The blessing was an awesome harvest of adult does and some dandy antlered bucks. Exactly what you want and need to do to keep the burgeoning herd in check. By all accounts this year may possibly bring more of the same.
The curse is that processing deer is a lot of work. It is hard, hard work.
Skinning, deboning, cutting and packaging comes with it's share of drudgery. No getting around it. If it was easy The Frau would tell you it was shopping for your meat.
Having said that there is something to be said for processing your own deer and knowing that at every step you have taken the requisite pains to assure that your bounty from the field has been killed humanely, processed quickly and meticulously.
In 2015 we had a dilemma. We ran out of places to hang deer. There is only one gambrel hoist in the machine shed so all the other deer had to hang from every available apple tree in the yard.
A totally ghastly welcome for a stranger entering the driveway.
So there is this.
The solution.
Nice, robustly-welded brackets that will accept a 4x4 post. Designed for a backyard child's swing set they are perfect for the assembly of a giant saw buck for hanging deer as opposed to swings.
I want to thank my pal New Guy for thinking of this and locating these brackets on eBay for purchase and free shipping. The brilliance of these is I think we can assemble the parts and hang the deer from pulleys. After camp has closed our meat pole can be easily disassembled and stored in the barn for next year.
My plan is to take pictures of it with deer hanging and email them to the swing set bracket company. If I had to hazard a guess by next year these will be sold by Cabela's and Gander for your own deer camp.
Raising a toast to American manufacturing, creative thinking and the ingenuity of friends.
This is what made America as great as it is.
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