Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting How many of you only consume venison for red meat?

If I can put up an elk and a few deer every year, that's what we'll eat. My family of 5 will consume all of that in a season. We do buy a whole lamb every spring from a local farm that has their own usda processing facility.

The wife is waiting for me to be too old to bring home venison, so she can buy expensive grass fed beef with no antibiotics or hormones.

But venison IS grass fed with no antibiotics or hormones!

For the past 5 years deer has accounted for around 90% of our red meat. 8-10 a year in the freezer for a family of 5. We also make sausages of different types and some cured meats with it as well. Wife still buys some red meat. Rib eyes, some burger every now and again brisket. But it’s not often

Fish is typically trout or crappie wild caught.

Chicken we buy at the store

Pork we get at the store or buy a hog from a local farmer and have processed. He is organic by accident he says.

I came from a large family where deer was a major meat supply. Only had beef if the cow quit milking,pigs were butchered and sold for money to help run the farm. Now I only put up 1 deer a year for the wife and I,guess I got burnt out on it growing up.

Wife and I are coming up on our 23rd wedding anniversary this Month... we do our own butchering and average 4 or 5 deer every year.... we buy some ground chuck to blend with ground venison when we are making burgers or meatloaf.... I don't remember that last time we bought any other kind of beef.

Don't really care for Whitetail. But, if it's all that is available it gets some becomes sausage & the other as ground. I do need meat but not fond of Cave Man cuts or portions.

My wife and I eat chicken and turkey for "white meats" but most years 100% of our red meats are game meats, mostly deer, antelope and elk. Every now and then I get a buffalo, but probably one every 10 years or so is an average these days.

I love beef, especially our own corn fed fat one's. I've never ate any game animal that taste as good as a good steak. But thin cut fried backstrap is a good way to eat venison, make gravey from the drippings for the mash taters and a couple of cat eye biscuits and you have excellent table fare. I'm only living once and eat what I like whenever possible.