Maverick MM-5501 Meat Grinder
By Keith Dewars*
Venison
processing. If you are anything like me, you cringe a little every
time you take a deer to the butcher to have it sliced, diced or ground into
your favorite steaks, sausages and hot sticks. Too many times we
hear about a hunter not getting the correct amount of meat back.
Or too much garlic in the sausage. Or the meat has an off taste (most
likely from being mixed in with a batch from someone else's ill-cared
for harvest). Any number of things can happen when you give up
control of your hard-earned venison.
With all of those thoughts burning in the back of my brain, I was
pleasantly surprised when I recently had the opportunity to test a Maverick MM-5501 Meat Grinder from Pleasant Hill
Grain. The Maverick MM-5501 is a 575 Watt electric grinder,
perfectly suited for normal home use such as grinding meats... Click
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David's first buck
By Troy Basso*
There are days in every young mans life that stick with
him forever. Sunday was one of those days for David Sobiek . This being
the last weekend of the 2005/2006 deer season he was in the woods.
Notice I said in the woods, not on a Playstation, XBox or sitting on the
couch watching the television. The boy was out in the fresh air bonding
with Mother Nature.
This hunt actually started Saturday after lunch. David
and his father Butch Sobiek arrived at the house. The plan was to put
David in a highly productive stand and hope he got to harvest a deer,
preferably a buck since he had yet to tag one. At 2:30 we got to the
stand, made sure his safety harness was on correctly and reminded him
about being safe no matter what. I returned to the house, about 200
yards away, and waited for something to happen. The sun went down and I
waited in hopes of hearing the .300 Winchester bark, but tonight was not
the night. At dark I met them and he had seen nothing but a rabbit and
some songbirds. It was almost painful to see the disappointment in his
face. Well, we made the best of a not so productive night and decided to
cook trout and doves on the grill. David decided he would try it again
on Sunday morning. Read
more.
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