ORIGINAL: ButchA
ORIGINAL: srwshooter
...and then you kill one he's so tough you can't chew it.
You know, you make a great point... Let's turn this around and talk about venison. Preparing it, marinating it, eating it at dinner with friends, etc...
Deer dog club venison
My brother-in-law is a LEO and doesn't have time to hunt, but knows a bunch of hunters. In fact, one of the guys he knows is in a deer dog club in Gloucester, VA. The guy gave my brother-in-law a few nice venison steaks to grill up. My sister & brother-in-law invited my wife and I over to help marinate the steaks and have dinner with them.
* Venison was marinated like how I always do it (wife's recipe).
* Evenly cook on grill and brush a mix of lipton onion soup on venison.
* Venison tasted "gamey" even with marinating and coating of onion soup.
* Venison was tough to chew even though it appeared juicy.
Still hunter venison
This was my small buck from last season that I dropped with one shot out in the GWNF at my deer camp. Li'l buck had no idea what hit him. Boom - flop, right in the left shoulder. DOA - right there on the spot. We invited my sister & brother-in-law over for dinner to eat
my vension steaks.
* Venison was marinated like how I always do it (wife's recipe).
* Evenly cook on grill and brush a mix of lipton onion soup on venison.
* Venison had no "gamey" taste at all.
* Venison was so juicy and tender, you could cut it with a butter knife!
Christmas dinner -- further proof
Same scenario as above with "still hunter" venison.
We invited my sister & brother-in-law over and our older nextdoor neighbors over for a nice Christmas dinner. We usedthe last of the venison -a 12 pound venison ham (I cut up/de-boned the other ham a long time ago). My wife helped me marinate it and the two of us used her great big slow cooker/roaster. We slow cooked the big 12 pound ham all day long in the same recipe, but then with a few hours to go, my wife addedpotatos, onions, carrots, etc.. It was delicious!!!
* 12 pound venison roast slow cooked with same recipe.
* Venison had no "gamey" taste at all.
* Venison just about fell off the bone - it was so tender.
* Nextdoor neighbors wife
(nice lady, don't get me wrong but at times, she can get, um, "fussy" - if you know what I mean) could not believe how good the venison tasted and how tender it was.
Long story short.... You have to ask yourself: Do you want to eat venison that is pumped full of adrenaline and all gamey tasting and tough like shoe leather. Or do you want to eat venison that is very tender with little to no gamey taste. You know, where the deer was just chillin' out in the woods, not being run to death my deer dogs, and then BOOM - the lights went out.