venison recipes

[Joshie]

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[JT]

That sounds like an excellent excuse to go hang out in the woods and drink....

Throw in a bunch of loaded guns, and you've got a party!

-j

That's one of the main reasons that I quit hunting many years ago. Booze and guns and too much macho mixed together make for disasters ready to happen. I always had heard that 90% of the hunters were true sportsman and that 10% gave the rest a bad name. I found in my experience that those statistics were seriously close to being exactly the opposite of reality.____________

[PA Girl]

My family and hunting friends are the type the don't pick up a beer until the guns are tucked into bed (locked in the safe) for the night.

But there are plenty of stories in our local paper each season about some drunk idiot shooting himself in the foot (or worse).

[waterguy]

My wifes friends would always ask her how come she wasn't worried about me hunting and being in bars. She just told them that there are hunters and there are drinkers and I'm the former If you get up 2 hours before it gets light spend the day in the woods till it is dark you are in bed by8 oclock. It's the way my dad taught me to hunt and the way I did for my sons. I haven't seen the inside of a bar during hunting season since 1989 that year we filled up on opening weekend and the wifes didn't want us to come home right away so they could get their alone time.LOL As far as what we shoot or DNR tells us what we can if I have a anterless tag it is going on the first one I see. As my sons say Tender and tastie

[hoosierdaddy]

We had Cruz Bay Grill Rub on venison last night and it was the best steak we have ever had. I wish I would have bought the 16 oz container. Thanks Ruth.

[hoosierdaddy]

Something that is weird to me. I choose not to hunt, though I live in a rural area where deer are plentiful and many of my friends hunt. I like venison OK and often get it offered. Virtually everybody agrees that the best eating meat comes from younger deer. So my question is: Why does everybody always want to kill the most majestic members of the species? The bigger the buck and the bigger the rack, the more the "sportsman" wants to kill it. Why is that?

For most of us it is the challenge. The bucks with the bigger antlers are usualy the older male deer. They are hard to hunt because they are smart and are mostley active at night.

I am not sure why you have quotes around sportsman.

[JT]

Tom, I appreciate what you had to say. I quit hunting over 20 years ago for various reasons. In a western Virginia county that I used to hunt deer in, many of the hunters had a flask in their back pockets up in the tree stand and they called it their "patience".
Hoosierdaddy, don't get me wrong. I am not anti-hunting. I also live in an area where virtually everybody has either had car accidents, or close calls with deer. I refer to them as white-tailed rats and encourage their population control by hunters. I just find the majestic buck the least tasty and the most exciting to look at. I also am an avid bass fisherman. I understand the challange. I also understand that there is a B.S. ego gratification that comes with both the hunter's and fisherman's territory. The last deer that I shot was about 70 feet from me and I used a rifle that that I could hit a silver dollar at 100 yards with [Belgium made Browning BAR], and I gotta tell you it really wasn't much of a challange, nor especially satisfying. I get a lot more satisfaction out of bringing in a big smallmouth on lightweight tackle. I also like the fact that when I catch a big bass I can admire it and let it go. Just my take.

[Joshie]

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[chicagoans]

Something that is weird to me. I choose not to hunt, though I live in a rural area where deer are plentiful and many of my friends hunt. I like venison OK and often get it offered. Virtually everybody agrees that the best eating meat comes from younger deer. So my question is: Why does everybody always want to kill the most majestic members of the species? The bigger the buck and the bigger the rack, the more the "sportsman" wants to kill it. Why is that?

For most of us it is the challenge. The bucks with the bigger antlers are usualy the older male deer. They are hard to hunt because they are smart and are mostley active at night.

I am not sure why you have quotes around sportsman.

JT and hoosier: I was glad to see your posts because I never understood that either. Kind of like snorkeling -- I see a really beautiful fish, and I don't think "I want to kill that." Same thing with elk, deer, etc... I see a magnificent creature and I don't want to kill it, I want to photograph it and see it keep living. So it's good to get the perspective of the challenge hoosier mentions. (I haven't changed my mind -- I still don't want to kill them, I'd rather see them alive in their native habitat, but now I have a better understanding of another point of view.)

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[PA Girl]

Yeah, almost everyone I know has hit a deer.

I totalled my car a few years back when I hit a huge buck. The EMT crew were quite excited over the size of it. (I believe someone took it home.) I had two very near misses this year.

When I stilled lived at home, my dad hit eight in a 12 month period.

Yes, 8. Four at once and one of them went thru the open back passenger window. In that instance, the deer actually hit him. Two another time and the rest were one at a time.