The official 2025 Wyoming elk hunt for Dave N thread.
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Wildabeest
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Good luck! Hopefully we don’t have to change the title to “Dave N’s WY Squirrel Hunt”
You got any? Never mind, I hate skinning tree rats.Good luck! Hopefully we don’t have to change the title to “Dave N’s WY Squirrel Hunt”
Wildabeest
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It was a staple at my house growing up in Appalachia. Gave it up after leaving home until @BrentD cooked some up at grouse camp a few years ago. He did it right!
BrentD
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Yo! Dave! Have you no friends from Missouri? I swear those people are born skinning squirrel, and they are worth the effort for sure. I have always suffered the skinning because nothing is better, but when a grad student skinned 5 before I had one gutted, I knew I had to shut up and watch. Recently, I found an improvement on the basic "Step on the Tail Technique", which makes it even easier. I cannot find the video that I learned from, but there are probably 100 squirrel skinning with a "squirrel hanger" videos on Youtube right now. Once you have this down, you will wonder how you managed all these years and never thought of it yourself.
Yeah, that's alright. I've eaten a few but they aren't very high on my list of kill 'em and eat 'em. It's actually been probably 20 years. My youngest daughter made her first kill on one in the backyard and we cleaned and cooked it together.
Wildabeest
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How was the rabbit?
Pretty darn good! I'll get one every now and then. I wanted to use my grandfather's Model 12 as kind of a way to connect. No telling how many he shot with it. Now I can hang it up with my other guns that I display.How was the rabbit?
Elliptical is now a clothes hanger! 
Just for a little while. Had to do the driving Miss Daisy thing and take my father to Minnesota to the Mayo Clinic for a test. Got here yesterday and hope it doesn't take too long before we can go home. A buddy has his Cat retirement party on Friday and my daughter's baby shower is Sunday. I WILL be home for that no matter what. She's counting on me! It's plenty cold here, too. 13 below this morning, 18 below tonight, and today's high supposed to be 5 below. That's like Alaska without the Alaska part! So for now I'm just hanging around wasting time at the hospital.
The wind at home just hasn't been very good for shooting for a while now. If I knew where I was with the handloads I could just get in some practice for the winds. What little snow we got is gone now.
Had a nice chat with @Wildabeest the other night. Sounds like things are going well with his recovery and he wants to get up and about pretty soon. Guess he's getting the cast switched out to a walking cast. I asked him if his foot was itchy, hopefully it isn't all he thinks about now!
That's pretty much all of an update I've got for now. Less than 9 months to go!
Just for a little while. Had to do the driving Miss Daisy thing and take my father to Minnesota to the Mayo Clinic for a test. Got here yesterday and hope it doesn't take too long before we can go home. A buddy has his Cat retirement party on Friday and my daughter's baby shower is Sunday. I WILL be home for that no matter what. She's counting on me! It's plenty cold here, too. 13 below this morning, 18 below tonight, and today's high supposed to be 5 below. That's like Alaska without the Alaska part! So for now I'm just hanging around wasting time at the hospital. The wind at home just hasn't been very good for shooting for a while now. If I knew where I was with the handloads I could just get in some practice for the winds. What little snow we got is gone now.
Had a nice chat with @Wildabeest the other night. Sounds like things are going well with his recovery and he wants to get up and about pretty soon. Guess he's getting the cast switched out to a walking cast. I asked him if his foot was itchy, hopefully it isn't all he thinks about now!
That's pretty much all of an update I've got for now. Less than 9 months to go!
Bowmannate2000
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Welcome to Minnesota!Elliptical is now a clothes hanger!
The wind at home just hasn't been very good for shooting for a while now. If I knew where I was with the handloads I could just get in some practice for the winds. What little snow we got is gone now.
Had a nice chat with @Wildabeest the other night. Sounds like things are going well with his recovery and he wants to get up and about pretty soon. Guess he's getting the cast switched out to a walking cast. I asked him if his foot was itchy, hopefully it isn't all he thinks about now!
That's pretty much all of an update I've got for now. Less than 9 months to go!
Yeah, thanks. Lucky me!
