My 13 year old son started shooting sports through 4H about 8 months ago. He qualified for the state shoot In the junior division in trap and sporting clays. He shot on a 4 man team . They took 1st place in sporting clays and 2nd place in trap. The big stage didn’t seem to bother Cooper. He shot his best round of trap ever with a 24 of 25. It was only his 2nd time ever to shoot sporting clays and he shot a 41 of 50. So to say the least I was a pretty proud dad. His coach was about as happy as I was. He was amazed at how well he shot with such a huge crowd around. Now we have to see if we get to shoot in nationals.

My son Cooper scored on another buck. He’s a happy camper except for the fact that he’s now tagged out. But he wound up with 2 really nice bucks.

I cured and smoked another ham and some ham hocks. This ham was rubbed with maple syrup then coated with maple sugar before it hit the smoker. Smoked to 148 IT. The sweetness and moisture of this ham was great. I have my last ham in the brine now. I think I’ll do it the exact same way.
You can see I kept a piece out for snacking.

Gotta brag on my 12 year old son. Got his first bowkill ever this morning. He did it by himself cause I was hunting another property. He’s been hunting this buck since October 1st. He passed on alot of smaller bucks waiting for this guy and it paid off. I’m so proud of him to finally show that patience. He did shoot him a little too far back but he only went about 100 yards. I really enjoyed teaching him and my daughter how to follow a blood trail. It was a great day.

Had some nice weather so went and caught a good mess of largemouths the other day.

Had my first fresh corn from the garden. It was really good but about a week or 10 days from being fully mature. Getting lots of cucumbers and 5 or 6 tomatoes a day now. Man it’s great to be eating out of the garden again.

My pork loin is ready for the smoker today. First try for Canadian bacon. I trimmed half and left the fat on the other half. I’ll see what the family likes best. Smoking to IT of 145 to 150.
Wish me luck.

cdavis with the help of my daughter we fried some fresh largemouth using chicken on the run.

cdavis

cdavis forgot the photo

HerbcoFood looks great. What I T did you cook that to?

scottfletcher wow great writeup. Lots of work. Congrats and thanks

Deepwoodsbutcher looks delicious

wvotrfan that is another great SCORE congrats

WiscoHunter1995 welcome aboard.

RON PARRISH said in What are you hunting/fishing?:

cdavis Seems to be a few around me that are black.Coyotes are getting way out of hand here

Same here. We’ve been killing them every chance we get. My son got 2 Sunday from our back deck.

wdaly looks great congrats

lgnick welcome aboard

OleSmokey great looking soup

hunters stick they look great to me. Congrats