Well my wife shot a tender young doeling and we decided to age it in the fridge due to hot weather. Today we took it out and basted it with all kinds of spices. Then filled the chest cavity with potatoes,onions, and carrots.Wrapped it in aluminum foil ,then chicken wire to hold it together. I dug a pit ,lined the bottom and this afternoon I built a big fire. After it burned down we put her deer in there and covered it over. I took photos but am to tired to mess with posting them tonight. Tomorrow we will dig it up and see if it is a feast fit for a king. Since we had to wait for the fire to burn down to a nice bed of coals the kids took advantage of the opportunity to roast hotdogs and marshmallows for supper.
Last edited by mountaineer magic; 10-14-2010 at 09:56 AM.
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that should be interesting. Did you make a fire on top of the ground also?
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Sounds Tasty! we did one on a (Spit) one time, like for a Pig, turned out real good. We stuffed it with a few Chickens. But we did take out the back Straps and Tenderloins, had different plans for them. Let us know how it was.
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One of my favorite ways to do a deer. When you pull the meat save a bunch of it. Mix it with a good BBQ sauce and slow cook for a few hours in a crock pot. Best BBQ sandwiches in the world!! All you need to go with that are a few of them BIG dill pickles. Man I am making myself HUNGRY!!
Oh ya and congratulate your wife. When I take my girlfriend huntnig and she kils a deer I never hear the end of it. Remember that song about "Bring Home the Bacon". She goes around the place singing it for a whole day or two. Tom.
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Sounds good Chet. Are you sure it's legal to have a luau that far north?
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I could only post 5 pics so the remainder are posted here. The deer turned out so well that I dcided to go try to bag an Antelope this afternoon and pit cook it. Tom gave a great suggestion , so I plan on making pulled BBQ with a couple of deer and freezing it. I love BBQ. anyway. The meat was so tender it fell right off the bone and the veggies were delicious. I was going to take pics of that also but the batteries in the camera were dead. I covered the pit with some sheet metal that blew off the barn roof, then covered that with dirt and let it cook for 16 hours.
feast fit for a king hopefully. (photos added)
Tom.
