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White-tailed
Deer (non-CWD units and non-metro units)
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Uncle Al’s Venison Stew By Allyn Spoerl
Ingredients- 5 pounds venison cubed
7 carrots sliced
3 celery sticks sliced
2 large onions diced
1 green pepper chopped
1 red pepper chopped
2 14 oz. Cans stewed tomatoes
2 15 oz. Cans mushrooms
1 14 oz. can of Italian tomatoes
5 large potatoes cubed
1 can peas
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons tapioca
3 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon garlic powder
5 bay leaves
5 basil leaves
1 tablespoon oregano
1 tablespoon
1 tablespoon Cajun seasoning
Place all ingredients in a big crock pot, cook on low for four hours stirring often. Add peas the last hour. That’s it. Serves about 8 hungry hunters. It’s a sweet stew that can be served on mashed potatoes, rice or just eaten by itself.
Julie's Venison Chili
Julie Spoerl
Really, any type of ground meat can be added to this awesome recipe. Everyone has their favorite chili recipe but this one will surely astound you. It has such a variety of flavors that it will not only cover your tongue but send you running for seconds and possibly thirds. My wife and I put our ingredients together to make this our own wild game chili.
Ingredients
1-2 lbs ground venison (to thickness taste)
1 chopped onion
1 lb can whole tomatoes
1 can skinless chili beans
1 can red kidney beans (drained, rinsed)
2 six ounce can’s tomato paste
1 medium jar salsa (hot or mild to taste)
1 can tomato sauce
2 tablespoons chili powder
2 tablespoons sugar
A quarter tsp salt
A half tsp Tabasco sauce
4-8 oz. Shredded cheddar cheese (to taste)
Brown ground venison and chopped onion together in large skillet. Add all ingredients, except cheese, to a large pan or slow cooker. Cover and cook on medium heat for 45 minutes. Serve in bowls and top with cheese. To melt cheese quickly, put bowls in microwave until melted or simply let the cheese melt on its own.
Earn a Buck Hunt
By Rick Spoerl
Being a native Wisconsinite who has traveled around quite a bit and hunted several states and providences of Canada I’ve stuck up for this state I love passionately. Being a die hard Packers, Brewers, Bucks and college sports fan I’ve continually argued to people how great our state is. But when it comes to deer hunting I’m nearly embarrassed to call Wisconsin my home. "READ MORE"Do Scents make Scents
By Rick Spoerl
After four hours in the tree without seeing a deer I was ecstatic when the eight pointer ran out into the hayfield some hundred and fifty yards from me. He stood in the middle of the field like he owned the planet.
I was up wind of him and I thought it was just a matter of time before the buck would wind me and bolt back into the forest. It was the end of October, sunny with a ten to fifteen mile an hour wind with temps in the mid fifties. I was hunting a secluded farm about a hundred yards from a fence line with over twenty rubs on it. The buck that made them wanted everything to know this was his backyard.
Early in the morning as I walked to the tree I kicked up four does bedded in the hay field next to me and this buck was here to find them. I had placed four scent wicks soaked in doe estrus around the tree I would be in. I also placed one wick with a buck tarsal gland scent on it directly under my tree. "READ MORE"
Opening Gun Hunt, Luck or Skill?
By Rick Spoerl
Is it skillful woodsman ship or pure dumb luck? How does Joe blow kill a giant buck nearly every year and some of us don’t even see a deer? How do we approach the opener? With the stealth ness of a Myles Kellar or Chuck Adams. Or a haphazard way like ole Joe blow.
Joe sits in the bar the evening before (in his blaze orange) drinking beers and telling the other patrons about the big buck he shot last year. Than after only two hours sleep gets up at seven o’clock and walks out to his stand, burns a mule at the bottom of his tree, climbs up in his tree stand and about seven thirty in the morning sparks up a grit and watches a ten pointer walk a tree line right to him (down wind never picking his head up). He grabs his gun (that he hasn’t sighted in the past eight years), puts the cross hairs behind the front shoulder, pulls the trigger and hits the buck just inside the vitals letting the monster buck live long enough to run almost all the way to his truck. Than as Joe finishes putting his tag on the buck another hunter walks up and helps him drag it the rest of the way to the truck. "READ MORE"
Stand location & Shooting Lanes
By Rick Spoerl
After scouting the lower forty (a piece of property I have hunted the past couple years) I placed my ladder stand in between two common deer trails with several scrapes along it. How important is stand placement? I will be on a three day bow hunt and had hunted this area the year before and saw five bucks in just a couple of days. The area is about a five hour drive from my home. Everyone knows deer patterns can change from year to year, but hunters continually hunt the same stand location. By leaving your stand at that location, you disturb less cover. On the other hand like me, sometimes we hunt several areas far from home and only can afford one or two stands. So we must move them and re-hang them every hunt or every year. With limited time to hunt, I had only walked the first couple acres of the forty and didn’t want to disturb the area much. I placed my stand in the same location I had placed it the last couple of years. The wind was ideal for my location.
Welcome to The Doe Club
By Rick Spoerl
Well I did it. This year I finally shot a doe. It’s not like I haven’t tried. I have tagged two antlerless deer. But unfortunately what I thought were doe’s was really two button bucks. But not this year. What I thought might be a button buck turned out to be a big doe. It was a good harvest and some tasty steaks in the freezer. It was the only deer I saw up to 9:14 AM. And by the way, the only deer I saw while on stand opening weekend. You see this year I had only Friday thru Sunday off work, meaning I would have to leave after hunting Sunday morning. The old saying "if its brown it’s down" was definitely in order. So my son Sean and I gave it our best shot. To bad Sean didn’t score this year but last year he did get his first deer during the youth/zone-t doe hunt. He shot a nice doe and I think I was more excited then he, although he was shaking pretty badly when I walked up to his tree. He had put the deer down at forty yards with a well placed spine shot. "READ MORE"
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Uncle Al & His Unicorn Buck
Two Adult Does Shot By Rick & Sean Spoerl
No Shot on This Big Buck
Again, No Shot
Gary Cutting & Rick Spoerl Repositioning Stands
Sean Spoerl with His Doe
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