Sounds great that you are preparing to hunt, it's better quality meat and you know it's pure. I don't hunt and neither does @silvergingerman but like you he does have interest in learning and going on a few hunts with friends. Meat is so expensive nowa days as well, if you can somehow supply your own is a bonus. The flavors in wild meats is delish. I have tried all kinds of wild game, elk is certainly up there as one of the greats.
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Ah that's good, I'm not trying to go full kodiak and stuff but trying to get familiarity with being able to successfully go out there and hunt game. Things get pretty sketchy as of late so just knowing that you should prepare is a step lots aren't taking.
What's EMA? I couldn't find anything that I would say is accurate for the meaning lol.
I could definitely find Elk at a local butcher here in the Boston area. There’s one that has all kinds of exotic stuff like boar, alligator, ostrich, kangaroo and others. It was crazy to see it all lol frozen of course but still in stock!
This is Elk Martial Arts
It's like MMA but elk-style. It's best left to the professionals like elks and Rebecca (not her real name) and myself. Of course, we could easily share the hidden secrets and ways of the elk with others...There's an initiation though.
Rebecca and I devised this elkish form of combat through keenly observing elk fighting over the ladeez and we now deploy it at times of great need, or when we feel like laying an elk-beat-down upon some poor unsuspecting person.
So, I'm sure this explains everything. :)
@ladybug146, anything to add?
Hahah I thought it was something special I wasn't aware of. Sounds like some awesome competition to watch, just be careful of those big pointy things, they tend to do some damage!
I can be a good student to learn the ways of the elk masters, where can one sign up?
I think you'll be an asset to the EMA and will have many valuable elements to bring to the table. It's no picnic mind, not for the feint hearted or weak of mind, but from what I know of you, you're a man of quality, hard working and with attention to detail...I think you'll take to EMA like a duck to water, or a G-dog to corn chips and salsa. 😁
mmmm....corn chips and salsa...
Lol...My kryptonite.
Lol, I can picture you wearing a bearskin jacket and buffalo horn hat running around the woods going yipee-kye-ye with that "full kodiak" comment. LMFAO. On a serious note tho, it's not a bad skill to have especially with all the uncertainty. When there might not be much income to put food on the table, getting wild game and learning how to forage can go a long way into the comfort of your family. Growing we didn't have much and I grew up eating off the land a lot. It's delish and can't compare to supermarket food. Learn about edible plants and wild vegetables and roots. Many of them are also medicinal.
Lol, EMA is an inside joke between big bro G-Dog and I , it stands for Elk Martial Arts head butting competition that goes down in a mma style fight.
He does have quite the assortment of wild meat, you are lucky! I went to a local hunting and fishing award thingy once and I got to try any local wild game conceivable from ground, avian and in the lake. Besides that we do have some in supermarkets and local farmers. We have a pretty wide assortment.
In Washington and Idaho it's illegal to provide game animals to the retail market. I'm guessing laws like that are why you can't find elk at the local market.
I'm glad you asked about EMA. I was going to pretend I knew.
It is mostly illegal for regular people but there are a few exceptions , it has to go thru a meat inspection agency and has to be butchered by someone with a special permit for retail game as well before hitting the market and mostly only restaurants can serve it. A lot of them are also farmed here and typically those we get on the retail market. I think for the most part, it's not that it's illegal, it's just too much of a pain and costly to get the proper permits in place to set up for retail consumption that only handful is willing to do it. You can still buy them on farms by the quarter/half animal. I found both an elk farm and a bison farm I just need to find others to buy with because I can't store all that meat. Also may have found a source for boar as well.
That's why I used the pic I did, I knew EMA would mess with a few people! Give me and G-dog some entertainment!
We have several herds of Bison here and some of them are private, and available to purchase meat or animals for that matter. I don't know of any commercial herds in Washington, but I do know several ranches that have beefalo for sale.
I"ve always liked being the entertainment for the evening :)
Here too, one of our local supermarket started to carry it at an ok-ish price as well. Never had beefalo tho, I image the fat content must be a little higher. We have the bison herds at Elk Island, Wood Buffalo & Banff National Park all under protection and a few private ranches around the province for consumption.
Don't worry, we wont make you outrun any bison tonight as our escape route ;)
Ahahahahaha. You remembered! I'm the bait.
We have a fairly large herd on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and a smaller herd up near Flagstaff. I actually applied for a position with the office (NFS) that oversees the Flagstaff herd. Turns out I didn't have near enough biology in my background, though I had plenty of (cattle) herd experience.
awwe, that's unfortunate, it would have been a good opportunity to learn more. Have you checked near-by farms maybe they need a hand, it's not the same but you would still get to learn...might also help you for the position you want.
Of course I remembered! I enjoy the chats into degeneracy we all have on hive!
I have a meme-it contest going, you should come join the fun.
They had a herd in San Antonio when I lived there and in the middle of it, you could see a lone zebra running with them.
Hello?
Texas and New Mexico both have some 'big game' ranches. Lots of exotic animals that you can hunt for a (big) fee.
I know the woman who was the game biologist at White Sands Nuclear Reservation, NM. New Mexico decided it would be a really good idea to stock some African exotics and charge $10,000 per permit for exotic buffalo and antelope. About 4 hunts worth and ALL the animals figured out they weren't bothered on White Sands. So the Federal Gov has a huge herd of exotics on one of the most secure installations on earth:)
They've hired African specialists for the herds. She posted a photo of the guys with a Cape Buffalo. It had wandered in someplace where they didn't want it so they had a hunt. Amazing stuff.
Haha!! That is such an amazing, yet, believable story! I loved catching glimpses of exotics out West.
White Sands National Park ( not the military site) was where we went surfing on the dunes!
You are such a vast pit of information, Tom. Cool stuff!
I’m not embarrassed about asking stuff I know I don’t know lol wasn’t going to try and assume EMA wasn’t something about aliens or anything, so I figured I would ask!
Not surprising, they are kind of odd up in those Pacific Northwest areas about that stuff!
I agree with that assessment. We are kind of odd, and the oddity seems to have stuck with me even though I've lived in AZ for 20 years.