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Lifer
Oct 6, 2021
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I know when my brother takes some of his venison to the butcher to get sausages back, the butcher trades a bit more venison for some pork to mix in with the sausage...
Yes, if you trim all the venison fat out (as you have to to avoid the gamey flavor), a common way for home processors to introduce fat back in is by feeding some fatty bacon into the grinder alongside the venison as you make the ground meat. But yeah, then you have to wonder how much of the tastiness is just the pork fat we all love so much...
 

alaskanpiper

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May 23, 2019
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Yes, if you trim all the venison fat out (as you have to to avoid the gamey flavor), a common way for home processors to introduce fat back in is by feeding some fatty bacon into the grinder alongside the venison as you make the ground meat. But yeah, then you have to wonder how much of the tastiness is just the pork fat we all love so much...
Added suet certainly makes a difference for the better.
 

Briar Lee

Lifer
Sep 4, 2021
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Humansville Missouri
One thing that seems to help out deer meat is to bushwhack the deer from a stand instead of alarming it, and causing adrenaline to taint the meat.

But nothing I know is more thrilling than assembling a bunch of riders on horseback during muzzleloader season and having a deer drive. It’s hard to get up a proper deer drive these days, when the game wardens opened up muzzleloading season to modern handguns. My friends now all want to pistol shoot deer from stands.

Sitting up high in tree, a fellow feels like an assassin. You might fall off, it’s cold up there, and it’s hard to manage coffee and pipe materials, and listen to music.

I sit on a big rock in Spout Spring Hollow and if a deer ambles by I might shoot him.

Most of them are too small.

But the music is good, the pipes taste good, I never run out of coffee, and when I want to I can mount my Yamaha and go see how the others are doing.

Mostly, I like the idea of deer hunting.

It’s an excuse to sit in the woods and pretend to hunt deer.

The deer I hunt, must at least tolerate Harlan Howard type county music.

 
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Piping Rooster

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Grew up tromping through and driving airboats in the everglades hunting gator, deer, hogs and gigging frogs and trotlining for soft shell turtles for turtle stew. If it creeps around on the ground, flies through the air or swims in the water it got eaten! Down hear we like to do frog legs, gator tail and catfish fried in cornmeal with a bowl of swamp cabbage or turtle stew!
 

anotherbob

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Mar 30, 2019
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I will add, that I have never had a venison sausage that I enjoyed. I'd rather just make my Black Stag Chili with the ground venison than to try to ever eat the sausages again.
Oh man you're missing out. I mean most of it's terrible but there are a few guys around here that make an incredible venison sausage. Like people that hate venison will eat an insane amount of this stuff.
 
Oh man you're missing out. I mean most of it's terrible but there are a few guys around here that make an incredible venison sausage. Like people that hate venison will eat an insane amount of this stuff.
Ummmm, I'm not missing out, as I said, "that I have never had a venison sausage that I enjoyed."
I am aware that other people like it, but to me the flavor of venison does not pair well for my palate with the herbs used in sausages, especially sage. Plus, it usually ends up very dry and tough. I am just picky about sausages. There aren't very many pork sausages that I enjoy either.

But, if you like them, that's great.
 

anotherbob

Lifer
Mar 30, 2019
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Ummmm, I'm not missing out, as I said, "that I have never had a venison sausage that I enjoyed."
Most of it is terrible. Most of it makes me feel like an animal died for this(?) and also how can you ruin good food like this?
I am aware that other people like it, but to me the flavor of venison does not pair well for my palate with the herbs used in sausages, especially sage.
Yeah that's the trick. The guys who make the good stuff are super secret about what they use, but it's not the normal sausage spices except the pepper corns.
Plus, it usually ends up very dry and tough.
That's the other things while it's dry it kind of crumbles in a way that's hard to explain and not tough. Again they act really secretive about the whole process.
I am just picky about sausages. There aren't very many pork sausages that I enjoy either.
Same here.
But, if you like them, that's great.
I still feel like you're missing out. (I am the kind of guy who loves finding the thing someone loves or really enjoys in a category or genre they don't like. I like when I can help people say something like, I don't like Country music but man Dilert Casbans is amazing [made that guy up by the way]).
 
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Lifer
Dec 24, 2014
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Only really had it in jerky my cousin sent me. It was good, but im sure im missing something not having it in steak or sausage.