I never mix venison with any other meat.....just grind and package in 1 lb. tubes....cut butterfly steaks with the backstraps....a couple large roast from each hind quarters one from each front shoulder.....
Just never mix any pork or beef in any venison....its very rare I eat any beef or pork....
That is what I do. Can't see any reason to mix any lard into it. It's hard enough trimming all the fat off of these corn fed deer around here.
Jerry
