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  1. gunslinger

    How do you save money?

    I love my kids too, but I can't wait to get rid of them. I keep trying to give my daughters away to Amish boys, but they just don't seem to be interested.
  2. gunslinger

    Locust, Black walnut, Beech

    We have black locust and Osage orange, and the Osage orange is the tree of choice for fence posts here. Very, very strong and rot proof. The Indians in the area made their long bows from the Osage orange and there are still long bow makers around here that use it. And talk about hot burning. Our...
  3. gunslinger

    How do you save money?

    My feathers are laid down perfectly. I just think we take some of this stuff way to seriously. I have seen things that would make you vomit on the spot when I was hauling food products over the road. That's what I'm talking about. My wife saves butter bowls too. It drives me nuts when I get into...
  4. gunslinger

    How do you save money?

    Thanks all for the replies to this. I know most of us bargain shop for meat and food, but what I'm thinking is what about everything else. For instance; do you wash your plastic-ware, stuff like that. Or what do you do in a pinch? How about cutlery. I have some nice cutlery, and I have quite...
  5. gunslinger

    How do you save money?

    We raise chickens too. We're out of the poultry meat business now though. It's just too much. Now if we want chicken, I go get a young one from the flock and that's dinner. My wife sells the eggs. She has brown, white and a new addition, green. Pretty cool. The pigs we have will also be the...
  6. gunslinger

    How do you save money?

    You really need a vacuum packer.
  7. gunslinger

    How do you save money?

    Been using it for probably 13 or 14 years. Ever since me and the missus got hitched anyway. Never sick, never poisoned anyone, never a residue of flavor, nothing. I believe I'll stick with it. IMHO people get a little to paranoid about this kind of stuff. I mean, my homebuilt smoker is far from...
  8. gunslinger

    Who Smokes Venison ?

    I knew that was coming. I do 3 things with deer. Ground, jerky and what ever I want to with the tenderloins. This was the first year in MANY that I didn't deer hunt. And still ended up with over 200 pounds in the freezer. And never use the word "waste" until you've had my chili.
  9. gunslinger

    How do you save money?

    Hey Al, what do you grow. The only thing I saw in the high plains was sun flowers, wheat and like us, ROCKS.
  10. gunslinger

    How do you save money?

    As far as spices go; what my wife doesn't grow, I buy online in bulk. First I go to Sams website and do a cost comparison. If the spices online are more with shipping by the oz. then I buy at Sams. To date, I've gotten much better deals online.
  11. gunslinger

    Who Smokes Venison ?

    You've put me on the spot here. Do you want any ole recipe? Or BBQ specific? After being on this forum for a few months, it's almost unbelievable that there could be anymore BBQ recipes, but then I am constantly amzed at what folks come up with and post. I do have a great chili recipe that I...
  12. gunslinger

    How do you save money?

    I thought this would be a good way to share each others secret savings ideas. Obviously we all either raise our food or buy in quantity when the price is right, or like us, both. What I would like to share is how we save $$ in other areas, like food prep items, or throw away items and the like...
  13. gunslinger

    Locust, Black walnut, Beech

    I don't find hickory to be strong in the least, especially shag-bark hickory. Black walnut is strong and can be bitter. I've heard the black locust is not a good smoking wood at all.
  14. gunslinger

    To cure or not to cure.... That's my question

    Actually, I love ham. Sorry about that. I don't know what page you are looking at, but if you'll go to the forum start page and scroll down, you'll see a bunch of different categories. There are separate ones for pork, beef, poultry, wild game, etc.
  15. gunslinger

    To cure or not to cure.... That's my question

    After reading this again, I think there is some confusion about the difference between brining and curing. What you are talking about is brining. There is a huge difference. That being said, there is no need to brine pork. It will be moist and tender and keep plenty long as long as you follow...
  16. gunslinger

    just on board!

    Welcome to SMF.
  17. gunslinger

    Howdy, Howdy, Howdy

    Welcome to SMF. Don't sniff too hard, you might find a steaming pile of.................a.............................. .....................pulled pork.
  18. gunslinger

    To cure or not to cure.... That's my question

    I'd say you'd have gotten a lot more responses to your question if it had been posted in the correct category. But I'll give it a go. Tell your butcher to go back to school. What do you want? Pulled pork or smoked ham. If you cure it, you have a ham. It will look like ham, cut like ham, smell...
  19. gunslinger

    Hey, what's up ya'll?

    Welcome to SMF. I know nothing about your smoker. But if you can smoke in a paper bag or a garbage can, I'd say you can smoke in anything. As far as meat quality goes; my feeling is that a home raised slab of muscle tastes best, but the beauty of "low and slow" is that you can take just about...
  20. gunslinger

    hey all

    Welcome to SMF.
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