Any hunters/hunter wives?

[booker81]

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A LOT of hunters are very big on helping others learn to hunt - afterall, the progression of technology, factory farming and the move away from living from the land seriously impacts hunting, along with the whole gun control thing. We WANT to teach folks - the more who show interest in hunting, the longer that hunting will survive as legal.

I learned to process (cut up) deer by one of the older guys who leased our property to hunt. I've also taken meat classes at university and worked in a food safety company - I'm pretty solid in my meat skills

I had a post once upon a time somewhere of how I butcher a deer....give me a few to find and move it to my blog

ETA: How to butcher a deer. Obviously graphic pics....on how to butcher a deer...:

http://ramblingredneckmom.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-to-butcher-deer-graphic-pics-duh.html

 

[NaomiSarah]

That's great! And I agree - we WANT other people to hunt, we don't worry about giving tricks to the "competition"... I just wish more people realized how DELICIOUS venison is when prepared right.

They prepared some on the Food Network here a while ago, and I heard a bunch of "ew" from the other people watching... give me a break! Venison is the leanest, cleanest meat I've ever prepared or eaten, and their diet is CERTAINLY more varied, healthy and natural than a cattle herd.

...Besides, if you mix venison with PORK, no one can taste the difference...

 

[wekiva bird]

Deer season starts on aug 15 -jan 1 in parts of south carolina .DH and i hunt 90%of those days at ft. jackson ,we have help a lot of new army folks there in the past how to clean a deer etc. i love the deer meat and wild pig, doves. we do mosts of our own processing, but we also we use campbell custom deer processing for our cooked stuff. like summer sauage, deer bacon and snack sticks,etc. we both love to bow hunt ,it is less clean up and less trauma on the meat and less waste.
for those that have surgery or can't pull back a reg. bow , i gotting a Draw-loc put on one of my bows a few years back. i got deer with it too. when i got hurt ( neck, back , and shoulder etc)i could not pull my reg. bow back for two years.

crossbow did not appeal for me either.

 

[Cats Critters]

I hunt, my one and only deer was a 8 point buck

 

[NaomiSarah]

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[fortarcher]

My husband and I are avid hunters. Only hut what we will eat. My husband yote hunts some but I dont. Not going to eat a yote. I am 1 of 2 women who deer hunt in our group. Every deer I pull up on I kill. I can not say that for some of the guys.lol

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Just came home from work to find that hubby made a big batch of elk stroganof....yummmmmmm!!!!!!

 

[MaggieRae]

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Gosh, that sounds good. I love elk.

 

[greeneggsnham]

I LOVE to hunt but only for deer. I don't ever shoot anything I won't eat...well unless it's eating my chickens first and then I still feel horrible about it.

 

[AKsmama]

Hunter's wife here! My DH hunts deer and turkeys mostly, although he does dove hunt a bit, and went out to Texas in Feb. to hunt wild pig. (He got a piglet and a decent-sized boar.) He always takes the opening day of deer season off work. He recently told me I needed to cook up the rest of the venison cube steak we have in the freezer so we'll have room for more this fall

I very rarely eat pork, so I don't eat the wild pig, but we chow down on the venison. DH uses up a lot of the ground venison to make jerky. Yeah, I don't get it- all those people out there shouting about eating organically want to turn their noses up at venison? You can't get much more organic than "free-range" deer