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Re: Filling the freezer.....why ? [Re: Zay334] #2413231
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Originally Posted by Zay334
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.

Some would say the same for beef. If i dont fill the freezer every year the wife gripes about why i spend all that money on hunting club dues etc and we still have to buy hamburger. We eat almost exclusively deer meat, only time i buy meat at the store is if i want a steak or fried chicken. Not to mention its about as healthy a red meat as you can get my cardiologist asked if i eat alot of red meat once when i said only deer he immediately said oh well thats nit bad for you.

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Re: Filling the freezer.....why ? [Re: Zay334] #2413253
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I've got two freezers. Between the farm raised beef and deer meat, they're both almost full.
I've got just enough room left for about 60# or 80# of wild pork and a couple of turkeys.
By November they'll both be empty.


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Re: Filling the freezer.....why ? [Re: Zay334] #2413262
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About 5 deer a year takes care of us. Anything we'd use a cow for, we use good old venison for. Tacos, spaghetti sauce, burgers, grilled backstrap, roast etc. The only red meat we buy is a good fatty steak.


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Re: Filling the freezer.....why ? [Re: Zay334] #2413263
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I deer hunt for the ultimate enjoyment of killing deer. Filling my freezer is a bonus. I have a family of 5 and all of my kids have been raised on venison so we go through it pretty quick.



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Re: Filling the freezer.....why ? [Re: Zay334] #2413265
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I prefer venison over any other red meat. When my daughter was living at home, she would not eat beef but loved deer meat. When I would take half a back strap and cook it on the grill, when I would start cutting it up, my kids were like little birds with their mouths open. To me, it is better than a Ruths Chris fillet, and I've had a few of them.

I like to put at least 5 deer in the freezer, but this year I put up 6. My kids are both grown and married and I share with them too. My parents are still alive and they love when I take them some deer.

Why would I not want as much of my favorite meat as I can eat in a year???

Re: Filling the freezer.....why ? [Re: Zay334] #2413276
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Daddy used to buy a box of winchester silvertips(original) an 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. Daddy used to take huntin away as a punishment an id squall like you took my favrit toy...id act right too, for awhile anyways...least til hed let me go huntin again. We killed bout 7-10 deer a year, shot rabbits in febuary, caught spawning and post spawn crappie(many as we could catch with minners while theyd still bite), switched over to bass after that caught as many as we could an frozeem, dog days we didnt do much but eat, september was dove huntin every week day and weekend day we had the chance to, then squirrel season but didnt huntem til the frost an usually deer season had started by then. Never been in a world where everythin i eat, 80% wudnt kilt or caught.


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Re: Filling the freezer.....why ? [Re: Zay334] #2413279
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Probably the fact you can only get it four months out of the year makes it more unique. Around june or july we start comparing the remaining packs of meat to the remaining days till deer season . Plus we both love it!!!


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Re: Filling the freezer.....why ? [Re: CarbonClimber1] #2413418
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Originally Posted by CarbonClimber1
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.


damn, intense.

Re: Filling the freezer.....why ? [Re: Zay334] #2413444
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I buy half or a quarter of a cow nearly every year, as it's cheaper than going to the store. If I could put 5 deer in my freezer every year I could probably go 65-35 beef to venison consumption. As it stands now the 2 I've got will last till May. If I spread it out. I've already spoken for 9ish lbs of ground for some summer sausage.

I'd eat Vension at least 2 days a week if I had enough of it.

Re: Filling the freezer.....why ? [Re: Zay334] #2413446
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Originally Posted by Zay334
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.



Originally Posted by Zay334
Originally Posted by jlbuc10
I eat what I kill


This is me in a nutshell!



Something isn't adding up to me here Zay unless I have you confused with someone else. Didn't you kill like 5 deer on public this year? How could your freezer not be full if you eat what you kill?

I also was taught to eat what I kill. I guess the good news is that me and mine really like venison and other wild game, cause I sure like chasing the critters.

Re: Filling the freezer.....why ? [Re: Zay334] #2413465
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We do not buy ground beef. Period. We eat ground venison in place of ground beef exclusively. If we run out, we have family members that kill more deer than their households can even think about eating (don't get me started on that) so we take some of theirs off their hands. In addition to the countless uses for ground venison, we'll do all sorts of stuff with other cuts - grilled loin/backstrap, pan-fried loin/backstrap, cube steak, roasts, osso bucco with the shanks, fajitas, stir-fry, jalapeno poppers, kabobs...the list goes on and on.

My guess is your venison menu is very limited. Find some good wild game recipes online and start experimenting. Steven Rinella has a ton on his website and their are countless others online. Cooking and eating wild game that you killed yourself is so much more satisfying than cooking store-bought meat. I'd imagine that satisfaction is amplified even more when you butchered/processed it yourself, but I'm not there yet.


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Re: Filling the freezer.....why ? [Re: jbc] #2413958
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Originally Posted by jbc
Originally Posted by CarbonClimber1
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.


damn, intense.

Same thing with arrows an broadheads, i literally sit and straightened blades on vortex broadheads with 2 pairs of needle nose pliers to reuse them...got dang good at it too. They were my brother and daddys hand me down heads. If i wanted to bowhunt thats what i had to do.

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Re: Filling the freezer.....why ? [Re: BhamFred] #2413970
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Originally Posted by BhamFred
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.

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Originally Posted by Alagator
Originally Posted by BhamFred
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.


What do you do with the kidneys?


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Re: Filling the freezer.....why ? [Re: bigt] #2413996
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Originally Posted by bigt
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.



Same here bigt. Good thing I’m better at saltwater fishing than deer hunting or we would starve.


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Re: Filling the freezer.....why ? [Re: leroycnbucks] #2414112
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I'm not full on deer meat but, I'm close to full with elk in my 2 freezers. My last 2 elk have been ground into burger except for loin and I have several steaks and stuff as well for 3 elk ago . In the last 5 years my wife may have purchased 5 or 6 packs of hamburger at the store for convenience sake.

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I'm always in or near having a bad financial cycle ,, if not for a freezer near or full of deer meat,,, there would have been near no meat to eat at all many days and nights in the dining room saw venison dishes,, deer stew,, burgers, ground venison spaghetti ,,sausage, chili, grilled and fried,, filled the gap for need of meat. My family always tries to fill a freezer or two if possible for never having to want for meat. This doesn't mean beef is off the table though,

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My son's family of 5 needs 8 to 10 a year to carry them thru. The only beef they buy is ground when they want a good, greasy hamburger. He has the processor to do a variety of cuts and types of sausage, Salisbury steak, etc.


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Re: Filling the freezer.....why ? [Re: jlbuc10] #2414325
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Originally Posted by jlbuc10
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.


That's just blasphemous right there.


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Re: Filling the freezer.....why ? [Re: Zay334] #2414332
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My wife makes a wild turkey caserole with a cornbread crust..man its good.


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