Actually because now in Wisconsin we are limited to one deer for the gun season... the cost of venison increased dramatically. When you consider the hunting license, hunting clothing, gas to go to and from the woods, if you hunt away from home you have hotel, restaurant, bar tabs, miscellaneous items, and lets not forget the powder, projectiles, and that rifle you had to have. Throw in a knife or two, and it gets expensive.

Really though if you just figured the license, to have the animal butchered if you can not do that yourself, the cost of having sausage made if you can not do that also, then gas to go hunting, and pocket money.. that #55 pounds of meat gets pretty expensive.

What I am getting at is.. I never figure the venison at so much a pound. If I did that, I would sell off my gun collection and purchase a butchered beef every year for many years, with the money from the sales.