How long do you expect the shelf life of your canned venison to be?
Thinking this is something I need to know more about.
2 years is what most people say
That's the official line. In actuality, if canned correctly, and then stored correctly, I have read of it lasting up to 100 years. I have no personal experience with that time frame, but I have eaten some that was 10 years old, and still fine.
Back in the 1950's my mother served us canned pheasant that had to have been shot by her father years before. I think she put it up, and she was a home economics major in college at what is now North Dakota State (preparing, as they did in those days, to become a housewife).
It was completely fine. He died in 1944 and didn't 't do any hunting at the end, so you do the math,
Norm
