Just curious if anyone here is doing this? I have been considering trying this over the past couple years. Just think it might be a good decision to help me with my red meat addiction and might be somewhat healthier compared to other meats, especially compared to commercial processed beef and such. I’m just looking for thoughts on advantages or disadvantages to trying this. I love eating venison and it seems like it would be easy transition for me to make.

We put about 6 deer a year in the freezers. Makes it to where the only beef we need to buy is a steak sometimes. I want one about 3 times a month. We eat a lot of ground venison, as well as roasts and whole cuts. Generally prefer it to grocery store beef.

We eat only deer and elk for red meat with the exception of a good beef steak about four times per year. My wife and I have been married for fourteen years and only one year did we accept a half a beef from my parents who try to gift us that every year for Christmas. We are very fortunate to have a hunting party that shares so even the years I get don’t get one we get elk meat, likewise we never get a whole elk on years when I am successful

I feel very fortunate.

I've come close on years that I got elk. I usually cut my deer burger with beef to make it go further.

When I was younger, we did it out of necessity. Fortunately I can shoot 6 deer on my license, and did most years.

As long as I have venison I eat very little other red meat. I contribute Part my substantial weight loss to eating venison and fish. Not much beef , lamb or pork or poultry.
Last year I was only able to get a small doe and it went pretty fast. After it was gone I bought more red meat and more chicken. My weight loss was a lot tougher.
Good news is this year looks like my health will be good and I will fill the freezer up with venison.

We don't "only" eat venison, but the majority of the red meat we eat is venison. It's not out of an avoidance of beef, just that we stack the freezer and use the venison in most everything we cook.

Same here, between the wife and me and the kids we put up a lot of meat in the fall. When our rifle season opens here in a couple of weeks we'll have 8 tags between us to fill and we've got an elk or two coming up as well. We maybe buy a package of beef once in a blue moon, but it's rare. When we eat at restaurants it's usually beef then too i guess. But when we're coming at home it's deer, elk, buffalo and walleye the majority of the time, we do like chicken too but don't raise our own right now but hope to again.

Not only.... but mostly venison & fish (not red meat).

I estimate in the order of 80% venison - We buy 2 locally raised lambs & 1 pig per year.

A metric $hit ton of walleye & our own eggs. Have a local source for home farm, free range chickens, buy about 6-8 10lb birds per year.

Commercial is only chicken breast or thighs & the occasional steak or prime rib roast.

The first beef steak my son ever had was when he went into the army. Raised both my children on wholesome deer meat with a lot of wild pig mixed in and good red wild turkey meat. We still eat mostly deer and hog. Butcher our own grind our own sausage. Make it a family project every year. It is the best meat money can't buy.😊

Haven't ate pork, beef or chicken in years. Seafood, turkey, and whatever wild game I can get my hands on are my protein sources.

We buy very little red meat. Venison takes care of most of our needs.

I’ll buy ribeye, rib roast, same thing maybe a tenderloin for holidays other than that, it’s elk meat year round. Buck meat gets given away or sausages, kielbasa’s, or pepperoni.

I can't say I only consume venison. But it's certainly the majority. Between dad and me we usually do 6 or more deer a year. Usually something else as well every year since 16. Hogs, elk, antelope etc.

I do order steaks and burgers etc when going out to eat though.

-Jake

When the kids were at home, I put 5 or 6 deer per year in the freezer. We hardly ever bought beef. Now that they are grown-n-gone, it only takes 2 or 3 for the wife and I.

I'd say about 85 percent version, some beef and pork, chicken and turkey. Fish when I can get it.

Deer would be the lions share. Wife buys lots of chicken and some pork. Beef steak for special occasions.

I put all my deer into hamburger.. so yep.

I haven’t bought ground meat for almost 8 years now.

I’ve given up on beef, pork and chicken. Meat from any slaughter house is junk. Wild fish and game only for me. But I get most of my fat and protein from plant-based foods. I’m 65, I exercise 4 times a week and might be in the best shape of my life. Its 80% diet, 20% exercise.

Mackey

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.