We don't eat it as much. My wife is not a huge fan of venison but I give a good bit away to patients, friends, and family. However I know one guy who has not bought meat from a store in so long he can't remember and the only meat they eat is venison. He told me once that it takes 13 deer to feed his family for one year. I like it but dang, I got to have a rib eye at some point! I try to put 2 deer a year in the freezer and I give most of it away.

Dr. B

Yes I did kill 6 total all on public but I wasn't obsessed with filling my freezer. I only kept maybe 3 deer. I only eat a little bit of it. The rest is taken by various family members. I eat what I can't give away because it's no point in wasting food boss

What public land do you hunt?

I'm pretty sure most of the time, people are using that as a term and not a literal statement. So when I say, "I want to fill my freezer", I'm saying "I want to get some deer in there to last me the year, but not be the only thing I eat."

Also freezers come in many different sizes.

I hunt Tuskegee national forest. I hope you are right Jono!

Could be a matter of heritage for some. I have a meat freezer and a vegetable freezer. I put up vegetables out of the garden, which costs me more than i could buy them for at the store, i put up about 3 deer a year, which costs me more than ribeye steak if you consider all that goes into it. Im a hunter and a farmer so this is how i live. I always say my son will not be the first walker man to ever starve to death. Im just doing my part to keep a lifestyle going.

I have family members, specifically my father and father-in-law who's families relied on hunting, fishing, farming and trading goods to get what they needed to survive. They would butcher a hog, smoke and hang the meat once or twice a year, but most of what they ate was wild game. This is how my people lived, not that long ago. So yes, it's heritage for some of us.

Have we gotten that far from what hunting was originally all about? I'd rather have free range wild game, specifically those animals that don't feed on GMO AG crops with herbicide/pesticides used year after year. I can tell you, the only red meat in my freezer right now is white tail deer of the Tennessee and Alabama variety!

Now I probably don't need deer meat to sustain me or my family but we eat our share. Years ago after my father had open heart surgery, his cardiologist told him to limit the red meat unless it was venison. Dr. told him he could eat all of that he wanted. I can't say it is the only red meat I eat, but it is the majority. I've got to break down and have a good ribeye every now and then though.

It's the only reason I hunt. I eat it for health reasons. I eat chicken, salmon , and tuna. Every now and then pork chops come from the store. No beef at my house. I eat a beef steak a couple of times a year.

We eat 2-3 a year. We get breakfast sausage, cubed, ground , smoked sausage and 2 or 3 roast. Sure does help the grocery bill and better for you.

My daughter and I together killed 2 bucks and 4 does this season. That is about average. The bucks did not have great racks, but were mature.. I do get a little smoked sausage made after we get enough burger. Substitute seafood and chicken for the ribeye. I almost forgot those 2 gobblers I get most years.

Well to revisit one of my posts only to say dang I wish I would've filled the freezer. Ain't killed not one deer since the season started. I ain't got no meat left not even a link of summer sausage lol

It's an additive in our house too. We get plenty of other meat off the farm.

We do too. But no deer smh

We will eat around 2 a year. Its healthier, it helps on the grocery bill but most of all we just like it as good if not better except for Ribeyes.

Holy thread resurrections these days Batman....

Better eat them before CWD gets them.

Sounds great! When we eating?

we eat venison every other day at my house 4 or 5 deer last us all year i mainly get it as burger some cubed and the wife makes spaghetti, hamburger helper, meatloaf, pretty much everything you do with beef. if i didnt fill up the freezer every year shed complain about having to buy groceries when Ive paid for a hunting club. I dont get burned out on it we just prepare it alot of different ways.

I replied in February, but we are doing better this year. Had my best season ever last year, and we had beef exactly once at home this year. I didn't even run out of backstrap!

Already got one in South Carolina, and about to start a group of Texas trips.