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Hunting Open Season

Moose meat in my opinion needs tenderizing to make it palateable. Deer is ok, bear I do not like. We only have White Tailed Deer in our area. I find all wild game have an intense flavour.
 
I assume it would be similar to the elk we get here. That is like beef with a very low fat content. I like it but my supplies are running low since brother-in-law stopped hunting.
 
Our local gamekeeper gives us venison quite often. In return, I do little bits of woodworking for him. The current job is a bit for his gun cabinet to hold the barrels. He doesn't like the design of the piece it came with which doesn't work well for his side-by-side shotguns!
 
We quite often have venison in the hope it will be ones that kill my trees.
 
We are shifting a lot of venison at the moment. I buy several whole loins and a few racks every week. It all comes from a stately home (National Trust) called Knole Park near Sevenoaks which is not far from us. The entire herd is wild fallow deer and has to be substantially culled each year. The meat is superb. Tender and beautiful. You need to crack on as once marinaded it needs just 4 minutes sauté and 4 minutes in a hot oven before resting.

We use other parts as well as we make venison ragu and venison stock.
 
It's hunting season here in France, too. We hear the guns and see the meets and the men in hi-vis vests.
The popularity of hunting is on the decline - fewer and fewer people are doing it. But, sadly, the number of accidental shootings, including fatalities, is on the rise. The penalties for doing so are offensively small. You can kill somebody and just have your licence revoked for 3 months.
S
 
Hunters are known to do stupid things around here. Once they spot a possible kill their adrenaline kicks in and any reasonable thought about safety is lost.
Case in point my Uncle while climbing down from a tree stand shot himself, he didn't discharge the live rounds. Only in hospital for a few weeks.
I have had three run ins with them over 30 years. Mainly shooting into our property. Police or MNR ministry of natural resources won't do anything unless an incident occurs. That means if you get shot.
 
Rather strict rules in the UK about use of rifles suitable for hunting. And the basics are simple enough: you need to be very certain that you are shooting into a bank of ground, so that if you miss, the bullet hits earth not a human or animal.

I'm aware the US and maybe Canada too is different.
 
NickM said:
Our local gamekeeper gives us venison quite often. In return, I do little bits of woodworking for him. The current job is a bit for his gun cabinet to hold the barrels. He doesn't like the design of the piece it came with which doesn't work well for his side-by-side shotguns!
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Hi Nick, you may be interested in this. I made a few years ago for a client for his rifles (inside a walk in safe). It’s as it looks really oak with neoprene for comfort all covered in leather.
Ian.
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AJB Temple said:
Rather strict rules in the UK about use of rifles suitable for hunting. And the basics are simple enough: you need to be very certain that you are shooting into a bank of ground, so that if you miss, the bullet hits earth not a human or animal.

I'm aware the US and maybe Canada too is different.
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Same common sense rules here. You need a ticket to kill large wild game. If you are caught say carrying a high powered rifle and say you are only hunting birds then the fines are huge.
 
To get my licence to use riffles and shotguns for hunting was an intense 5 day course covering all the safety requirements and game identification etc.
This was back in 1979.
 
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