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Old 08-04-2008 | 10:24 AM
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Default Heart and Liver

How many people here keep the heart and liver? I really enjoy these fried in onions and butter and so do my wife and kids. Theres been many a time I have walked up to someone gutting a deer and they leave these behind, they do not go to waist though, I carry extra plastic bags with me at all times while deer hunting.
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Old 08-04-2008 | 10:26 AM
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I keep the liver but not for myself. I keep it for my Wired Haired Dachshund for training practices.
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Old 08-04-2008 | 10:26 AM
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I eat them. Most that respond, however, will tell you they don't eat the "guts". I don't eat the livers from older deer. Each to his own.
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Old 08-04-2008 | 10:30 AM
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I have ate the heart and liver before and although i thought it was ok i must admit i usually am guilty of leaving it behind. I hunt in otsego county ny, not too far from where they found some wild and captive deer with CWD in oneida county. I heard that in areas where there could be CWD to not eat internal organs. I'm sure all the deer i have shot have been fine, but i'm just a little paranoid i guess haha
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Old 08-04-2008 | 10:31 AM
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I usually can't keep the heart cause there is such a huge hole in it

I keep the heart fairly often but never the liver. I just dont like the idea of eating an organ that removes toxins and waste products from the blood[:'(]
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Old 08-04-2008 | 10:32 AM
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I take the heart of each deer i take and give it to a hunting buddy of mine. Me makes up a great stew with them. I have been told to not eat the liver though cause supposedly deer livers done dont clean themselves out. Not sure if that is true though.
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Old 08-04-2008 | 10:32 AM
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I save and eat both. I eat wild liver but can't stand domestic liver. Beef and pork liver make me gag!
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Old 08-04-2008 | 10:51 AM
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Heart, liver, kidneys. Dogs love them.
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Old 08-04-2008 | 10:56 AM
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Heart and Liver, in butter and onions just like you said
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Old 08-04-2008 | 11:05 AM
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There are too many other good things in this world to eat besides that stuff, plus I ain't starving, if I was I would eat it with my nose pinched!
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