Not game, but have you ever had ostrich? Yummy!
My folks are in rural WA. The deer know to stay close to humanity to avoid the hunting in the fall. Them and the neighbors annually or so illegally thin the herd. Otherwise no one keeps their garden or orchards :( I've met people or a guy rather from Boston who argued that most hunters only want a trophy. I argued back that the hunters I knew would shoot a trophy hunter for a trophy but he still never believed me. To this day we can't talk bcuz he thinks I'm lying. I've never known
Anyone to not utilize as much of a kill as they can.
Jim. I'm on an aside. Just blabbing. In no way denigrating what you said. I love venison. Imo. Better is cougar. I knew a gal that got part of a cougar road kill. Omg. The soup was do yummy. Dark totally dark meat. Wow. I love game meat. My grandpa had a wild game zoo until the government decided his off ramp wasnt needed (he said it was bcuz he was accepting Canadian currency and the govt told him to stop) anyway. Asides aside. Yummy. Venison lol.
~KLM
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On Jul 25, 2012, at 8:50 PM, Jim Saklad <jimdoc@me.com> wrote:
> We're in farm country in Maryland. We used to have foxes on the property, but haven't seen them lately, and the presence of rabbits pretty well means there aren't any foxes. Deer abound here. The local reservoir watershed was determined to have about 6 times more deer than its "carrying capacity".
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> The market has venison steaks for $25 per pound; our freezer has (had -- we're working our way through it slowly) 35 pounds of venison for a $100 cost of butchering and packaging it up. A small doe in the front field was spooked by the farmer who takes our hay. She jumped into the road, was hit by a vehicle, and jumped back into the field, where she died
