glands of most does that you see, they are white. However, as a doe is coming into heat, she will pee down her back legs and onto her tarsal glands. As she does this, the glands become dark and smelly and the doe then leaves her scent signal through out the woods as she travels. As soon as she has been bred, she will lick her tarsal glands clean and white again. If you or a buddy takes a doe with dark tarsal glands, take advantage of your good fortune and make some of your own lure! If you can't find what you want that way, try checking out the deer waiting to be processed at the local butcher. Ask nicely, and they'll likely let you help yourself to a gland or two. Step 1:

As soon as possible after the kill, remove and protect the tarsal glands by freezing them until your ready to start making the lure. Cut through the skin around the tarsal gland in a circle about the size of a silver dollar. Then free the tarsal gland by slicing through the membranes and such below the skin. Do not touch the tarsal glands with your bare hands. Use rubber gloves throughout the process so you do not contaminate your lure with human scent.
Put the tarsal glands in a super clean glass jar and add enough high proof vodka to cover them and seal it up good. It should take 4 to 6 ounces of alcohol for two tarsal glands.

Put the jar in a cool,

dark place and

let them

soak

for at least two months.

When enough time has past, put on

rubber

gloves,

remove the glands and

squeeze out

as

much fluid

as you can

back into the jar.

Now discard the tarsal glands you have sucked as much of the scent out as possible already.

You now have a tarsal gland tincture.
Step 2:

Add an equal amount of glycerin by volume to your

tincture.

The

glycerin

will hold and bind the scent and will

allow

you to

add

other ingredients.

The scent will

improve

as it ages until

Keep your lure cool and dark and the alcohol will preserve it indefinitely.

You can use this lure straight but most lure makers wouldn't consider tarsal gland tincture to be the final product but rather more of an ingredient in a more complex or matrix lure.
Mixing a half ounce of your tarsal gland tincture, a half ounce of a quality buck urine, a pinch of salt (to preserve it) and a teaspoon of tonquin musk.
Other common lure ingredients are:

your favorite doe or buck urine

other gland tinctures - see below

scents like anise, tobacco, vanilla, beaver castor, etc.

Keep it simple, it's best not to go off the deep end and have a dozen or more ingredients. Don't use up your whole batch of tincture on one lure.

Make small batches of an ounce or two. If you're going to add urine to your lure, it's a good idea to throw in a pinch of salt to help preserve it. The salt won't affect the odor.

There are a number of glands on a deer that can be used to make excellent tinctures that you can use on their own or as an ingredient in a lure. For example:

Inter-digital gland: This is a gland from between deer's hooves. It secretes a musky scent that deer use to identify and track each other. One batch of this tincture will probably last you the rest of your life because you use so little of it at once. It is thought that a large amount of this scent is perceived as a warning by deer and will spook them off so, just use a few drops in an ounce of lure. This is a good ingredient to include in a scent you're going to use to make scent trails. To get to this gland you cut off the leg of the deer at its first knuckle. Stand the leg end so the hoof is pointed up.

Put a big,

heavy knife between the two hooves, push down

and split the leg in

two halves. Just above the

hoof, you'll

see

a small

gland with a paste

like

substance in it that you have cut in half. Scrape out

the

paste

from both halves

with a

clean

knife. Don't get any blood or fat or

any

other crap in it. Repeat for all

the legs.

Place the

bits of

paste

in

a super

clean jar and cover with alcohol.

When the mixture has aged for a couple of months in a cool dark place, add an equal amount of glycerin.

Forehead gland: This is a lure you would use on licking branches above scrapes, on scent posts, and rubs. The main ingredient is the dark patch of fur on top of a buck's head. That fur is full of oils and scent and bucks rub it on branches to leave their scent signature behind.

Cut around the

dark patch and skin off the top of the buck's

head. You can just use this

part

or add in

the

pre-

orbital

glands that

are found in the corner of their

eyes and/or the saliva

glands which

lay on

either side

of the

buck's neck

just

below the jaw bone. The pre-

orbital

and saliva glands should be cut

into a few pieces.

Just as with

the other formulas above, be

super clean,

cover the glands with

alcohol and store in a cool

dark

place

for

t

wo or

three

months. When

it's done, take out the glands, squeeze out as much

of the

alcohol as

you can

and

discard

the glands.

Add an equal amount of glycerin and age till next season.

Testicles: This is a good ingredient in lures but it also works well just mixed with tonquin musk. Cut the balls out of the buck's sack and discard the sack.

Cut the balls into a few small pieces, cover with alcohol and store in a cool dark place for two months or so. When they've soaked long enough, pull out and discard the pieces of testicle that remain. Add an equal amount of glycerin.

As soon as possible after the kill, remove and protect the tarsal glands by freezing them until your ready to start making the lure. Cut through the skin around the tarsal gland in a circle about the size of a silver dollar. Then free the tarsal gland by slicing through the membranes and such below the skin. Do not touch the tarsal glands with your bare hands. Use rubber gloves throughout the process so you do not contaminate your lure with human scent.
Put the tarsal glands in a super clean glass jar and add enough high proof vodka to cover them and seal it up good. It should take 4 to 6 ounces of alcohol for two tarsal glands.

Put the jar in a cool,

dark place and

let them

soak

for at least two months.

When enough time has past, put on

rubber

gloves,

remove the glands and

squeeze out

as

much fluid

as you can

back into the jar.

Now discard the tarsal glands you have sucked as much of the scent out as possible already.

You now have a tarsal gland tincture.
Step 2:

Add an equal amount of glycerin by volume to your

tincture.

The

glycerin

will hold and bind the scent and will

allow

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You can use this lure straight but most lure makers wouldn't consider tarsal gland tincture to be the final product but rather more of an ingredient in a more complex or matrix lure.
Mixing a half ounce of your tarsal gland tincture, a half ounce of a quality buck urine, a pinch of salt (to preserve it) and a teaspoon of tonquin musk.
Other common lure ingredients are:

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Bow hunting prayer

01 October 2011 - 04:32 AM

0 Lord, I am a hunter
And life I seek to take
But let me not attempt the shot
Beyond my skill to make
For Lord they are your creatures
Given for our use
But each one falls within your sight
They're not for our abuse
And when I let loose my arrow
Please guide it swift and true
Or let it miss completely, Lord
That pain be not undue
A clean kill or no kill, Lord
Such is my heart's desire
Give me the skill to make it so
Or let me hold my fire
And when my time upon this earth
The days they are fulfilled
Grant that I may die at least
As clean as those I killed

Louisiana game warden killed

30 September 2011 - 10:59 PM

My link

Louisiana game warden murdered this morning.

What is this world coming to? My prayers go out to his family. This mans job was to protect and serve. He and all other game wardens are there to protect and preserve our wildlife and our land. What they do on a day to day basis allows us to go out and enjoy our land. This man had a wife and 3 children. What kind of low life would take away a husband, a father, a brother and a son because he didn't want to get a ticket or go to prison?? I hope they catch this guy.

Anything ever spooked you in the woods?

30 September 2011 - 02:38 AM

I hear stories of chubacabra and big foot. I even heard stories of demon like figures but I haven't had any of those creatures in my site. About the scariest thing that has happened to me in the woods happened last year. I am sitting in my 4x4 box stand that stood right on the side of a tree line over looking a field of cut over. It was a cold morning and the sun hadn't lifted over the horizan yet. I could hear the rabbits and the coons stiring in the woods around me. I was happy. Then all of the sudden there is a loud crash on the tin roof of my blind that scared the poop out of me! Now this wasn't an acorn or a pine cone falling on the top of the roof. This was something big and I couldn't for the life of me figure out what just happened. Ignoring scaring the deer away, I turned on my flashlight and began to investigate when all of the sudden I came face to face with one of the biggest coons I have ever seen! Talk about jump out of my skin!! I had a tree that was no more than 3 feet away from my stand and that coon had jumped or fell out of the tree and onto my roof. It then jumped back onto the tree and when I flashed the light on him he froze... And I did too! After a few seconds (it seemed like an hour) he high tailed it out of there leaving my heart racing like Secretariat!
One other instance in the same stand I was watching a sparrow that was on that same tree. It was 4-5 feet from my stand sitting on a small branch. I guess I was camoflaged up good because that little sucker flew right into my stand! You wanna see something funny???? You should have seen me jumping, swatting, cussing and carrying on until that bird finally flew out of the window. Needless to say; I didn't kill anything on either one of those days... No chubacabra, no bigfoot but those coons and birds really had my heart racing!!

Anything spooky or scarey happened to you?

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