Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting We all love hunting, but who loves eating Venison ?

I was able to put 2 Kentucky whitetails in the freezer this year, a buck and a doe. After ice aging, I cut one of the deer into backstraps, tenderloins, hindquarter roasts, and ground the shoulders into burger. I always save the shanks whole, as they are my favorite cut. The other deer, I packaged the backstraps, tenderloins, and shanks and ground the rest. My family eats the heck out of ground meat in various ways: burgers, chili, meatloaf, spaghetti sauce, etc.

My wife was originally reluctant to eat game meat, as it was not something they did in her family. She gradually came around to first eating burger mixed with beef burger 50/50, then to 100% deer burger, to now pretty much eating any of it.