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There are rules to follow involving venison and beef

The question I get asked most often is without doubt whether or not I actually eat what I bag during hunting seasons. After I assure everyone that I most certainly do — it actually comprises a large part of my diet — the next question always is: how do you cook wild meat? Beef and venison recipes are interchangeable. However, how you like your beef cooked is the way to cook venison with one exception. Venison is not marbled with fat as is beef. Therefore, venison must not be cooked as long as beef. No doubt the biggest reason why people tell me their venison was tough is that ...

CWD found in Arkansas

STRONG, Ark. — Chronic wasting disease has been found in a deer in southern Arkansas, near the Louisiana state line, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission reported earlier this week. The deer was harvested in the Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge in Union County, the commission said, and a sample was confirmed with the fatal disease that affects deer, elk, caribou and moose in 26 states nationwide. There are no reported cases of CWD in humans, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but the agency recommends against eating infected meat. The source of ...

Deer hide program helps veterans

SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Braxton Miller likes knives. He also likes volunteering to help people. When asked to flesh out deer hides for the benefit of disabled veterans, he didn’t hesitate, though he’d never done anything like it before. “I had a little clue what it was going to be like,” said Braxton, an 11-year-old fifth-grader who lives in Sioux City. “It was fun, and I get to learn new things.” Siouxland deer hunters may be interested to learn of a program in which the hides from their trophy bucks can be turned into leather for craft kits and wheelchair gloves for ...

These hunting times they are a changing

By Shirley Grenoble For the Mirror For sheer excitement, opening day for deer hunting is the day for sure. When we get to camp, others will be there, coffee will be on, vegetable soup simmering perhaps and the excitement of the day before deer season will be at the level I think about all year long. The day before the season, stories fly like confetti, antlers of deer bagged in past years grow larger with each retelling, misses and other boners committed are laughed at again, as if no one ever heard of them before. I am old enough to remember the bustling deer camps of past ...

Firearms season offering up convenience for hunters

From Mirror reports HARRISBURG — Opportunity, meet convenience. Pennsylvania’s upcoming firearms deer season — always the most popular on the hunting calendar — features abundant whitetails and increased flexibility in when and where hunters can harvest them. No wonder excitement is high for what this year might bring. Hunters harvested an estimated 435,180 deer in the 2020-21 seasons. That was 12 percent higher than the 2019-20 harvest of 389,431 and the highest harvest in 15 years. Antlered deer were a large part of that. Hunters took 174,780 bucks last year. That was ...

Vermont, New Hampshire order COVID-19 tests for deer

The Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. — With hunting season underway, wildlife agencies in New Hampshire and Vermont have started testing for COVID-19 in white-tailed deer, as antibodies for the virus have been found in deer in other states, according to a government study. “We collected blood samples this year during the five busiest days of the hunting season,” said Dan Bergeron, the deer biologist with the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department. “We have biologists at biological check stations and collect ages and weights annually. This year, we also had them collect blood ...