Wild Game?

[maxx]

Who here eats only wild game at home?

I think it is a neat concept but I don't think we could manage at home.

 

[jryoung]

My resolution for 2017 is do eat only wild game and wild caught fish. With a moose and two cow elk tags (plus local OTC deer), and a couple of days booked on a fishing charter I'm hoping I can make it happen.

 

[whiskeydog]

freezer is full of elk, deer, antelope, pike, salmon, and walleye...other than the occasional chicken breast and bacon, we eat nothing but wild! we make the meat into steaks, burger, breakfast sausage, brats, salami, pepper sticks, and corned venison roasts

 

[hank4elk]

I eat mostly elk & deer meat these days.
I do have some local bacon & chops in the freezer too.

 

[El Jason]

Other than some chicken from Costco on occasion, and store bought bacon and sausage we pretty much do exclusively wild game.

 

[Sawtooth]

Between elk,deer, chukar, grouse, Kokanee, and salmon from the Pacific, our family's protein requirements are about 80% covered by wild game. Chicken, pork, and meals out cover the other 20%.

 

[Nameless Range]

I eat a lot of wild game, but I doubt it even constitutes 50% of my protein. I think it is really rare that someone only eats wild game.

My resolution for 2017 is do eat only wild game and wild caught fish. With a moose and two cow elk tags (plus local OTC deer), and a couple of days booked on a fishing charter I'm hoping I can make it happen.

This is an awesome goal and I'm interested to hear how it goes. My English teacher in high school only ate wild game that he himself killed. Even after a successful fall he was largely a vegetarian. It takes a lot of meat to last a year. For me, I think the toughest thing would be the reduction in white meat. I probably have chicken at least once a day. I suppose you can shoot a wild pig, and hopefully a lot of grouse.

 

[jryoung]

Wild boar really isn't that "white" though. This picture is a little bleached out as well, it's borderline red meat. Could get a fill on turkeys though if my wife and I were to get our 6 between us in the spring and 4 in the fall.

 

[Nameless Range]

I did not know that. Those, "Pork, the other white meat" commercials got me.

 

[hank4elk]

I did not know that. Those, "Pork, the other white meat" commercials got me.

Yeah,it looks just like cougar....the other,other white meat...lol

 

[Southern Elk]

I would love to try doing this, but I have two problems. My wife doesn't eat much wild game and we like to eat out at least a couple of times a week. I could do it with my western hunts combined with our liberal deer limits here in MS(3 bucks and 5 does). I could also eat a lot of fish, but my wife doesn't eat fish either. I have to cook her chicken when I have fish. Luckily my kids both love wild game.

 

[jryoung]

Not the best picture, but you can see that it tends to be much darker.

 

[VAspeedgoat]

I think this would be hard to pull off without something big like an elk or moose. Maybe fish like salmon or abundant catfish may do it too. It would be hard for my family to eat meat like we do and sustain it on small deer, small game, and stocked trout.

 

[Walkathon]

I'm at about 60% wild game at my house

 

[genesis273]

My family has been 100% wild game for 23 years. I'd hate to know how many whitetail, waterfowl, turkey, crappie, rabbit, etc that has been through my freezer. That's only what we cook at home. We do go out to eat on occasion.

 

[Hunting Wife]

We eat the occasional meal out, and buy chicken or bacon from time to time for a change. And I will buy one ham and one turkey for the holidays. Otherwise all the meat we eat at home is from animals we killed. Use ducks and geese for sausage, with a few saved for cooking. Steaks, burgers, roasts from big game. We pretty much grind all our turkeys to burger since we have some favorite recipes to use that in. Lots of upland birds for cooking. There are only two of us, so we could kill more than enough to meet our needs.

 

[alwayshunting]

We eat about 75% wild game. We do eat out some, but try to limit it. We do not eat a lot of fish, but what we do eat is mostly made up of paddlefish, and speared pike. Our red meat is almost completely wild. We do occasionally get some hamburger from family that I use to mix in with ground elk/antelope. We do not buy any red meat. White meat has been the difficult one. We had more white game meat last year and plan to do better this year, but still buy chicken. Our white meat is made up of turkey, pheasant, sharptail, and partridge. The only other meat we buy is bacon and I do not see us getting away from that.

I have to give my wife a lot of credit for this. Four years ago she struggled to eat wild game, but now eats everything that I do. We have started to plan our hunts around what meat we need for the following year.

 

[Eric.MN]

Proud to say in the last four years we haven't bought any beef at our house. Chicken is about all the store bought meat we buy, well besides the pork added to our venison sausage and what have you. I love making meals where everything on the table is grown/harvested by our own hands, that's a rewarding meal.

 

[LCH]

Lunch meat, bacon, chicken come from the store. The rest of the meat is wild game.

I do like a Wendy's Baconator, or big beef steak from Texas Roadhouse every now and then.

 

[shoots-straight]

Of the red meat we eat, it's over 90% wild game. Elk, deer, moose, turkey, whatever.