Oh, you must try some venison-raised on a ranch, I’m a natural food eater, and meat hunter-venison is very lean, very flavorful and can be used any way beef can-it is totally natural-no feed lot, growth hormones, antibiotics, etc. I like to grill venison steaks, or on special occasions, put a haunch on the smoker with a mesquite fire, then serve it with a vinaigrette sauce made with herbs from my garden and fresh-picked juniper berries-served with a nice green salad and steamed or sautéed fresh veggies and a nice shiraz or merlot to drink, it is a natural, healthy meal fit for royalty...
Do you have a place to hunt? I hope I will have money by Fall to pay one of the nearby ranchers with more than 20-30 acres for a hunt-I live in a rural area with livestock-sheep, goats and such on small acreage, so hunting is not allowed in this neighborhood. If I only bag one average sized deer, it can provide as much as 50 pounds of meat, in cuts just like beef.
I don’t have hunting experience. That can always change though, once I become trained over time. I plan to give myself a birthday gift this year or next year; a paid enrollment at a local gun range that trains adults on basic firearms. It’s a little over $200. for a few sessions of training. I look forward to it.
I was in the navy, and learned to mimic the sequence of certain procedures enough to pass the classes, but there was no follow up and thus no real learning. I want to become comfortable with the weight, feel, firing sounds and of course the inevitable recoil, which, with some guns, can knock you off your feet, so I hear. I’m excited about my plan, but I know better than to tell too many people about it. They may not understand the concept of recreational shooting, poor things.