Doesn't taste much different from a duck actually. I know a lot of people are sour on them, but if you open them up, they smell and look exactly the same.
I don't give nothing away. Usually we can only shoot one deer In the zone I hunt In anyway, sucks! Love shooting carp, we smoke them up on a smoker. Great tasting stuff!!
If its not roadkill or a pestly thing like snakes, bobcats, and the other turkey/deer eating animals then yeah!
Lots of venison in my home, some pheasants, fish, dove sometimes, and turkey. i havnt bought a pound of ground beef from a store in 10 years.
I either eat or give to close friends anything I shoot. I make sure everything is consumed properly. That said, the meat is something I sort out AFTER the hunt. I wouldn't steer clear of the woods if I was full on venison, if nothing else HFH programs exist. I hunt to hunt, not to eat. Eating is just a bonus for me. On international hunts keeping the meat isn't even an option. If/When I am put in that situation, I will probably follow along with whatever the locals do I would guess. Good intriguing question.
That's interesting about the international stuff. I always wondered what happened with some of the animals and how you'd go about getting them back state-side. I watched a show where a guy killed a hippo. The media and the public gave him a lot of grief for it. Said it was pleasure killing and that the locals really didn't need the food. Blah, blah blah. I watched the show. Those people thought he was fricking awesome. There was nothing left of that hippo when they were through with it. I gotta hope that the money the guy dropped went to improving their economy too. Might be wishful thinking but meh. Do you at least get to try what you kill? That hippo looked like a big piece of pork on the show
You can eat like a king while there and sample anything you like, but USDA will not allow the import of ANY meats into the united states from abroad, with the exception of Canada I believe. No food from Africa for sure. But you aren't misguided in thinking hunting improves foreign economies. In many areas in Africa, if it wasn't for hunting there would be no economy. They sell the hunts to us for money, and keep the meat as if they killed it themselves. They win two fold from hosting hunts. Hunting keeps poaching down as well, as hunting puts a value on the animal, which causes locals to care about protecting these valuable assets rather than poaching them for personal consumption or allowing others to poach them for the black market. Hunting drives these places in a lot of cases.
no I don't. I hunt bears just for the fun of it and give the meat to 2 different people in the neighbourhood. I hunt yotes, and crows just for the fun of it too and can't bring myself to even try either of those. moose i give a lot of away or it would go to waste, only aloud to shoot 1 buck here no does so I don't give any of that away and wish I had more every year. but i have many freinds and know many more who would not even consider hunting to give away the meat. killing and meat is only a bonus for me, and in no way represents weather or not i had a successful season.
Christine what do you do with all them carp? Besides trying to feed them to Sharp when he makes you mad! LOL
For the most part. I do give some to my grandparents and do some trading with my parents (jerky for bologna, etc). With the little bit i give away and trade, my wife and I usually mow through at least 4-5 deer a year.
I currently eat what I kill. In years past I did controlled herd reduction and the meat went to the needy. I never enjoyed just plain killing for herd reduction purposes; It starts to weigh on ones' conscious. In one two week period 83 deer where taken with archery gear. There is nothing fun about shooting deer that are not afraid of humans. It is just plain and simple execution. I won't do that again unless I'm compensated extremely well and have some young pups to drag them all to the truck and off to the butcher. The good thing I guess is it helped the land owners and the hungry but I didn't like it.
The question that comes to my mind when I see that pic is how you ever get the smell off of the truck. I have to scrub and scrub just to get the smell off my hands when I fillet the bass I catch.
