we eat venison almost exclusively. I will buy a steak bout once a month, porkchops every now and then. Wife can make anything from venison from meatloaf to tacos. I try to put 5-6 deer in the freezer every year and that about fills it up.

Im probably gonna get bashed for this post. But I really just don't get it. I like venison just as much as the next man. However, it's definitely not something I would eat EVERYDAY. No way in hell I would fill an entire freezer with it. I'd get burned out so easily. I'm fresh out of college. The only reasonable explanation I can think of is to have some extra meat in the back of the freezer when funds get low. But an entire freezer ??? I know it's just my opinion. But I'd really like to hear an explanation from someone who makes this one of thier hunting goals.

Im probably gonna get bashed for this post. But I really just don't get it. I like venison just as much as the next man. However, it's definitely not something I would eat EVERYDAY. No way in hell I would fill an entire freezer with it. I'd get burned out so easily. I'm fresh out of college. The only reasonable explanation I can think of is to have some extra meat in the back of the freezer when funds get low. But an entire freezer ??? I know it's just my opinion. But I'd really like to hear an explanation from someone who makes this one of thier hunting goals.

we eat venison almost exclusively. I will buy a steak bout once a month, porkchops everyr. now and then. Wife can make anything from venison from meatloaf to tacos. I try to put 5-6 deer in the freezer every year and that about fills it up.

We eat deer meat for about 80% of our meat. We do buy pork but also use wild pig if we have some and buy steaks and occasionally a pack of burger for certain things. I hunt to kill stuff even though I love watching them more then shooting now but my son and wife still love to kill them. I guess you get tired of beef, pork and chicken? We get ours made into burger, roast, cube, stew, and stir fry. How is that different then buying those things in beef except we kill it and you go to the grocery store and buy it.

we eat venison almost exclusively. I will buy a steak bout once a month, porkchops every now and then. Wife can make anything from venison from meatloaf to tacos. I try to put 5-6 deer in the freezer every year and that about fills it up.

I understand if that's a bulk of your meat. All I'm getting at is that why limit your self ? If venison is your #1 meat cool. What about the other choices to keep variety in your diet beef (venison), pork ( wild hogs) chicken/turkey (wild turkey, quail, grouse) if you know what I mean. But I'm stressing it's only a question.

my wifes cubed steak in gravy is better than anything bought in a store. Period.

I don't eat it to save money, no telling what that meat costs. I eat it because I prefer it to beef.

Im probably gonna get bashed for this post. But I really just don't get it. I like venison just as much as the next man. However, it's definitely not something I would eat EVERYDAY. No way in hell I would fill an entire freezer with it. I'd get burned out so easily. I'm fresh out of college. The only reasonable explanation I can think of is to have some extra meat in the back of the freezer when funds get low. But an entire freezer ??? I know it's just my opinion. But I'd really like to hear an explanation from someone who makes this one of thier hunting goals.

I eat it because I like to kill deer and I eat what I kill. I do not prefer it to beef. I do replace beef with deer meat in most of the recipes i cook not for flavor but beacuse we have it in the freezer. I don't prefer turkey to store bought either but i like to turkey hunt, so I eat wild turkey.

I eat it because I like to kill deer and I eat what I kill. I do not prefer it to beef. I do replace beef with deer meat in most of the recipes i cook not for flavor but beacuse we have it in the freezer. I don't prefer turkey to store bought either but i like to turkey hunt, so I eat wild turkey.

I don't eat it to save money, no telling what that meat costs. I eat it because I prefer it to beef.

Im probably gonna get bashed for this post. But I really just don't get it. I like venison just as much as the next man. However, it's definitely not something I would eat EVERYDAY. No way in hell I would fill an entire freezer with it. I'd get burned out so easily. I'm fresh out of college. The only reasonable explanation I can think of is to have some extra meat in the back of the freezer when funds get low. But an entire freezer ??? I know it's just my opinion. But I'd really like to hear an explanation from someone who makes this one of thier hunting goals.

hed give me 5 of them. Hed say.."son, i expect you to kill 5 deer" if you missed or wounded a deer you wer subject to get your butt tore up...no questions asked.

Im probably gonna get bashed for this post. But I really just don't get it. I like venison just as much as the next man. However, it's definitely not something I would eat EVERYDAY. No way in hell I would fill an entire freezer with it. I'd get burned out so easily. I'm fresh out of college. The only reasonable explanation I can think of is to have some extra meat in the back of the freezer when funds get low. But an entire freezer ??? I know it's just my opinion. But I'd really like to hear an explanation from someone who makes this one of thier hunting goals.

This is me in a nutshell!

damn, intense.

I don't eat it to save money, no telling what that meat costs. I eat it because I prefer it to beef.

I started seriously filling the freezer back in the late 70s, early 80s hunting a DMP property in Baldwin county with literally hundreds of doe tags. Then we got a few doe days, then more, then 2 does a day. Never bought beef. Ate venison almost every day, sometimes breakfast and dinner. Ate a lot of bream, crappie, bass, Spanish and king mackerel. Gave up on the mackerel due to mercury concerns. Every year bought a couple of turkeys, a few chickens, and some pork butts for the BGE. Unlike the mackerel, there is no data showing anything nasty in venison. Low fat, high protein. And a much more humane treatment for the animal--no nasty feed lot, no hormones or antibiotics, and none of the stress of a slaughterhouse. Just meandering around, then bang/flop.
Now that we live in Oregon, my wife and I can take a total of 2 deer per year. When I finish boning out a deer, there isn't enough red meat left to feed a coyote, and I keep the liver, heart, and kidneys too. We do buy some Pacific wild-caught salmon and steelhead, along with Dungeness crab, but most of our red meat is still venison.

I am definitely not one to fill the freezer, but in most years I will eat at least 2 deer, but this year for the first time in 15 years and only the second time in my life that I can remember I will not be eating any deer meat due to my lack of ability in killing one lol.

I eat it because I like to kill deer and I eat what I kill. I do not prefer it to beef. I do replace beef with deer meat in most of the recipes i cook not for flavor but beacuse we have it in the freezer. I don't prefer turkey to store bought either but i like to turkey hunt, so I eat wild turkey.

This exactly at our house. Other than a good ribeye and pork chops we eat deer. Haven't bought store burger in more years than I can remember.

my wifes cubed steak in gravy is better than anything bought in a store. Period.

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.

my wifes cubed steak in gravy is better than anything bought in a store. Period.

Venison is the most expensive meat in our freezer. The fillets and rib-eyes from baby show calves don’t cost nearly as much

I understand what people mean by this, but last year I killed 3 on land that I hunted for free, with a bow that I've owned for 4-5 years now, without having to buy new arrows, and processed it all myself. There really wasn't any cost other than my license.

Again, I understand why people say it, but it doesn't HAVE to be expensive.

If your time is valuable to anyone (you, your family, your employer, your kids, your spouse) it has to be expensive. If you buy any supplies, bow, tree stand, bullets, arrows, flashlight, binoculars, camera, fuel Hunting is expensive