Cooking Special: Butchering a Whole Deer | S6E06 | MeatEater 

Same here. Hoping to get my first next month in Ga!! Good luck and God bless!

I was in the same boat, I had a distant uncle that hunted in my family and that's it, it wasn't until I made crypto money and retired that I started hunting...now I can't stop

@@mikelac2 i only made enough to enjoy haha, made it on FTM what was your winner?

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And hornets.

Tell me about, did a bear one hot spring day the fat was turning oil n my hands

Agreed

Me too but Texas does offer many cold days during deer season

@@liamsire hornets are the worst, especially during the fall.

Excellent resource for folks getting started on the journey. 👍🏻

That's murder and cruel , animals feel pain , if only it was the other way around to show y'all humans how it feels to be "voiceless" & "defenseless"

@@alexandracorona2533 so you just eat veggies?

@@alexandracorona2533 Veggies are alive too you know!

@@phattdaddy2974 correct but they don’t feel pain like animals do and they don’t have a nervous system as animals do . Common sense . Animals are sentient beings just like us humans . Ty very much

I come back to it yearly too

Third year hunting third year coming back to this video lol

Thank you... This is encouraging and helpful to read... Not everything has to be perfect right? Haha

@@xxwildxx that is correct!

Do you ever put your meat in salt water? I’ve heard that helps take some of the blood and gamey taste out. I don’t like blood in my meat so tryna get advice

​@r6yoda200 I was told thst works, but if you can just hang it outside somewhere cool for 3 days to let it bleed out and the gamey taste is gone. That taste is in the blood and the salt water pulls the blood out of the meat.

Absolutely do it yourself! It’s easier than you think and nothing is more gratifying knowing you had a hand in every step of filling your freezer with venison.

Welcome to the lifelong learning experience of hunting. You can definitely do this yourself, even better if you can go hunt with someone who has been out a few times. That's how the tradition is passed along and down; between good friends out in the woods. Which makes the hunt more than just going to harvest meat but an experience that is worth it even if all you do is stare at trees and watch the sunrise. Worst case, you make some ugly cuts and your steaks don't look restaurant quality. Or you just grind it up into burgers and sausage. If you want some practice, buy some whole chickens and learn to part them out. The skills are essentially the same.

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I harvested my first deer last year, a very good friend came on the hunt as a mentor. We had a great time, along came my son. He taught us how he process his deers, it was almost the same to Steve’s way. We harvested two this year. We processed by ourselves again. This time my father and wife helped in part of the process. It is so gratifying to see the family coming together to prepare the cuts, burger and sausage that we will eat through the year. I would never send my deers to a processor.

You can do it. I’ve hunted for years always had a butcher take care of my animals, 7 years ago a neighbor showed me how to do this. From tree to freezer 2 hours lol it’s easy.

im not a hunter and have only ever field dressed a deer but i feel like he really knows what hes doing. maybe not compared to his homie Jessie Griffith but more importantly he knows how to teach the shit he knows. love steve and meateater

and the interesting thing is to someone like me that comes from a culture that uses everything, it feels like he's wasting a lot of great potentially delicious stuff , like the tongue for example.

⁠@@basiliskgamer8352buddy eats the heart, liver, and kidneys. What is he wasting a lot of exactly?

@@r6yoda200 tongue, brain, the head meat (including eyes) plus the butchering itself isn't very cleaned cut and all the bones have bone marrow that could be turned to stuck not just the bigger bones.

​@@basiliskgamer8352yeah, but that's very not north American. You also don't have the time, as a solo person to also progress the head and make stock. No one seems to like using deer bones from what I've seen

I've started using a rapala filet knife for skinning small game... I've been able to skin a few squirrels in a way that look like a big game rug

They have some rabbit, squirrel, dove and quail videos. Definitely worth a watch.

@@razdower You really can't beat a Rapala knife for basically all wild game. I use one for fish, birds, small game, and deer. I love the flexibility of the blade when butchering.

Works just the same on a feral pig.

And feral cats!

I did that once and I ripped the front legs off. Oh well.

Air compressor and blowing it between the skin and meat will blow up the skin like a balloon.

@@RadDadisRad ide like to see that video

Thanks. That sounds like a very easy and effective way to do the final cleaning.

That's so awesome man! My cousin is a state trooper out there and she's always posting the most beautiful photos from her hikes. I grew up in Maryland but we did all the hunting in west Virginia, which I'm sure is very different!

That’s so awesome! Thank you for your perspective! Greetings from Texas!

@@stephanaeonvery different, im sure! That’s awesome!

I smoke 2 joints before I smoke 2 joints and then I smoke 2 more

You guys are fucking funny😆😆😆

i have heard of the air compressor trick.

@@ryantogo8359 it’s a bot that uses other peoples comments

he has his own show hahaa and im not sure about podcast but has a couple books

Good to see you here Jason! Taking your bow out this fall?

Do you still love Joe Biden & find him really helpful Jason?

@@doncorleone9280 no he likes Hilary now

yeah a old butcher showed me that. i use a bernzomatic torch

The more deer you butcher yourself, the easier it gets. Every time you do it, you'll learn something new. Glad to hear you're processing on your own. Saves a lot of money and you don't have to worry about someone butchering with a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other.

That’s 17 .5 hours seems a bit excessive

@@elijahpetersen6582 ha! TRUE! ….replayed parts over as I worked through the process. But not start to finish. 😆

I have

I clicked faster than both yall

Why?

True but sometimes I feel like if there’s not enough fat you lose a little bit of meat when it dries out during ageing. Our hunting party leaves hide on till we butcher

I hang and skin same way by the back legs

That's a rough time of year, lol. I got 3 in the freezer last fall so we're still in ven, but I do look at that dwindling supply with trepidation.

@@macshatchetman13 I only killed 2 last year had a steer we slaughtered taking up most of the freezer.

@@Danzilly That's a nice option to have, the steer. Plus, I'm only feeding my son and myself.

Where do you live ?

Nice try dude. 👍