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WOOT WOOT IT'S ALMOST HALLOWEEN

Sole said

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I got a bucket of chicken...

genghismike said
sounds like a hell of a night.Also, you're getting very useful skills.I was real young when I lived out in the country, so it's been a long time since I've been exposed to such things as hunting and skinning game. Makes me wonder if I'd even remember any of the things I was taught as a kid.

I always loved the idea of living off the land, so hunting and foraging and stuff were always really fun for me, especially since I grew up in a rural forest area. I've kinda fallen away from it though, since life got busy through high school and now college, I was much more competent at it all as a younger child. I was better at a lot of things as a child actually, makes me miss childhood. Don't grow up kids, it's not worth it.

ActRaiserTheReturned said
And no one understands my joke.

Meatballsy

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genghismike said
I'm guessing you guys hit it yourself, right? Please tell me you hit it yourself.-edit-Also, tanned the hide yourself.I need you in my life.

Naw some woman hit it with her little car. My parents were on their way home and they stopped to make sure she was all right, because it was the middle of February and dark. They decided to wait with her for the police to show up, and my mom calls home to let me and my sister know they'd be late and why. Naturally I ask if the deer was still in good shape and if so could we have it. My mom just hands the phone to my dad, who proceeds to consider my request. He explains that he'll have to ask the woman who hit it, since she technically would have first claim to it.

So he goes to ask her if she wants the deer, and this poor lady is just like "No no no no…" and my dad is thinking that she's thinking the only reason they stopped to help her was to get the stupid deer. Anyway, long-story-short the cop gave my dad a permit, he comes home to swap the van for the truck, and my sister and I (in our pajamas) throw on our boots and coats and hop in the truck with him to go get it. When we brought it back and gutted it we made a game of trying to name all the internal organs.

We skinned it the next day, and it's pretty neat that this happened in the winter because the doe had a really thick winter coat, which deer don't have during the hunting season, so I wouldn't have ordinarily had the chance to get a fur like that. It's hanging up in our basement right now. Also only the front shoulder was bloodshot where it was hit, so we got a good amount of meat off it.

WOOT WOOT IT'S ALMOST HALLOWEEN

Cpt Toellner said
Yeah, me and the gf moved into a town house, I think we are the only collage-age people on our block. I'm either doing chainsaw guy (but I usually like doing that at my parent's house, leave a bowl of candy at the front door, when kids grab some and make their way back to the street I come running out of the woods with my chainsaw revving), or I will do my dark-monk costume again.

Makes me wanna trick-or-treat at your house. That's awesome I'd totally pee myself.

I got a bucket of chicken...

genghismike said
You are awesome.

Skinned a road-killed deer, tanned the hide, entered it in the county fair my first year in 4-H and got Grand Champion in the conservation and wildlife category.

Also we made it into a stew and it was delicious.

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Kaga said
I'm dreadfully curious as to how one can look at a writing assignment for Korean grade-schoolers learning English as a 2nd language and think, "Spam game". Like it's one thing to ask people what super-power they would want and defend it, but another to post up what seems to be the exact assignment instructions you would give to these kids, particularly encouraging "simple sentences".Like, is no one else scratching their heads over this?

*has a psychology paper to write*

Hey guys, I've got a game...

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Svenn said
I'd choose water bending over anything. but telekinesis comes close.I WANT TO SPLIT THE RED SEA

Slow down there Moses

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I still hate chicken

I got a bucket of chicken...

Halo said
If you buy a chicken in the supermarket, chances are it is a female chicken. That is fact. Of course you can eat males, it's meat like any other meat - usually as capons after they've been castrated (and therefore develop similarly to females.) But having just looked this up, it appears that female chickens are preferred and are the ones generally sold in supermarkets and such, due to better meat quality (and other, more logistical reasons.)

People castrate chickens?

I got a bucket of chicken...

Butchering birds is just gross though. I've butchered deer, skinned coons, filleted fish. All those were fine but butchering birds is a pain, and the smell is awful.