I think I did come across one of his videos, and that may have been what steered me toward the kettle. I can't justify spending a bunch of money on a fancy smoker right now, but with a little patience I found the Weber for a minimal investment.
I finally got fed up with my POS masterbuilt smoker, it's in the pile destined for the scrap yard. I could never get it to work worth a damn, and no amount of modifications to it seemed to help much. So I'm going basic. Picked up a nearly new Weber Kettle for $30 and I'm gonna go oldschool for...
Please try to stay out of their winter range if you can. The mylar herd numbers are tenuous at best, they don't need you out there harassing them as they try to survive the winter.
Well that's a wrap for upland season for Franklin. We took a 2am trip to the emergency vet on Sunday. Turns out he had, unbeknownst to us, ingested not one, but TWO socks and they were bunched up in his stomach trying to move into his small intestine. He's recovering well from surgery, the...
He doesn't have the shaggy eyebrows of most griffs, but his beard is pretty epic.
We were away for a week on vacation, so I took him out for a long morning hunt yesterday. He racked up 19 miles and slept well last night.
All that hiking and about $30 worth of shells and I only managed to...
https://honest-food.net/pheasant-piccata/
I tried this one for the wife, since I was unsure how she would like the taste of wild pheasant. She loved it. Works well with chicken breast, too.
Hard to go wrong with Hank Shaw recipes, I think.
This boyo is figuring things out quickly. He's having a heyday learning to hold up and point wild quail. I really need to learn how to shoot, I am terrible.
Unfortunately he's picked up the bad habit of stealing birds from the other dog when she retrieves them, which has resulted in a couple...