How to Butcher Deer on the Homestead
It had always been our dream to hunt. We truly believe that hunting is the best way to harvest meat. Better, even, than growing your own meat animals.
We love the fact that the animal lived its life in its natural environment, running around freely, eating straight from nature, as much as it wants, whenever it wants, and what it wants. In a nutshell, it is free-range, organic meat, the kind you pay top dollars for in the grocery store.
Hunting seems to shed a different light on your relationship with the land. A deeper, much more meaningful connection. Sitting at the edge of the field or in the woods for hours in complete silence, watching, listening, waiting that the universe will give you an opportunity to feed yourself and your family is magical.
It’s a blessing.
It’s empowering.
Is it easy? Hell no. But we choose to eat meat and we’ll be damned if we let someone else do our dirty work.
We wish to be as self-sustained as we possibly can. Now that we are out in the country, close to the farm, we have the opportunity to do much more towards this goal and hunting is part of the plan.
This is our second year hunting and processing deer. Truth is, we don’t have a whole lot of experience but we are learning from the best.
We have a few friends that are very experienced hunters and we are all working together (hunting together, sharing the meat, and donating what we can). This deer that you see in the picture was not shot by my husband, but by one of his friends. It actually was a one in a lifetime kind of shot because he killed two deer with one shot. They stood side by side and the bullet went through the first doe and cut the other one in the neck, killing both of them immediatey.
**Head over to the site to see how we process deer. Be advised, this is a very detailed picture tutorial!
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