Hunting Thread

I mostly make stew out of my ground venison. I'd suggest burgers in a frying pan with a layer of bacon grease to be sure it's not too dry. Chili is also good, but chili will really hide the flavor. Once you open the bag, it should be obvious whether it has any fat.

Brutul, I don't know where you are, but odds are they suddenly realized they had too many does. Do you get multiple ruts every year? That shit is bad on the bucks. When I was young in texas they basically didn't allow us to shoot does and we'd easily get 3 or 4 ruts a year. Poor bucks were fucking so much and eating so little they could barely stand up by spring.

Unfortunately, sometimes those are political decisions and not sound wildlife management decision.

Oh and sludig, on the way home last night I was thinking about your elkburger. Salibury steak would be good too if you know how to make that. I don't, which is why I didn't think about it at first.

Hunted and Fished everything that exists on the West Coast from South Oregon to Alaska as a kid up until I was 18. Father is a commercial fisherman who also loves hunting and fishing in his spare time. Along with shooting trap/skeet (which I do actually enjoy).

Still go out and kill shit with him whenever I am visiting. The man is extremely skilled at seemingly all kinds of fishing/hunting which is both a curse and a blessing because it never takes very long (he doesn't even call it fishing he calls it catching, for example). All of my friends growing up spoke about fishing all weekend and not catching shit. Totally foreign concept to me as I have never not caught the limit for myself/the group in mere hours. So we never got to just hang out very long.

My Brother in law is hunting obsessed but hilariously awful at it. Pretty sure he just likes the drinking aspect of hunting.

Always hated it and found it incredibly fucking boring. So I don't bother anymore. I can still filet, dress and prepare fish, birds and elk at warp speed though!

Does anyone have any favorite ways to cook backstrap and tenders? We usually fry it. This past weekend my wife wrapped it in bacon and broiled it. One time she put it in a jalapeno with cream cheese and wrapped with bacon. That was delicious, but we figured out it was just as good without the venison and a lot less work.

Anyone got anything else they like to do with it?

Ortega said:

Walked right on top of a 2x2 mule deer today that had its rear legs blown off..... I put the poor thing out of its misery, but it really sucks to see a good deer go to waste. I just could not risk harvesting the animal given the stiff penalties and how easy it is to fabricate such a story (3 Pt minimum on one side here in Washington state). If any of you are deer hunting make sure you count those horns and track your wounded game down!

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Do the game wardens donate that meat to anyone? They don't do it around here anymore because (hell I don't really know why) but where I grew up you could call the game warden with an animal like that and it would be butchered and fed to the homeless.

Lots of people shoot things and don't even want the meat. I'm talking about the canned hunts or the business meeting type hunts where big wig executives are hosted on someones 40,000 acre weekend ranch. Fortunately on those hunts, there's always someone to take the meat and put it to good use.