Last year’s buck was a nice mature mule deer specimen taken in November but way closer to the road than normal for me took him to the butcher at 9:00AM. We had the best breakfast sausage we have ever had in over 30 years of me killing & her cooking. Were grind most of my venison & elk because I love the lean burgers. My wife is a gourmet cook and does lots of things with venison but isn’t a huge fan, lately she has been impressed by the quality of the meat (we have gotten faster at cooling it down)
We are lucky to have a big group of hunters who gather for a Wild game pit BBQ so have had whitetail from Virginia and Mississippi and Axis from Hawaii. The pineapple & mango eating Axis is the reigning taste champ but it would be impossible to name #2.
