Finally the 2012 Wisconsin Deer Season Video

Finally I got the deer season video up.  I apologize for the crazy amount of time it took, but you see as Quad Survival we had an emergency that put everything on the back burner.  Our member Jimmy, got in a horrible car accident and was severely injured.  I encourage everyone to hope and pray for him as he continues his long road ahead and pray he has a full recovery.  With that said this video has a lot more fun than serious in it.  I hope everyone gets a slight kick out of it at least.  This video shows the deer George got while he and I were literally messing around in the woods just for fun.  That goes to show you all you have to do is be out there.  You can't get any deer talking about hunting just go into the woods and quit talking.  In this video it shows cookin with Jim where Jimmy cooks up that exact deer you see George harvesting the day before.  I got a little bit silly and tried to cut myself some venison bacon from the deer and it did not turn out well at all.  It tasted horrible, but as the cheap person I am I still ate it and learned not to do that again.  Here is the video I hope you enjoy.

Also look out for our next video coming which is ice fishing just like last year, but with less stuff cuz well I didn't get much ice fishing in due to visiting Jimmy.

Ice fishing is coming!

Well winter is upon us now. We got about 10 inches of snow sunday and sunday night. It is also below freezing also which means the lakes are starting to freeze. The snow on top isn't helping much tho. Gunna try and get out ice fishing here soon. Gotta wait for the ice to get a little thicker first.

Second Annual Black Forest Lodge Awards

It is that time of year again!  Time for the second annual Black Forest Lodge awards.  This year at the BFL was a little less crazy but a little more venison filled so it mostly evened out.  It is nothing short of a miracle the BFL is still standing and we are still waiting on Jared's relatives to do some improvement on the building.  Eric was noticeably absent except for one day at the BFL.  Therefore, sadly we kick of the awards of biggest puss wagon and for second year of the row the winner is...

Biggest Puss Wagon

Eric
Now, first off to give Eric credit he has improved greatly over last year.  There were were empty beverage bottles hidden throughout the woods, and we didn't find any bottles filled with water.  That alone, made me consider taking him out of this category this year.  But, as I was reminded by Ryan, he hunted the least number of days at the BFL which qualified him for this award.  I did invite him to go hunting and trap checking/setting with me on the last Saturday of the season and his only answer was a straight "NO" with no reasoning behind it.  Now this could be because it was one of the coldest days of the season, or because he had a date with a little filly.  Either way we are assuming the first reason until we hear otherwise.  The fact that Ryan was out hunting at the BFL more days than Eric brings us to our next award which is a two way tie.

Most Improved

Tie: Jared and Ryan
Each of these men deserve for a few reasons.  First of all we will talk about Ryan.  Again Ryan went out this year to the BFL whenever he was invited and had free time with not a single complaint.  Even on a cold day when Eric would not show up Ryan was there.  He also beat Eric for both number of days and hours out at the BFL.  We are still waiting for him to get his hunter's safety and get hunting which is only the next logical step from here on out.  Therefore with improvements pushing him into the spent more time at the BFL hunting than Eric category Ryan again wins the most improved award.

Jared
Jared won most improved this year for one main reason.  That reason was he actually was seriously hunting for at least two days out of the time he was there.  One of those days he even helped George harvest us some meat.  He also brought less liquid than normal to his stands in an attempt to stay on top of things instead of below them sleeping.  Twice he also stayed out hunting until hunting hours were over.  He did not once this year use a truck as his stand or go against walking in the woods instead of sitting.  Also he, George, and Ryan tried there hand at a little trapping practice during the deer season which shows all three men were very dedicated to being in the outdoors.

Laziest Hunter

Jake
Jake did what he always does and got his buck within the first few hours of the Wisconsin Gun Deer Season Opener.  After that he was just as hard to get out there as Old Man Rounce.  While Jared was home getting out to the BFL before noon was next to impossible with Jake and Old Man Rounce screwing around.  This year Jake didn't do his typical be up at 6 am to hunt, be a little bit wobbly by noon, then cook Supper for everyone at night.  He instead mimicked the ways of Old Man Rounce.  We had high hopes for Jake considering how he won BFL Man Of The Year last year and had everyone impressed by his skills and abilities, but this year must have been an off year for him.

Best Shot and Worst Shot

 George
George win's both awards this year.  He had the uncanny ability to drop deer where they stood.  A good story about that will come on later down in this article.  Even a deer he hit from the rear end dropped right away.  We all know that is a bad shot, but he dropped it along with his other two deer he shot this year therefore George wins both awards just on his ability to drop deer.

Best Mustache

Ryan

We thought the contest would be a little bit closer between Ryan and Jared, but according to the woman vote Ryan wins it.  Ryan also has more donations than Jared for Movember so that probably helped him winning this award as well.  Either way congrats to Ryan and his mustache he has mad Jared jealous.

Best Beard

Andy is on the right

Andy

As always Andy has again won this award without even trying.  I don't know what it is, but it seems like Andy can win this award without even trying.  You give him some adult beverage and two hours of thinking and he will somehow grow a beard Santa would be proud of.  I don't know if it will ever be possible to knock Andy off his best beard pedestal, but I encourage someone to try.

Most Badass

I know it is the same picture, but jimmy is in it

Jimmy

This year Jimmy one the most badass award for two major factors.  His ability to process a deer at record speeds, and then his even quicker ability to turn that processed deer into amazing food right in front of your eyes.  Jimmy with little help from both Jared and George (less help from Jared though) got a deer processed and cooking within a very short amount of time with little light and it being very cold outside.  What really put the icing on the cake though was how amazing he made that venison taste.  George and I ate it until it was all gone even though we were full it was that good.  Jared even had to pay for overeating a little later that night.  Jim should seriously start a guide service or something it was that good.  You will see it in the deer season video I will get to working on soon.  Thank goodness Jimmy covered for Jake in the cooking department, because I don't think anyone else could have done as well as him.

Do you see how amazingly good this looks?

 And now to the most treasured award of the BFL awards...

Black Forest Lodge Man Of The Year

George

As you know this award is given to the man who strives to be the manliest hunting man around.  This year that is George.  This award has been given to George for his ability to get deer even when he is not trying, and his ability to stay out later at night than me.  Here is a story of one of the deer George got:

It was Thanksgiving early afternoon and George picked up Jared just to go sit in the woods and spend a little time hanging out for the short time Jared was home.  George brought his puppy and Jared brought basically nothing.  Jared and George were visit, George's puppy was playing around in the leaves, and Jared was also playing around with some deer call stuff on his phone.  Somehow a deer comes upon George, Jared, and his George's puppy Bella.  George with his man of the year skills shoots it and it drops where it stood.  It was nothing short of amazement and Jared could not believe it.  That wasn't the end of George's thanksgiving day though.  Later that night he got another deer on another piece of land.  Two deer in one day is amazing!  Also it was very tasty thanks Jimmy!
Anyway, George wasn't done feeding everyone with his manly hunting skills even after getting two deer in one day, because on the last Sunday of deer season he decided two deer for the season wasn't enough and got three.  Yes, three deer!  That was not all though, George also went out with Jared to practice some trapping and then he built a fire for Ryan and Jared.  A good fire mind you here is a picture.

With all this amazingness George wins The BFL Man Of The Year Award.  Congrats George in being the manliest man this year in Quad Survival.

This concludes our Black Forest Lodge Awards for the year of 2012, but there is a video coming of the deer season and there are more pictures below for you to view of the Quad Survival members at the Black Forest Lodge.  Enjoy the pictures below

The old bus which was the original Black Forest Lodge

Jared walking back from hunting

Jared filling his pipe

George and Jared playing with traps practicing for when they really trap

Jared and George playing with more traps

Jared walking back from hunting again

Jake sharpening a knife with the knife sharpener he got Jared

Jared hunting with a cigar

Jared climbing down out of Jake's tree stand aka Big Dick's Buckhorn

Jared and Eric hunting below Jake's stand

Jared all to happy

Jake being himself

Jared still hunting and smiling

The BFL sign

Jared and George hunting

The Lincoln driving into the BFL

Ryan and Eric

Jimmy's head

One of George's deer again

Video of our end of summer shooting trip

First I apologize for how long this video took to upload, but there has been an ongoing family emergency that started at the beginning of the Summer and has taken a turn for the worst over the last month or so.  Due to that videos and blog posts have been few and far between.

I finally got the video up of Eric, Ryan, and I doing some shooting at the Indianhead Rifle and Pistol Club.  I brought my NAA Mini Revolver, Remington 870 Express Magnum in 20 gauge, Browning 20 Weight in 12 gauge, and my Remington 597 (we don't have any video of us shooting that).  It was fun, but we were all trying to rush through it due to me having to go to work that afternoon.  The last scene in the video with Eric shooting my mini revolver we were using .22 shotgun rounds or whatever you call them.  They are about the only kind of round that makes that gun fun shooting.  Other than that you can't hit the broadside of a barn with it, as you can see trying attempting to hit something with a regular .22 round in the video it is not very accurate.  I plan on making some more videos with the guns I own describing them a little then shooting them.  Here is the video enjoy.

I used my new laptop which had Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum on it and for some reason when it uploaded the video to YouTube it didn't upload the video in HD even though from what I understood I had it set up for HD.  The video saved in HD to the computer and in the program it said the video was in HD, but it didn't upload to YouTube that way.  If anyone knows how to get around this let me know, if not looks like I'm back to getting used to Open Shot on Ubuntu.  I find using Sony Vegas so far is more of a struggle to me.  The best way to describe how it works for me is this wonderful old Mac vs PC video.

Yeah that is basically how I feel trying to work with Sony Vegas.  Also Sony wtf is this Vaio Gate thing that is on the top of my screen that magically shows up when I'm up there it is quite annoying.  Alright I'm done ranting now everyone enjoy the videos.

Quad Survival's camping trip aka Ryan's tent shakedown

A few weeks ago Eric, Ryan, and I (Jared) went on a two night, wait O.K. two nights for me one night for Ryan and Eric camping trip on the Namekagon river at the Earl Landing.  I have camped at the earl landing quite a bit and I typically enjoy the experience.  In fact I had already camped there once this Summer.  The Earl landing has free campsites with a fire ring and picnic table and has a 3 night limit per spot on camping.  You can go to the landing and sign up ahead of time for a campsite if you want on a sheet of paper and so far I've had no trouble with people in my camp site I have signed up for (I hope that continues).

The main reason we went camping on this trip is that I had a few days off in a row, Eric really wanted to go camping, and Ryan got a new tent and wanted to try it out.  We ended up picking this location after talking Eric out of some crazy location where none of us could carry our gear to or something like that.  Anyway we got to the camp site early in the morning and set up our tents.  I put in my two crayfish traps and Eric put in his new minnow trap.  Eric and Ryan then decided to go fishing and I went tubing with my friends down the river.  I don't know what they did while I was gone so I can't write to much about it.  I got back from tubing and checked my crayfish traps and low and behold I caught a shiner minnow.  Not really what I wanted to catch so I let him go.  Eric and Ryan did a little bit more fishing and Eric came back with some smallmouth bass.  One of them was pretty nice as you can see in the picture.  Anyway, as true men Eric filleted the bass and we had a good old fashioned fish fry.  Eric added to the fish fry though some venison nuggets fried up which were amazing and the best food on the trip.  After that we decided to sit around the fit and I guess just talk.  Eric and Ryan decided they would have a long night discussing intellectual things.  I think they went to bed around 3 A.M.

The next day was rough for Ryan and Eric.  I checked my crayfish traps and caught a little turtle and let him go.  I spent most of the day convincing Eric and Ryan to stay another night, but they had enough camping for one day or something.  By afternoon I got Eric and Ryan going and we went to Hayward saw some sweet cars visited a friend, but that doesn't have to do with the outdoors.  We had venison nuggets again and I tried to convince Eric and Ryan to stay another night again, but they would have none of it and started packing up.  Just as they started packing up I turned on my weather radio and there was a storm coming in something like 5 minutes.  I informed Eric and Ryan and then went to my car and checked on my phone to confirm indeed a thunderstorm was coming.  Eric and Ryan decided to keep taking down their stuff anyway and ended up getting stuck in the storm.  Since my tent was the only one left up they all dove in it for the duration of the storm.  After it ended Eric and Ryan packed up and left.  I went to Spooner, got some food, went back to the tent, and spent the night in there sleeping with storms off and on.  In the morning I pulled my crayfish traps and they were empty.  I'm beginning to think crayfish don't exist anymore.  I then picked up my campsite and went to work.  That was the end of the camping trip.

The camping trip was pretty fun and the view from out campsite was as always beautiful.  Free camping and beautiful views reminds me of why I love Wisconsin.  Within the next few days I'll put up a blog post of Eric and I's next adventure which we did this last weekend.  Look for that soon until then here are pictures of our camping trip below.

My Tent

Ryan's new tent

Eric's overpriced hippie REI tent haha

The campsite

Eric and Ryan Fishing

Rough Morning

Breakfast

The boring way to start a fire

Being caught in a storm

My tent survived the storm and is the last tent set up

Campsite

Sitting around the fire

Sitting in the river

Ryan dressed quite interesting in front of his tent

caught inside due to the storm

The view of the river

Sitting in the river again

The bass Eric caught

End of camping burn everything fire

Eric making din din