1st beef… lessons learned
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First ever beef. Huge learning experience.
1: Don’t use your son’s gun to make the kill shot. Discovered it shoots 3” low for me. A half mile chase and a .243 finished the job. Hopefully the stress didn’t ruin the meat.
2: A skinning cradle that I don’t have to bend over with is in my very near future!
3: A wheel barrel with a flat tire doesn’t help when trying to get the quartered beef in the cooler.
4: A 12” pruning blade on the saws all doesn’t always stay on track when halving the carcass.Good learning curve. Thankfully I’m just grinding this wild heifer into burger. I’ll let her hang until next weekend and start grinding her up. May keep a few steaks just to see how a grass fed heifer straight off the cow tastes……
Can’t figure out how to upload the picture of the beef hanging in my cooler. Says it’s too large.
knifemaker3 said in 1st beef… lessons learned:
First ever beef. Huge learning experience.
1: Don’t use your son’s gun to make the kill shot. Discovered it shoots 3” low for me. A half mile chase and a .243 finished the job. Hopefully the stress didn’t ruin the meat.
2: A skinning cradle that I don’t have to bend over with is in my very near future!
3: A wheel barrel with a flat tire doesn’t help when trying to get the quartered beef in the cooler.
4: A 12” pruning blade on the saws all doesn’t always stay on track when halving the carcass.Good learning curve. Thankfully I’m just grinding this wild heifer into burger. I’ll let her hang until next weekend and start grinding her up. May keep a few steaks just to see how a grass fed heifer straight off the cow tastes……
Can’t figure out how to upload the picture of the beef hanging in my cooler. Says it’s too large.
Words of wisdom
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knifemaker3 said in 1st beef… lessons learned:
Finally figured out how to load the photo of the cooler.
Wholey Carp, you have a commercial cooler and no meat saw?
@dennyo nope not commercial. Strictly home use.
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Update. Got the beef cut up with no problem. She was smaller than I thought. 127 pounds burger, 2 brisket, 2 chuck roast, and one side of boneless ribeye steaks(10 steaks).
Guessed her at 650-750 live weight.
I will be getting a bandsaw soon. Grizzly if I can’t find a small used commercial close.
Going to eat some ribeye for supper tonight!
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Update. Got the beef cut up with no problem. She was smaller than I thought. 127 pounds burger, 2 brisket, 2 chuck roast, and one side of boneless ribeye steaks(10 steaks).
Guessed her at 650-750 live weight.
I will be getting a bandsaw soon. Grizzly if I can’t find a small used commercial close.
Going to eat some ribeye for supper tonight!
knifemaker3 Sounds like you learned a lot and got the job done, win, win.
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Update. Got the beef cut up with no problem. She was smaller than I thought. 127 pounds burger, 2 brisket, 2 chuck roast, and one side of boneless ribeye steaks(10 steaks).
Guessed her at 650-750 live weight.
I will be getting a bandsaw soon. Grizzly if I can’t find a small used commercial close.
Going to eat some ribeye for supper tonight!
knifemaker3 sounds like you did a great job. Congrats
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Update. Got the beef cut up with no problem. She was smaller than I thought. 127 pounds burger, 2 brisket, 2 chuck roast, and one side of boneless ribeye steaks(10 steaks).
Guessed her at 650-750 live weight.
I will be getting a bandsaw soon. Grizzly if I can’t find a small used commercial close.
Going to eat some ribeye for supper tonight!
knifemaker3 a band saw and a meat cutting bandsaw are a different setup , I have looked on the net for them myself
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knifemaker3 a band saw and a meat cutting bandsaw are a different setup , I have looked on the net for them myself
craigrice said in 1st beef… lessons learned:
knifemaker3 a band saw and a meat cutting bandsaw are a different setup , I have looked on the net for them myself
Aware of that grizzly sells a meat bandsaw
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knifemaker3 That is great, thanks for sharing and enjoy those ribeyes!
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knifemaker3 That is great, thanks for sharing and enjoy those ribeyes!
Jonathon said in 1st beef… lessons learned:
knifemaker3 That is great, thanks for sharing and enjoy those ribeyes!
The ribeye was great! Little salt and some Weber steak n chop seasoning pan fried…… good eats!
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Finally figured out how to load the photo of the cooler.
knifemaker3 We are all proud of you. That is a small feat in itself. Enjoy them rib eyes as a reward.
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Update. Got the beef cut up with no problem. She was smaller than I thought. 127 pounds burger, 2 brisket, 2 chuck roast, and one side of boneless ribeye steaks(10 steaks).
Guessed her at 650-750 live weight.
I will be getting a bandsaw soon. Grizzly if I can’t find a small used commercial close.
Going to eat some ribeye for supper tonight!
knifemaker3 nice job and thanks for sharing you journey with us.
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Great read, congrats! Thx for posting!
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