Yum tasty. .. jerky, steaks, stew alll good eating.
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Yum tasty. .. jerky, steaks, stew alll good eating.
You don't need any firearms, just call the Boulder PD, they will take it down for you...............
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Just drive at it with your headlights on and the horn blowing at around midnight, hard to miss.
Really though, I use a 30-06 for anything bigger than coyote and smaller than bull elk.
Ok, well, I'm looking at 20 odd 6's right now. This is central Colorado, not alot of sage, (thanks for the tip) and yea, graze next to and around the cows. About the private property, it all blends in, no one would know, not even sure how to find the 'owners'. There is no one out there for miles around. But sometimes they are right in the backyard on Fed land. I just don't want to spook them off that territory if they go through there. It seems to be one of the major throughways for one of the herds.
So no one cans antelope meat? (Or deer, elk??)
It's coming right for us!Originally Posted by SideShow Bob
Generally just freezer bag it, get as much air out as you can, and freeze it.
My friend shot 2 two years ago, and based on the comments I had heard about the taste and all I was leery. However, they are damn fine meat. He hunted in the SE section of the state so no sage.
They are easy to process, I helped him. I read the post about the scent glands and that could be good advice. They are not big, almost look like a dog when you have them in the refrigerator. Butchering all animals is about the same, primal cuts, backstraps, tenderloins and then the leg roasts or grind.
Search online and you can find meat charts for game, like the butchers used to have in the stores. I use the beef ones as a guide. Freeze the steaks. We ground up the roasts and made summer sausage. Sonnn!!!! that is about the finest summer sausage i have ever had, outside of game sausage, I don't eat summer sausage. The meat has a slightly sweet taste to it, with some horseradish and mustard damn fine.
The steaks are good too. Regarding the goat comments, goat is often consumed in other countries, try tacos. We did not process it that way.
For rifle as this has been a recent topic of our conversation, you probably cannot beat a 270. The bullet weights and construction are better than the 25s and smaller. I checked the ballistics for say a 7-08 and the 270 shoots a few hundred feet per second faster. Use bullets about 110gr-120gr, Barnes makes some this size. The smaller bullets, 95gr are designed more for varmit hunting and the heaver bullets are for game hunting. You may have to handload as when I looked online for quick comparisons it was hard to find factor loads for 270s and up with light bullets: the smallest factory 270 loads are typically 130s. Good luck.
As a funny story, my friend said they were hunting and looking over a hill toward a herd, the herd spooked and ran toward them, so they shot one at less than 50 yards charging them. I thought it would have been a great story to shot one with a 44 mag.
Rifle antelope pretty much has to be applied for on a draw tag, unless you an find private land in an area with private land only tags. I recall that rifle antelope in the NW section of the state takes several preference points, more than 6, so start boning up on the regs. I hear ranchers hate the things so if you do some leg work you may be able to get permission to hunt.
The idea that no one would notice is an illusion. All over Colorado, property owners are paying more attention than you would believe. And the Division and local sheriff's know who owns what.
Hunting on private land without permission is a 20 pt infraction, which means automatic suspension of hunting priviledges.
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All the ones my buddies and I killed this year are going into sausage, but they've been sage fed. I'd like to try to rescue a backstrop or loin before the grinding and curry it. Curried goat was pretty tasty in India.
+1, out of respect for the landowner and the sport do not go trespassing for sake of an antelope. There are available GPS programs with county platte info that you can buy and will show you who owns what. Otherwise just knock on some doors and someone will get you squared away.
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