Shrooms of the day
Pennsylvania
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(Looks like) Sulfur shelfs. I found a tree with 30 pounds of them the other evening while out spotting deer. Picked a few to eat. Shake the dirt and bugs off, slice them thin and fry in butter. Great with back straps.
I ain’t eating those things. Theres about 4 more batches just like that
They're my favorite! Cut off against the tree or break them off. Cut the thicker stem portion off for making mushroom soup. Slice remainder in pcs and I Fry them. Chicken of the woods. Theyre too good to pass up! Check the bottom sides for bugs. If There are holes w/ bugs then its too late.
As I zoom in it appears theyre already too old:(
Bill, tell me where they are & I'll go get them tomorrow.
There were twice as many on the back side of the tree. They are nice and tender.
Upper make is a big township...wanna narrow it down a bit?
Ya a dead tree.
Just look for the dead tree...
If you want them bob I’ll pick them for you next time in
Mushrooms... now we're talking. Waddaya think I've bee doing since last winter? lol
Stood at the sink cleaning sheepshead for over four hours yesterday.
10 Sheepshead around one oak tree
Do... Not... Eat... These... slim chance you'll survive doing so.
All stuff I've found the last couple days. This cloudy rainy weather has all types popping up all over.
Puffballs. Edible.
I have a lot more pics but I won't bore you guys with them. I'm starting long weekend tomorrow. Cool weather... more rain the past few days... been overcast.... shrooms are already blooming... this looks VERY promising. I haven't even been to my best spots yet... got a month's vacation coming with squirrel season. Does life get any better? This is my time of year baby... and this round will be a great one. This is life. And life is good.
Someone said that bow season starts soon?... Seriously, honestly... I had no idea it was so close until just this week.... and I don't care.
...about deer/archery season. I'll be out there most every day, but... ah nevermind.
Jeff, I'm doing more hunting for mushrooms than I am for deer. I am carrying a bow, but I never leave home without my shrooming bag and a knife.
Me neither Bob. I carry an empty backpack... with many empty bags, a knife and a bottle of water.
I gotta remember to take my big knife for sheeps and sulfurs this weekend, the pocketknife doesn't reach in under them big ones too good.
NOT........BORED........with PICTURES........ Anything that can help us amateurs look out for the good ones. I know one oak stump that has lots of sulphur shelfs. Also hesitant about picking shrooms......so nice close-ups of the "good ones" is very helpful. So please, post away....
From: Jeff Durnell
27-Sep-18
Someone said that bow season starts soon?... Seriously, honestly... I had no idea it was so close until just this week.... and I don't care.
REALLY Jeff? I start getting excited every year starting around Labor Day..............................then it's just a month away from the Statewide Archery opener. I don't think you can call yourself a bowhunter if you forget when opening day is! ;-)
I'll Just keep quiet here:)
That would be a 1st Roy! ;-)
Come on guys all mushrooms are edible,, some only once!!
Well, I don't worry much about opening day since the season is 6 weeks long and I'm on vacation for 4 of them. Beginning Oct 11th to be exact. That date I DO know :^)
Man, I hit the mushroom jackpot today. Found 21 sheepshead this morning, oysters, boletes, puffballs, two trees covered in young sulfur shelfs... and my freezer is already full.
Oysters. Delicate. Yummy.
Bowsite has now been renamed Schroomsite.com.
Deer eat them too you know.
Oh that makes it all better then...
Today was the first day of bow season right? I was shroom hunting of course :^) I was courteous of those who were bow hunting and didn't go into the woods near them. Found 20 Sheepshead, dozens of boletes, 10-12 Chanterelles(usually a july/aug mushroom), more sulfurs, a big cauliflower mushroom. Found 65 Sheepshead so far. I did see two doe, a handful of squirrels, two small flocks of turkeys, and buck today. The freezer needs meat... but there's just no room. Gonna have to fire up the dehydrators.
Jeff, check your messages.
Pictures emailed. Hope the ID comes out good...I have about 4 pounds of them in fridge.
Not a mushroom guy. What is this?thanks Ed
Laetiporus sulphureus, known as sulphur shelf or chicken of the woods. That one looks prime, cut if off from its root. Google recipes and enjoy it. It freezes well.
Just want to know if you guys use fixed blade knives or those expandables when you cut your mushrooms from the tree? :)
Fixed big knife for cutting free sheepshead and sulfurs, so I can get all the way under them or behind them.
These Sheepshead are from this morning.
I like my sulfur shelfs younger than that one Teeton. The older they get, the tougher they get. I would pass on that one.
Dad found this Lions Mane mushroom....also edible.... more than once.
....and some Woods Ear, or jelly ear mushrooms.
Found this beauty tonight in the backyard
Again... Pristine bears head tooth. Those things are cool and relatively rare. Enjoy!
What a great shroomin day. Amazing. I found 48 Sheepshead, loaded up on oysters, and found some more sulfurs. Had to leave most of them behind because 2 crossbow hunters killed my mojo. They were all dressed in spankin new gear, head nets and everything... looked to be right off the cover of Cabelas. Hey Pittz, camo doesn't hide you if you don't allow it. They really thought they were hiding though... funny, standing there on the ground moving, pointing, twitching, talking... the critters were hid or had high tailed it out of there. They never saw me 50 yards away, peeking at em from behind a big hickory tree. I snuck out of there too and made a big loop through the puckerbrush back to the truck so they wouldn't see me. Going back tomorrow for the shrooms.
Nice finds, Jeff. Found these cute ones growing off this tree....no idea what they are, but had gills.....I left em' there to grow.
Nice pic Josh. I saw some of those too. Don't know what they are either.
Here's what I brought back today... and I only kept the best of what I found. I easily left twice that many out there.
RC's Link
The Pleated Inkcap is generally regarded as inedible, and its small size and thin flesh mean that there is little temptation to try eating this insubstantial mushroom. (Some sources suggest that these mushrooms may contain psychoactive substances, in which case they should be treated as being toxic and potentially dangerous.)
Thanks, RC....I'll keep them out of my soup!! ;-)
Nice little harvest today. Will be a nice addition to the elk burgers we are making for friends and family tomorrow.
Elk meat courtesy of this bull I shot on the last evening of my eight day archery hunt in Wyoming a couple weeks ago. :-)
Way to go, Steke!! Congrats!!
Way to keep this thread about BOWHUNTING Steke! ;-) And congrats on the bull!
Yes, awesome! Great mushrooms! Are those cinnabar chants or regular? Thinking maybe the color of the pic is just off a bit. The others look a little dark in tone too.
Thanks guys. Good eye Jeff. They are cinnabars and the color is off a bit. There were loads of them about a month ago then a smaller second wave now. Dale, I had to settle for a dink at the last hour. ;-)
A small portion of my chickens today:)
A small portion of my chickens today:)
Picked about #8 off a dead tree during a small walk today:) Gonna try throwing the thicker parts is a smoker for smoked wild mushroom soup~(8o)
I found 8 blonde ones around this tree yesterday.
And these a short distance away...
Had a good year so far with chickens and hens.
Steke, congrats on the beautiful elk!
Can I store hens in the fridge until the next day or do I need to cut them up right away
You can keep them covered in the fridge for a couple of days if you can't get to them right away. I kind of have an assembly line of Hens going right now. Whole ones in the fridge. Three big bowls of them broken down and debugged waiting a good cleaning. And then I cleaned another big batch yesterday and had them in the dehydrator overnight.
That looks good Bob. The wife made Sheepshead scalloped potatoes with butterflied backstraps two days ago. It was good too.
I found another 15 lb of Hen of the Woods this morning on my run. I've surpassed the 60 pound mark on Hen of the Woods Which I harvested. It looks like I also found a boatload of shrimp of the Woods which I just positively identify, so now I have to go back and harvest those either after work or first thing tomorrow morning. I ain't seen crap for deer but I sure am finding a hell of a lot of mushrooms.
Jeff - Where are the backstraps located on a mushroom? ;-)
Quick question, will shrooms keep coming back year after year in the same spots? 2 years ago, there was an old rotting oak stump that had sulfur shelfs on it. Didn't check it last year. This year, strolled on by while I was scouting and nothing....nada.... I guess someone could have picked it clean...
Bob, I think I've been seeing a BUNCH of those Shrimps, but I haven't looked them up yet and am not too familiar with them. Can you post pics? If my suspicions are correct... they're everywhere right now.
Justin, the simple answer is, sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. Mostly, it depends on the conditions... temps, moisture, and others. I know of two trees that can grow 40 - 50 pounds each of Sulfurs when they grow, but they average doing so about every 2 to 3 years. I don't think they CAN'T grow every year, but rather believe they COULD if the conditions were just right... but usually, we don't get the perfect conditions. It seems to me it depends on the timing of the rain mostly. Both trees grew them this year, as our rain was regular, a few times a week within the needed right time... and I left them go because I just don't have room in the freezer, and still have a ton of them. I watched them bloom, until eventually others cut them.
If someone else had cut the ones you were waiting for, you would have seen the white remnants on their bases on the tree. They can dry up and stay there, visible for a long time. The remnants of those I cut were still there, very visible, over two years later, until they grew again.
Should get caught up on cleaning shrooms today or tomorrow. Glad I bought that big dehydrator a couple years ago. I'm seeing lots of squirrels and deer sign in my travels. Hopefully I can get out after them later in the week.
I also found a species of stinkhorn.
Found this guy, but it was too old.
Found this guy, but it was too old.
Yep Bob, that's what I've been seeing. I suspected that's what they were.
I got the last of my Hens in the drier just now. Whew, that's too much like work. Guess I can go hunt em again tomorrow :^)
From: PAbowhunter1064
09-Oct-18
Jeff - Where are the backstraps located on a mushroom? ;-)
LMBO Josh!!!!!!!!!!!!! : )
Found 4 more Hens today and some Honey mushrooms. All catch and release. I had 4 ticks on me too.
At the base of an oak tree near one of my treestands.
Geez! How many lbs do you guys have so far???
Couple Puffies while cutting grass at the mill:) and now I have 2 big reishi and my eyes on 4 more that are still young.
Rut, I have about 80lbs of sheepshead. Tonight was my last harvest of the season for them. I'm hunting some others.
I haven't found any puffballs at all.
Look down, Bob. Look down. Lmfao
There's a puffball between RC's ears.
Pfuuball,, LOL You eat some bad mushrooms, Bobby?
So....................................what's the bag limit on wild mushrooms??? ;-)
As many bags as you can carry.
LOL! Looks like you boys can carry quite a load! :)
Ya they are both loaded with it...:)
Maitake steak parmigiana.
Weather sucks, won'thunt in the rain. So...making Hen of the Woods soup.
Says campbells on the bowl...
Campbell's is a client of my wife.
I'd love to try harvesting wild, edible mushrooms. As seen in the many types shown here. But, a lot depends on their colors, and since that's a big issue with me, I guess it's for the best that I don't go a'harvesting. That Clint Eastwood movie where he ate mushrooms kinda sticks in my noggin.
Hen of the Woods mushroom soup with leeks.
Yeah! Good stuff! Here's where I am in shrooms just now. My ten year old grandson and I drive very slooooly to wherever we are headed for a day of outdoors, he sees them, and can now identify 12 choice edibles faster than I can. Yep, we eat very well here:)