Another reason I hunt for deer, beside the obvious ones like relaxation, love of the outdoors, thrill of the hunt, (I'm not a head hunter so I won't use bragging rights.) the incredible satisfaction of taking a deer with a muzzle loader, and others I'm probably missing right now, is to ease the annual cost of my grocery bill for the year. Of course this year it is to help recoup some or all the money I have spent on the sport this year also. I was astounded at the price when I ran out of ground venison this year and had to buy hamburger at the grocery store. So, maybe I'm wrong, if I remember right it cost something like $5.00 a pound for cheap ground hamburger. now let me say I got 55lbs of ground venison from the 2 does I harvested and multiply that by $5.00 and you get $275.00. But try to remember that ground venison, if you can buy it, is one heck of a lot more expensive than hamburger. My wife looked it up once and I was amazed at how expensive it was.
So anyway. I think I have gotten a good start on keeping down the grocery bills this year. I still have a ways to go though.