If you love eating fresh venison like we do, we have articles to walk you through the entire process, from proper field dressing, to butchering your deer, followed by some excellent venison recipes to help you get the most out of your harvest.
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Venison is the Heart-Healthy, Eco-Friendly Red Meat
Oct 21, 2025Casey Rotenberger
You spend the season putting in hours of work to harvest a deer, likely because you enjoy the sport. The enjoyment can continue long past the point of processing if you begin to realize the…
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6 Ways Hunters Taint Their Venison and Get “Gamey” Flavor
Oct 1, 2025Lindsay Thomas Jr.
“Gamey” venison is code for mishandled venison. Having cooked and eaten young deer, old deer, mature bucks, rutting bucks, and ancient does, I will die on this hill. Properly handled and processed venison rarely has…
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How Long is Venison Safe in Warm Weather?
Sep 9, 2015Lindsay Thomas Jr.
The doe kicked and ran out of the food plot like a hard-hit deer, hunched with its tail tucked, and I heard loud crashing sounds not far into the thicket. Confident I had venison on…
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Hunt and Gather: Venison Roast and Wineberry Cobbler
Jan 26, 2015Bruce and Elaine Ingram
“There are white oak acorns all over the woodlot up the hill,” the landowner said when I arrived for a scouting session a week before Virginia’s Urban Archery Antlerless Season began. “That’s where I want you…
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Hunt and Gather: Fix-Ahead Venison Cube Steak and Grimes Golden Applesauce
Jan 14, 2015Bruce and Elaine Ingram
It was the weekend before the first Saturday of October, the traditional opening of Virginia’s archery season, and a friend and I had been searching my Potts Mountain land in Craig County for a stand site….
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Deer Tongue for Dinner
Dec 30, 2014Bruce Ingram
About a dozen years ago, I began to feel guilty about leaving gut piles behind in the woods after field dressing a whitetail. I was uncomfortable knowing my wife Elaine and I might be wasting…
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Hunt and Gather: Venison Pastitsio and Crabapple Nut Bread
Jul 28, 2014Bruce and Elaine Ingram
For a fortnight last October, the most exciting pattern I experienced involved a steady stream of deer coming to scarf up fruit under a pear tree. Setting up nearby, I ended up killing two fine does…
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Hunt and Gather: Baked Venison Burgers & Wild Blackberry Pie
Apr 25, 2014Bruce and Elaine Ingram
While my wife Elaine and I were preparing this venison themed dinner, we thought of all the ways Quality Deer Management influenced how the entrée and dessert arrived on our table. I killed the doe, from…
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Deer Heart on the Menu
Dec 10, 2013Bruce Ingram
As someone who depends on venison for all my wife Elaine’s and my red meat needs for the year, and who tries to annually kill 10 whitetails to fulfill those needs, I regard the consumption…
