wild meat vs store bought

[roundball]

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For the record...for many years now I've had the convenience of being able to directly deliver and give all game I shoot to a very poor family in the area I hunt...I've cleaned and butchered enough to prove my manhoood and since my Wife and I no longer use venison, I'd just as soon not bother with all that...I just like to hunt them.

I have a low 'hitch haul' that slides into the receiver on the back of the Blazer...drag deer up on that, drive one mile down the road from the property I hunt and unload it where the lady told me to put them...on the hood of an  old Chevy that's on cinder blocks in the side yard so the dogs don't get it.

Practically before I can get back into the truck and out of the dirt yard onto the road, a couple cars are slowing down to turn in...relatives and nighbors she calls...in no time the deer is skinned, butchered, and divided up among a few needy families...6 deer per season.  A few years ago when deer season rolls around they began setting up a 4" x 4" x 10' A-rame in the side yard to use processing the deer.

So I get to enjoy not only deer hunting and taking game the way the settlers did with Flintlocks, but I also get satisfaction out of helping a few local needy families by delivering free venison to their door...win-win for everybody.

[Red Badger]

I thank you for the clarification Voy!

I know myself I feel the same - I usually eat what I hunt.  One exception was back in 1969.  I had just lost my father and was feeling lost, my big brother form the big brothers organization knew I love the outdoors and convinced my mom to get me a life membership to the NRA, they had a contest going and I won the junior life member bighorn sheep hunt that year... long story short - I went to Wyoming and took part in the hunt but was only taking pictures until the last day of the hunt.  The guide had constantly tried to get me to use my rifle and I kept refusing... (he had been told I had just lost dad) when he pressed me the evening before the last day I told him dad had taught me never to shoot unless I was going to feed the family or in self defense....

He made me take the shot the next day after telling me the meat would not go to waste.  after we got done and I had taken a nice ram with a full curl he brought me to the reservation that evening and told me that the ram I had taken as well as several others fro this hun twas being prepared for a tribal ceremony ...   He also told the elders of the tribe what I had done in refusing to shoot an animal just for the trophy...

The elders inducted me into the blackfoot tribe that night because of what I had been taught and the strength of my convictions....

I really wish I could have understood what an honor that was but being 14 at the time I kinda just blew it off... I don't even remember the name I was given or anything...

We live and learn and hopefully make this a better world for the next generation...

[hank-aye]

Voy , I know what ya meanbeen at the mersy of some of those that feel EVERYONE HAS ta think the same as them. Pain in the A** (PITA). 
Very fortunate we do NOT have ta do so here.   

[aka-kesler]

Round ball just read your last entry!! Great thing you do cause we all know that tis better to give than to recieve!!! And we should all aspire to be giving in one way or another!!!       

[hank-aye]

Round ball just read your last entry!! Great thing you do cause we all know that tis better to give than to recieve!!! And we should all aspire to be giving in one way or another!!!       

I'll 2ed. that 

[Red Badger]

I'll third it.... It is a definate Win Win for everyone involved!  A lot of States are now trying the same experiment - If you hunt they will take it and have it processed and deliver it to needy family's.. a good idea for those of us who love the hunt, and helps with game management.

[Micanopy]

Here in Texas it costs a pretty penny to donate a deer for the needy so I butcher and process them myself and drop them off for the old folks around here. We dont buy meat we hunt most of the year for a varity of things from deer to hogs and everything in between. We make our own sausage, jerky, smoked hams, smoked porks, the whole deal. Only thing I kill just to kill are flies. I hate flies.

[chuck w.]

We eat the game we kill. The varmits we kill well, the worms and buzzards got to eat too. Fish a lot. We also crab and dig clams. Most of the beef we buy is Scottish Highland raised w/o hormones and minimal if any aniti biotics is grass fed and finished with a bit of grain about a month before slaughter. We rarely eat feed lot beef. Most ain't worth the risk.

[Leathermonger]

I always look forward to getting my freezer close to empty this time of year, that way there's plent y of room for the 1 deer we get to kill and if I'm dam lucky, room for a full size elk, we usually eat this up over the course of a year and theres always a wild game burnt meat saturday night at every rondy we attend during the year!

[redhawk]

I had some fresh tender loin for dinner tonight fried with brown gravy.  It was fixins set for a king. I ate til I was about pop.  There are not many things any better.

[sean drake]

I work ina beef packing plant as the fork lift  teck I get to by the meat right from the plant I can by a hole riby for what most restronts get for just a 10 oz riby stake but it still does not taste like the beef  I bucher right out of my own hurde can not even come close . my cowes eat grass and hay thats all if they get sick they eather live or die may have somthing to do with it. here in ok I can shoot wild hog with only a hunting licens makes more meat then deer and like the tast to(cheeper then trying to raise them ) not that I do not like deer . i just do not have a tast for prossed food and I am a real meat and potatos kind of person

[Roaddog]

We like the farm raised beef but the dear, squirrel, bunny,pheasant,grouse and duck are the best. We do the butchering. We just got dun making 160 pounds of sausage of all kinds. The food shelf shot themselves in the foot here in Minnesota last year. The through out several hundred pound of venison because it was contaminated from lead they said. This year they were not happy they didn't get much.

[Hanshi]

Odd how these same people will rail about shot venison and buy into the fantasy of lead contamination, while at the same time distribute, sell and consume beef, chicken, pork, etc., shot full of antibiotics yet carrying drug resistant bacteria.  Is the national IQ dropping or is there a brainwashing, conspirasy/collusion at work?  Wild meat taken by hunters is the most nutritional and safe meat one can get.

[voyageur1688]

  Roaddog,
What part of Minnesota are ya in?  I live up in Ely. Do ya do any rondies? We are lookin at havin a couple up here this year.
   Hanshi,
I would say its a combination of brainwashing and IQ's gettin lower. With all the fluoride we are consuming every day we are for the most part slowly dumbing ourselves down and most dont even realize it. Then ya add to that all the crud they put in our food an we do have a big problem comin at us like a runaway herd of buffalo. All the steroids an antibiotics they put in the meat and the way they are hybridizing all the veggies its a miracle we aint doin worse than we are but thats gonna start showin changes real soon cuz they are changin the foods more an more every day.
Voy

[sean drake]

IQ and duming down hell yes I mean look at what our grand parents were taught in school and what they teach them now some of our grand parents only had a 8th grade ed but they were taught things that we now go to callage for. and look at all the modern high tech crud we have now phone # u don't have to remember them now because the phone does it for u  go to the parts store get a part for your car if it isn't in the little black box they cant get it  cant look it up In a book and so on and so on but yes we are dumbing down IQ's are getting lower and not just because of food but I'm getting off track here better get back to my black powder gun and all the old ways be for I make us all a little dumer