I love Forgotten Weapons, but this is unusual content for him. Instead of weapons history, he is showing off his very modern subsonic hunting rifle, and how he butchered his own deer for the freezer. Very useful skills indeed!
Even though as a Jew I’m not allowed to eat my own hunt, I found the skinning and butchering process fascinating. It reminded me of how I de-feathered and kashered (with kosher salt) and cleaned my own chicken. It was delicious, and remembering that, I found my mouth watering a bit at the venison recipes.
Now I’m wondering, has anyone here processed raw hides into leather?
I didn’t watch the video but have gutted/skinned and processed my share of deer, best thing about it IMO is fresh meat in the skillet while you’re doing it, flour and butter, nothing better, worst thing, the hair, it clings, tough to clean up.
Not really an issue, let others bring it to the table and enjoy
My dad, pretty young too, and as permits or tags, w/e they’re called weren’t part of the deal quick processing was, I recall once my dad did a bulk of it in the tub, my mom was not impressed, deer hair for a week I’d bet, a mess.
I often ended up at someones house I barely knew if at all as someone else would drag me along knowing I didn’t shy away, so long as it was being cooked I’d jump in, love venison.
Living in FL I was fortunate a local steakhouse imported/served it, never as good as fresh but pretty awesome to be on the menu
We have always processed our own game . When I was young we would all meet at my grand parents farm to help with the butchering of cattle , hogs and chickens every year . So deer and elk were not hard to do .
My Dad was manager of a Co-op where they butchered livestock. This was in 1947, I was 5. Dad let me fire the kill shot occasionally. He would hold the rifle and I would pull the trigger. It was a .22lr. It was then hauled up and processed. No Deer in Ks. at that time, but plenty since then.
