- Location
- not sure yet
All of it, I never buy commercial meat but I will eat it if I am eating at someone else's house and that is what they are serving.
How much game do you eat?
- Thread starter sherlockbonez
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I may only hang 10 days on the hook but I make up for it with more than one glass of red!
If the family is gone I treat myself to a super thick NY strip done blue rare.
My wife actually finds beef too fatty for her tastes now and prefers the deer and moose so a good steak is wasted on her.
The deer I cut up last night hung for 24 days, though, so that's dry aged and it goes amazingly well with a nice red.
- Location
- Saskatoon, SK
95% red meet.
still buy chicken from time to time.
Moose, elk and deer. Goose and duck.
still buy chicken from time to time.
Moose, elk and deer. Goose and duck.
tactical870
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Buckhorn, Ontario
90% venison. Haven't eaten beef burger or pork sausage in over 3 years. 3 deer in the freezer right now....
red meat is 90% wild. Wife and I filled 5 of our 6 whitetail tags this year. Only red meat we buy is hamburger starting about springtime (never make enough).
Broke down this year into 80lbs (60lbs venison/20lbs pork) of sausage (pepperoni and summer). 38 bottles of venison (1pt bottle holds about 1lb meat). 20lbs of stew. 12 roasts. 24 steaks. That usually holds us for red meat. Last year got 1/2 a moose cow so we ate better right through the year. Chickens are free range from the Hutterites (about a dozen a year), but we bottled about 25lbs of chicken breast as well.
Meals usually break down on avg to 3 wild meat, one chicken, one fish, one pork, one surprise, but all heavy on vegetables every week.
Nope, different recipes for everything. Kind of get tired of eating the same thing all the time.
Some of that bottled venison, can of cream of mushroom soup, green and red pepper. heat it up, add some cornstarch to thicken, and you got a great bourguignon to serve over rice. Takes about 20min from the time you walk in the door!!
Broke down this year into 80lbs (60lbs venison/20lbs pork) of sausage (pepperoni and summer). 38 bottles of venison (1pt bottle holds about 1lb meat). 20lbs of stew. 12 roasts. 24 steaks. That usually holds us for red meat. Last year got 1/2 a moose cow so we ate better right through the year. Chickens are free range from the Hutterites (about a dozen a year), but we bottled about 25lbs of chicken breast as well.
Meals usually break down on avg to 3 wild meat, one chicken, one fish, one pork, one surprise, but all heavy on vegetables every week.
Nope, different recipes for everything. Kind of get tired of eating the same thing all the time.
Some of that bottled venison, can of cream of mushroom soup, green and red pepper. heat it up, add some cornstarch to thicken, and you got a great bourguignon to serve over rice. Takes about 20min from the time you walk in the door!!
X2 on the years that I am able to harvest anything.
Northman999
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Southern Yukon
The wife used to have a real attitude against wild meat, but now I've got her cooking about 50% wild meat. A few weeks ago she actually scolded me for running out of wild burger and told me to get off my ass and go get a bison. I'm hoping to get one when the weather warms up; probably in February.
o% wild meat. Love to hunt, hate the taste and the smell of it cooking. Neither the wife nor I eat wild meat. I been a hunter since I was a lad on the farm. I give it all away usually after I pay for the processing. The landowner where I do most of my deer hunting gets a whole deer every year.
Hurketthunter84
Member
- Location
- Northwestern Ontario
About 80% here, got two moose and a bear this year and after all the family members had they're share we still have a freezer full of meat. Should last atleast until the ice goes and we start fishing seriously.
My wife is convinced that wild meat is healthier and will only eat red meat if it is deer. If I could raise chickens or something we could control the feed she would be very happy, but we live in the City. Surprisingly, the whole family likes the burgers I make from deer venison, and my oldest daughter loves the spicy sausage I have made. Gotta like it that my hobby is appreciated. I do admit that as a kid I didn't find deer quite as appealing, but I'm 90% certain it was the lack of proper care and cooking that made it so unappealing.
I have, at a wild game banquet, and lynx too from a trapper up here. Both taste like chicken, although the cougar was quite a bit coarser.
Ted
Sure lots of times. Both types of cougar.
The feline version is a bit like pork. Trim all silver skin and sinew very well, it's horrible. But cougar has ben a top favorite of our game banquets.
