It's 3:30 AM and I'm covered with blood. Ask me anything.

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BTW, it's not human blood, I've been chopping up and packaging meat for the freezer.

[DisgustedDemocrat]

1. You made me look!

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2. What kind of meat?

I am curious.

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3. Beef...

various big cuts (averaging 25-30 pounds each piece), made into steaks, hamburger, stewmeat, roasts, et cetera. Around 250 pounds processed all together since 9 PM. I'm tired and my back hurts. On the other hand, it cost me about $1.75 a pound plus my time, and the knowledge of what exactly is in that hamburger.

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4. What do you mean

Did you go cow hunting tonight?

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5. Nope, went to the meat store...

and bought three cases of coarsely butchered beef.

In other words, I brought home around 10 25-30 pound chunks of cow and cut it up myself.

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6. I love Beef

Why all of the blood and what state are you in.

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7. I'm in the mid-atlantic....

and butchering meat is bloody work. Sometimes, you just have to start whacking at it with a cleaver, there's no other efficient way to do it.

If a blood spatter technician ever looked in my kitchen, they'd freak. :)

[hlthe2b]

17. Wow, that's a lot of work...

Careful with that cleaver, though!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

8. Thank goodness

I thought maybe you shot yourself with one of your guns! *whew*

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9. Nah...if I'd shot myself....

I'd be at the hospital, not on DU. :)

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10. How many guns do you own

Do you hunt?

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12. I don't hunt....

and own "more than 5" guns. Frankly, I don't know how many I own, since stuff gets "lost" in the safes. My gun collection is worth more than my house is, and ranges from small, cheap handguns weighing maybe 5 ounces to very expensive (and legal) fully operational WWI and WWII crew-served belt-fed automatic weapons that weigh up to 150 pounds when set up.

I don't hunt because I don't like "working" while out in the woods. I've been considering taking it up, though, for the cheap meat aspect of it.

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13. I don't hunt either

I don't own any guns and it doesn't bother me if someone else owns them. Do you own any civil war guns?

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14. a few...

including a Sharps Cavalry carbine and a Sharps and Hankins breachloading carbine. They aren't cheap.

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15. Damn I would love to see them

Take some pictures and let us see them. I went to see Cold River last night and I love the Civil War era.

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16. Check your inbox...

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[nothingshocksmeanymore]

11. Good point

;-)