Here’s a recipe for wild turkey that’s really good. I’ve cooked it for 20-30 folks at a time in hunting camps, and we don’t ever have any leftovers.
Hot Sauce Deep-Fried Turkey Breast
Cut one half of a turkey breast up in pieces about 1/2″ thick, pat it dry and put it in a big bowl. Stir in about half a big bottle of Louisiana hot sauce (don’t worry about using too much) and let it soak for at least 15 minutes—30 is better. Pour off any liquid that comes to the top. Then dump in a big splash of buttermilk and 1 beaten egg and stir it in well. When you are ready to fry, just roll it in a 3 to 1 mixture of bread crumbs and self-rising flour (with a little salt and pepper added) and drop it in when your grease is around 350-355 degrees. A 3 to 1 mix of cracker crumbs and flour is good too.
Deep frying in peanut oil seems to work best. It’s a lot faster too if you’re feeding a bunch of folks, and the oil doesn’t burn as easily. When it gets done it’ll float to the top. Don’t overcook it or it’ll get dry and tough.
It was another killer Sat. here at the shop. Everybody getting last minute stuff: bows,tons of arrows,broadheads, and all kinds of little stuff for the opener here in TX next Sat. I havent been able to shoot now for several weeks due to the busy season, but cant complain as that what we want! I tried to shoot some today and got a little broadhead practice in but not much. I do however have the drenalin and the Evotek Impact ready to go. I am going to shoot Rocky Mt. Ironheads to start the year off as I have tons of stock of this head and also want to put them to the test. Ashlyn is going to shoot her 85gr stingers and Cari the new NAP Hellrazor. I want to try the Hellrazor myself, but will wait till later. It comes out of the box sharp,tough and ready to go. Curious as to how easy it will resharpen. I also have a few rifles sighted in for the girls. Ashlyn has been shooting every evening and is pumped and ready. She even wanted to try skeet yesterday and done good for never shooting at anything moving or in the air. Especially with a full choked 410.
Hopefully after next week I will have all kinds of good hunting tales and reports, with plenty of pics. Everyone around here is in a frenzy to get ready. I need to go to our hill country lease and fill feeders but cant find the time. Guess will go the 3rd weekend in Oct. as will be in Oklahoma for the first weekend and at our place here in ETX next weekend. We are looking forward to the long season and thank TP&W for a 5 month MLD season. We are also going to try and waterfowl and squirrel hunt more this year than last. I have Ash a new 20ga coming just for that reason and am looking to buy a started squirrel dog. Nothing like hunting with dogs, cant beat it on small game. Looking forward to slowing down and spending lots of time in the woods and hope the same to you.
Yeah right, just like what Kerry tried to do. I dont believe or trust these guys as far as I can throw them. He along with McCain,Clinton and the rest just need to go find another country. I think they would fit right in in France! Heres the story.
LIBBY QUAID, Associated Press Writer 11 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Republican Rudy Giuliani sought to reassure the National Rifle Association of his support for a constitutional right to bear arms as rivals Fred Thompson, John McCain and Mike Huckabee contended the former New York mayor is no friend of gun owners.
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In a direct appeal Friday to the powerful lobbying group, Thompson, McCain and Huckabee stressed their backing for gun rights and record of siding with the NRA. Giuliani, who once referred to the NRA as “extremists,” tried to explain his shifting views on the issue.
The NRA’s support is prized as the group blankets its 4 million members with ads, mailings and phone calls. Before the 2008 election, it hopes to increase its numbers.
“I’d like us to respect each other; I think we have very, very legitimate and mostly similar views,” Giuliani told NRA members, who clapped politely a dozen times during his 20-minute speech.
Giuliani also tried to explain why, as mayor, he joined a lawsuit by several cities against the gun industry, arguing that manufacturers and distributors made it too easy for criminals to get guns.
On Friday, he said the ongoing lawsuit “has taken several turns and several twists I don’t agree with.”
Giuliani, an outspoken proponent of gun control during his eight years as mayor, said Friday he agrees with a recent federal court ruling that overturned a 30-year-old ban on private ownership of handguns in Washington, D.C. He added that he would appoint judges who take a similarly strict view of the Constitution and the Second Amendment.
Despite Giuliani’s changing views, NRA chief Wayne LaPierre said: “All I know is, I liked what I heard today. It’s a good thing, if a politician sees the light and supports the Second Amendment.”
Thompson, McCain and Huckabee chose to highlight their record on gun rights in a veiled criticism of Giuliani and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. In 1994, Romney supported the Brady gun control law and said he wouldn’t be the hero of the NRA.
Romney became a lifetime member of the NRA in 2006. He addressed the group by video Friday.
“Let me speak very directly and candidly about where I stand: I support the Second Amendment as one of the most basic and fundamental rights of every American. It’s essential to our functioning as a free society, as are all the liberties enumerated in the Bill of Rights,” he said.
Thompson, who makes a point of visiting gun shops and gun shows in early voting states, received a warmer reception from the audience of about 500 people, some of whom stood and cheered when he said: “Our basic rights come from God, not from government.”
Thompson recently indicated that he wouldn’t talk about his faith on the campaign trail.
“It’s not just a matter of promises made, as far as I’m concerned. It’s a matter of commitments that have been kept,” Thompson said.
McCain criticized Giuliani outright, citing the use of the word “extremists” in reference to the NRA.
“My friends, gun owners are not extremists; you are the core of modern America,” the Arizona senator said. “The Second Amendment is unique in the world and at the core of our constitutional freedoms. It guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms. To argue anything else is to reject the clear meaning of our founding fathers.
Anti-war protesters from the group Code Pink interrupted his speech and were escorted from the hotel ballroom.
The candidates spoke to the NRA as gun violence occurred on another college campus. Two students were shot and wounded, one seriously, at Delaware State University, and the campus was locked down as police searched for a gunman.
Such tragedies inevitably prompt politicians to argue over whether more or fewer gun restrictions would prevent gun crimes. Giuliani said he believes the best way to prevent such crimes is to enforce existing gun laws, not create new ones.
The former mayor said his views on gun rights were tempered by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks: “Sept. 11 casts somewhat of a different light on Second Amendment rights; it maybe highlights the necessity for them more,” Giuliani said.
Giuliani sought to make the case for his candidacy by highlighting his front-runner status in national polls.
“You never get a candidate you agree with 100 percent — I’m not sure I even agree with myself 100 percent,” Giuliani said. “You have to figure out who’s electable, who can win. Because if we make a mistake about that, this country is going to go in a direction that I think you and I very much disagree with.”
Giuliani has said recently that what has worked in New York might not work elsewhere, a notion that Huckabee scoffed at.
The former Arkansas governor said it was “absurd, laughable, that we would have geographic boundaries on the tenets of the Second Amendment.”
Giuliani’s cell phone rang in the middle of his speech; he said it was his wife, Judith, and as the audience laughed, he answered it and had a brief conversation.
10 more days and our bow and mld seasons will open as well as the squirrel season. I have been busy as can be, with prime time here at the bow shop as well as running a dozer or burning everyday. Have had the camera out and taken a few pics and have a buck picked out for Ashlyn. Check him out. Hope we can get him the first weekend while he is still on the summer pattern. I have her little 257 Roberts sighted in and ready to go. She has been practicing shooting off the sticks since we are gonna be in a ground blind and is shooting great. I have her a new shotgun on the way, she is a squirrel hunting nut as well, and wants to try some ducks and geese. I have been fine tuning and fooling with both my hunting bows, tweaking this and that. Then I went and changed rests on my Evotek since the QAD quit on me. It would stay locked up and not go down causing the arrow to hit the dirt at 15-20yds instead of the target. I got a Hostage on it and my Mathews now and have both sighted in with broadheads and ready to rock. Might sneak off to the club one day this week since we have a lot of hogs right now, get rid of some of that edge. I let the girls work on the hogs this summer and I missed out, so now I am ready to shoot something! A hog or a couple does would be a good start. Will let you know how it goes in the next few weeks. Here is the pic
The one in velvet is the target, for her first big buck. I have only let her shoot culls in the past. She has been after me to shoot a good buck the last 3 years and I just kept telling her to shoot the does! She is ready now.0
Sen. Vitter Moves To “Stick It” To The Anti-gun United Nations — GOA-supported amendment passes overwhelmingly in the Senate
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Friday, September 7, 2007
Senator David Vitter (R-LA) pushed a pro-gun amendment through the U.S. Senate last night on an 81-10 vote. GOA worked closely with Vitter in getting the language just right, as Senate rules make it difficult to attach certain amendments to spending bills.
The Vitter provision stipulates that no U.S. funds can be used by the United Nations — or organizations affiliated with the UN — to restrict or tax our gun rights. Hence, the amendment would give a mildly pro-gun administration the excuse to stop sending US taxpayer funds to the United Nations as soon as they adopt any policy to restrict the Second Amendment rights of Americans. (The Vitter amendment was added to HR 2764, the Department of State appropriations bill.)
Interestingly, four of the Senators who opposed the pro-gun Vitter amendment ALSO spoke in favor of the Veterans Disarmament Act during a committee vote in July — Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
All four of these notoriously anti-gun Senators have now demonstrated their support for INTERNATIONAL GUN CONTROL, even while they support the Veterans Disarmament Bill here at home. The latter bill only has a number in the House (HR 2640). This measure has been introduced by the equally anti-gun Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), and will expand the Brady Law to deny firearms to hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Americans. See http://www.gunowners.org/netb.htm for more information on the Veterans Disarmament Bill.
ACTION: Please send Sen. Vitter a brief thank you for all the work he has done for gun owners nationwide. You will remember that last year, he succeeded in getting language passed (and signed by the President) to ban the confiscation of firearms during a declared emergency.
Thank you so much for your efforts to defend the U.S. Constitution and the Second Amendment in particular. I agree that the United Nations is filled with tons of gun-grabbing tyrants, and your amendment is a great first step towards doing something about it.
This recipe makes a lot. Cut in half to serve 4-6 people.
3 large onions
1 large bell pepper
2 cans of stewed tomatoes
2 cans tomato sauce
2 cans of rotel
2 large cans of ranch style beans and one regular can
1/3 cup of Worcestershire sauce
½ cup of liquid smoke
2 packs of Lawrey’s chili mix
1 tablespoon of Tony Chachere’s or steak seasoning
1 can of beer
1 pound of smoked sausage (cook and drain)
4-5 pounds of ground hamburger or venison (cook and drain
Looking for a great womens or youth bow? Look no further than the Pearson sidewinder for a great little bow. First the bow has an angled grip to help keep the string off new archers arms, is light weight and high performanced. I shot this bow in the shop today with a 300gr arrow and got 239fps at 24″ 51lbs, 259fps at 28″ 51lbs, and 195 at 22″ 40lb. This is the fastest bow I have found at the short 22″ draw that my daughter shoots. It is around 30-40 fps faster than the Hoyt banshee,Hoyt Trykon Jr,Diamond edge and Mathews Ignition at 22″ and 40lbs. It has a great looking camo job and the finish is flawless. Backed by Pearsons lifetime for any owner warranty you cant go wrong with this great little bow.
I had a customer last night wanting a fast bow at a light draw weight, I wasnt at the shop so I couldnt help Cari out. So today I did a little testing to get the velocity of some 60lb bows set at 55lbs shooting a 280gr Goldtip ultralite arrow. All the bows were set at the same weight and had a 29″ draw length except the Diamond Liberty which was a 30″ as I had no 29″ mod for it. The results are as follows with a 5 shot average on the speeds through my ProChrono.
Hoyt Vetrix 297fps
Bowtech Gaurdian 290fps
Diamond liberty (30″) 293fps
Mathews Drenalin 292fps
Evotek American hunter 263fps
Evotek Impact 263 fps (yes they had the same speed and is not a typo)
I also got my hand on a 70lb 29″ Evotek Stalker today and it shot 290 @65lb with a 330gr Lightspeed 400.
Well here it is that time of year. The busy season!! We are getting swamped with arrow orders, refletch, repairs and new sales. With me pushing firelanes in the morning and in the shop in the evening it doesnt leave time to do much else. But Saturday will kick off the hunting season here in TX and I plan on being out and shooting some birds. Gonna actually be in OK instead of TX this weekend though.
My friend Dave has tons of birds just south of OK city. We are going to shoot some in the morning and fish in the evening and go hang some stands on Sunday. Our big company dove hunt will be on Sept 21 and we should have about 50 people at that one. It is in Elcampo with Waterfowl Specialties, they sure enough can put you on some whitewings and geese, not to mention some big trout out of Matagorda. Last year 33 people killed 333 doves in about 3 hours or so, not to mention the beer and BBQ.
I have got to find time and run and put up my popup blinds on red branch and change the card in my cuddeback. I know I have some good bucks on film, just have to make the time to go and get them. I prefer to go in the middle of the day as I dont want to put any pressure at all on the deer. So maybe I can post some pics if I ever go get it!! One more month till we can start flinging sticks at these whitetails, or bullets on our level 3 mld club. Can’t wait to get a cool snap and get out there and get after them and also get all my control burning done till next year. It looks to be a great year with all the rain we have had and should see some really nice bucks come out of the woodwork this year. Especially in the hill country and south Tx where they have had loads of rain. My partner has already got a bunch of pics of some bucks we were seeing last year and if one of them steps out I am gonna let Ashlyn lay him on the ground. These are a couple of really nice 8pts that are in the 5 1/2 yo range. Perfect for her first big buck, I have only let her shoot does and some small culls up until this year. Didnt want to spoil her from the get go!!
Have a good weekend and open the seasons with a bang, or maybe a couple of cases of them!
I have been outside all evening watching perfectly tuned and flying arrows hit exactly where I want at 50 and 60yds. I am not talking about trying to shoot critters at this range though elk and caribou are taken with a bow at these ranges alot. I have no problem taking a long shot on an open country animal, but whitetails are a totally different story.
It sure is fun to watch those long shots arch in there, even though they dont arch near as much as they use to when shooting the older bows. Take a recurve or longbow though and also back up to 40 or 50 yds and you can sure enough have fun watching the arrow heading towards the target.
Shooting at longer distances all the time also makes it a lot easier to hit the closer shots. When you can shoot 3-5″ 60yd groups you had better not shoot at the same spot much at 20yds, or you will be destroying some arrows.
Get out there and stretch the range out and have a little fun, if you havent stretched out before, make sure you have a good backstop till you get your sights on and get on target.
