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osage outlaw:
I'm sure not all deer processors are the same but the ones I have seen didn't impress me at all. Deer bodies piled up or hanging packed together. You might have been careful not to rupture the stomach and bladder when you field dress it but the deer next to yours might be covered in nasty stuff. And you can't be 100% sure you are getting back the meat from the deer you dropped off. My neighbors used to process deer. They didn't keep the meat separated and just gathered up some packages to fill an order. Somewhere I've got a picture of a big pile of deer at their place.
BowEd:
Yes deer are'nt moving as well as they could here either OO.They will though.A few but mostly other critters within bow range like squirrels and possum so far.Got busted walking back to the house about dark....lol.Think it was a small buck.I really would like some cooler weather.
I used to think buck deer did'nt taste as well as does back in the muzzle loader shooting days,but I gotta say that 5 year old buck I shot last year tastes as good as any does I've eaten.I cut a little beef or pork fat with the hamburger though and the loins and back quarter steaks and roasts are straight deer.
bjrogg:
When our girls where younger they knew "they didn't like venison ". My wife would cook a vinison roast and a beef roast together. I'd smile to Myself as our girls would always take the venison and leave the beef saying how good the beef was.
As for the rut, I've never been able to hunt it allways to busy then. The only deer I remember not tasting great was one old buck my brother got in the U.P. I,m not sure if it was what they eat up there and I don't know how it was processed that was when I lived in Detroit area. I used to think the does taste better as Ed said but I don't think so anymore and the buck usally have more meat. We allways process our own same way Osage does. It's nice to have an old fridge in our shop for just such occasions. The deer around here eat better than the cattle most of the year and they taste very similar to beef but you don't want to over cook them
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
PS now our girls "know they love venison and can't wait for the back straps" I usually make a lot of jerky and I gotta hide it good or it's all gone as fast as I can make it.
Bjrogg
BowEd:
Lordy....They'll probably have to teach their husbands how to eat venison properly....lol.Once I had a whole deer made into pepper sticks....Kind of expensive I know,but man did I make lots of friends!!!
I cook practically all my sectioned back straps and roasts in the crock pot slowly with a cup of onion soup mix in there and veggies.Very very tasty!!!Robin loves it.Hope I don't start a cooking forum thread here now.....lol.
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