Making meat

One of my neighbors shot a deer this morning. It ran on to our property.

He called me on the phone. We tracked into tall grass when the blood ran out.

I started walking the perimeter fence to look for sign that it may have crossed the meadow. 

The hunter started an ascending grid search pattern starting at the last blood.

He found the deer.

A few minutes later he was able to drive his tractor on to our property and collect it. He had a boom on the front of his tractor which he used to elevate it for tagging and then to drive off of the property.

He made a great shot. He was in a tree stand and the deer was quartering away. He hit it high on the right side about where the diaphragm joined the ribcage. The arrow angled down and across the lungs and exited low near the front of the chest.

It may have run 150 yards after he hit it. 

Bonus images

"Walnut Hill" pear is a variety selected by Louis Pittman. It is notable for not dropping its fruit as soon as it ripens. As soft-mast gets scarce later in the season, this tree turns into a wild-life magnet.

I grafted this tree twice. The first time I grafted it I mixed up my bud-sticks and grafted it to something I did not want. I didn't learn of my mistake until four years later when it fruited out. Dr. Pittman was gracious enough to send me another scion shortly after I identified my mistake.

Lehman's Delight. It had more fruit on it but the coons and the possum have been picking it over.

 

I am freezing these for ease-of-transport

I met a very nice lady who uses persimmons to make persimmon custard. Who knew? These fruit are ripe to the "jelly" stage.