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How many whitetail deer does your household consume every year? It doesn't matter if you live alone or have 10 kids and your in-laws living with you. Don't include the deer that you share with those outside of your house or that you give to Hunters For The Hungry, etc. Just the deer that are consumed under your roof.

Thanks, RS

One has worked for me and the wife for years.

Two usually takes care of us.

Wife and I used to eat 4 or 5.
Now with two kids, we don't get as many.

One. My wife cooks it but doesn’t eat it.

One or two

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One a year usually. If I kill a second deer, I usually donate to Hunters for the Hungry.

Two is good, three is better. My wife and I love it. I cook it lots of different ways.

5-6

Two as I'm the only one who eats venison.

1 usually, and one is usually too much. I mainly kill for wall decoration.

Matter of fact just today, I sent 2 sections of backstrap off to the Lab (s)

Had to make room for 2 bologna chubs and 40 more beef hamburger patties for holiday cookouts

Old Dirty Bastard will take a leak right out in the skreet and grind backstrap up for jerky.

Ideally, as many as I legally can.
But usually 1 or 2 is enough to take up
the allotted storage space. It all gets
eaten

really depends on the size of the deer. This past year I only put four in the freezer and ran out of meat about a month ago, except a little burger and sausage left.

3-4 for the wife and I. We shoot it, gut it, skin it, bone it out and do all the grinding. We generally go thru 80 pounds of burger a year. Some we take to cook outs. Always a pleasure listening to someone saying they don’t like venison as they chomp down on a venison burger.

5 to 7

Everyone in these parts prefers Bar S hotdogs and Bud Ice.

No one wants deer. I only have 1 gent that will take a deer and I have to almost twist his arm. They want me to skin it for them and hang it 3-4 days in my cooler and then bring it to them. Of they want a couple days notice and such.

. I started giving them to the food bank program.

Yessir
Always satisfying serving someone a dish of
properly cared for and prepared game.
Funny to hear someone cussing out venison
or rabbit, squirrel, etc. while they gobble one
bite after another.

Used to do 5 or 6 when the kids were home, plus caribou, elk, moose or mule deer every couple of years. Now two deer will do it, unless I hunt other, bigger game. Then I keep that and give the deer away.