If you want a gland like color that I have you need to be very strict with your cuts, keep blood and any other additives/feces from that animal will cause a drastic color change to your product during the aging process.

Those other additives will change everything. If you would like to up grade your process to a natural tan/cream/light brown finished color with a natural animal specific odor you need to be on top of your process and pay attention to it regularly. You need to watch for changes, bacteria, mold growth and any other problems like fly eggs, larvae etc.

You must be sure you start with very clean gland cuts. Absolutely no feces in your attached colon pieces to your anal gland and no other organs added. When you start adding livers, kidneys or other organs you will get dark red/grey breakdown gland color.

We have always aged everything indoors in a controlled environment. No drastic temperature changes or exposure to high temperatures. You will never get clean finished gland color with outdoor aging. If they start to turn you have done something wrong. Our glands remain the same in color once they have several months of age beyond the fresh ground state.

Gland and meat aging can be very challenging to a beginning formulator until you get a handle on it. There is a very big odor difference between rotted down glands outdoors and those aged slowly indoors over years. Smell them side by side and you will understand better. We prefer more a more natural and subtle gland odor vs the sharp outdoor aged material.

I thought about that, but I wanted ya’ll opinion because i think the possibility of shtf is higher than him missing a coyote. So I’m not going to lose sleep over it. I also had to walk around this to get to my sets further from the road. If hes on here he can PM me. His snares are going to literally hip catch deer.

I pulled my sets, hes own his own path

Oh, and i thought of this going to sleep. A few of his wolf snares are fence stapled to tree. Aprox 4’ up. No swivels

$100 plus shipping for the 3 buckets.

Maybe it was just out of fuel?

I don't see any illegal actions with that. If you have a tag and he has a tag to hunt yours would be a good deal and legal. If you would have any questions though I would call you DNR office and talk to someone.

Thats him

The finger biting was a completely different incident occuring same day and not directly associated with the shooting incident.

Not going there....

And where did you say you lived ?

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Today's projected high is -16. It hasn't been above zero for almost a week. Should go above zero tomorrow. 9 degrees for a high, I think I'll work on my tan. It's been a couple years since we've seen a cold spell like this. We should be able to ice fish until the first of May.

Nothing like the winter of 96/97. Spring storm took out power and wasn't restored in areas for days and even weeks. Got pretty cold behind it. I don't know anyone who left, we all stayed home and figured it out.

I try not to complain too much, our friends to the north have it colder.

Our temps are forecast to be single digit to just below zero for lows for about the next week. I dont think the snow is going to melt anytime soon. Heaters are running non stop and wood burner (outdoor) is eating the wood. Got 5 more small truck loads (ranger) in the 24 hours befor the storm on the. pile. Figuring i won't be able to get around to meet any cut for a while.

Saw 40lb bags of nut coal at Tractor supply so bought the 4 bags they had. Have not burned coal except the 3.2 tons I got at an Indiana mine. High sulfur . It burned hot but I didn't like it. Had to mix it in with wood to keeo it going. Thought I would try this on Monday when it going to be cold and see if the better coal makes a difference. Check burn times and see if its cost effective( i dont think it will be) but being limited and board its a good experiment. And I have not smelled coal smoke in a while.

Crazy how this is cold and a lot of snow for us and like summer temps and a dusting to so many of our members up north..