First Elk

[SJB358]

That's awesome! If you go on YouTube and search Steve Rinella cooking a coyote, it was entertaining to say the least! the only way I'd cook one up if it meant the difference between eating or starving.

I saw that vid. Doesn't particularly entice me, though he contended that it wasn't too bad. 'Course, what did we expect he would say? :mrgreen:

We made some bobcat and coyote jerkey a few years back. Wasn't too bad.

 

[Wis65x55]

SJB358,
I will let you eat all of the bobcat and coyote jerky while I get fat and sassy on venison jerky and venison sausage.
Keith

 

[wildgene]

...generally speaking, by the time I'm convinced that I'd hunt w/ someone, I usually pretty sure I can trust him w/ a 'loaner'. By a quirk of fate 'everyone' ended up shooting their elk w/ mt Tikka .300 WSM last year. Guns tend to be very personal items ("my wife, sure, my toothbrush, maybe, my rifle, never!!!"), but on the other hand, if we want our tradition to endure we must step up, be the stewards & mentors who bring the new hunters into the fold, & do our best to encourage them & have their best opportunity for success. I wouldn't lend out a rifle if I was uncomfortable about it, but if I see potential, I'll do as much as I can to 'grow' another hunter...

 

[SJB358]

...generally speaking, by the time I'm convinced that I'd hunt w/ someone, I usually pretty sure I can trust him w/ a 'loaner'. By a quirk of fate 'everyone' ended up shooting their elk w/ mt Tikka .300 WSM last year. Guns tend to be very personal items ("my wife, sure, my toothbrush, maybe, my rifle, never!!!"), but on the other hand, if we want our tradition to endure we must step up, be the stewards & mentors who bring the new hunters into the fold, & do our best to encourage them & have their best opportunity for success. I wouldn't lend out a rifle if I was uncomfortable about it, but if I see potential, I'll do as much as I can to 'grow' another hunter...

Well said... I feel the same way

 

[Dwh7271]

I agree, that was well said Gene.

 

[preacher]

Excellent Scott! You made him ( and you) some great "moments" to remember! I am a firm believer in helping the younger guys along, if, as was said, I feel comfortable with him. There have been a few that I have gave advice on what they should buy, and even helped them set them up with scope/loads/zero that I wouldn't have loaned one of mine to. On the other hand, like you, I think of what my young life was like, dirt poor, no help, so have helped some the way I would have liked to be helped. You did good friend!