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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 09:38 AM
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We will now being having venison for Thanksgiving, too! :-)
Edited on Sun Nov-21-04 09:46 AM by Padraig18
This Friday marked the start of Illinois' shotgun season for deer, and we both got one! I got mine, a yearling buck, at 7:15 Friday morning, and Tony got his, a 3-4 y/o buck at about 2:00 yesterday afternoon.

Both are at the local locker plant being processed into roasts, steaks, chops, burger and summer sausage.

:D
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katinmn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 09:57 AM
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1. congrats!
I love smoked venison sausage the way my dad makes it.

I hope to have some when I go home for Thanksgiving.:)
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 10:00 AM
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2. We love it!
We'll also be seving homemade wine: Arthur grape, Greenup peach, Anna plum, Cobden cherry and a nice white, from our own grapes. :)
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 10:10 AM
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3. And you're both so cute!
You're killing me here, with the yummy eats and the wines and the cuteness!

ARGH!!

:)
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 10:12 AM
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5. Hehe!
I looked really macho in my camo, with my trusty Remington in hand.

;)
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katinmn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 10:35 AM
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10. T-giving is the best national holiday
For some of us it's the only time we get together as a family to socialize over a meal.
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laheina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 10:11 AM
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4. Venison steak is yummy! nt
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 10:12 AM
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6. Mmmmm HMMMMM! So are roasts!
We're doing a wild game Thanksgiving meal this year: goose, venison and rabbit.

:)
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 10:26 AM
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7. Venison is one of the healthiest meats. Hardly any fat or cholesterol.
Edited on Sun Nov-21-04 10:27 AM by no_hypocrisy
Obviously no steroids or antibiotics.

However, beware that there is a condition going around deer that live in western states (I heard it's gotten as far as Madison, WI). Spongiform brain disease which is equivalent to Mad Cow Disease, and it can't be "cooked out" of the meat.

But I would live off venison otherwise if I could.
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katinmn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 10:31 AM
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8. yes, I heard of that.
Edited on Sun Nov-21-04 10:36 AM by katinmn
A couple years ago two guys in Michigan died from deer that had that disease.
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 12:02 PM
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12. It hasn't spread this far south.
Edited on Sun Nov-21-04 12:56 PM by Padraig18
However, the DNR is testing for it, and both our deer tested negative.

:)
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China_cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 10:32 AM
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9. Dressing it out
yourself is half the fun. Why pay someone else to do what you can do for yourself?
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 12:03 PM
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13. W haven't the room, the knowledge or the know-how.
We did field-dress them ourselves, however.

:)
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Sabriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 11:26 AM
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11. Does the CWD thing bother you?
A friend offered me some venison, but that CWD thing here in Wisconsin makes me more than a little nervous. I turned her down.
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