Out last night.

[stavross]

Totally agree...I hate shooting anything that can be eaten without an outlet....but I despise the taste of hare and wouldnt touch it . Takes the pee when someone is taking great meat (in the case of venison) paying sod all for it and turning it into dog food....but understand it from their perspective.

I know a lad who supplies a lot of deer to a pet food maker as there is a lack of people taking the deer so allows him to shoot them and get the carcasses sold..albeit for £0.80 or so per Kg...

I’d happily take 80p a kg, the amount I’ve just let walk by over the last few weeks is crazy, just because there’s no outlet for them, years ago we would be out on the deer, rabbits, trout, whatever was about and could do another weeks wages selling it direct to the game dealer or butcher ( before that all turned into a nonsense) or at the local working man’s club, now nobody wants it or you have to jump through too many hoops to get paid a pittance
I could do with finding a dog food place that would pay enough to make it worth my while as I think there’s going to be a lot of hares to deal with over his 2 farms

 

[Mike1979]

I’d happily take 80p a kg, the amount I’ve just let walk by over the last few weeks is crazy, just because there’s no outlet for them, years ago we would be out on the deer, rabbits, trout, whatever was about and could do another weeks wages selling it direct to the game dealer or butcher ( before that all turned into a nonsense) or at the local working man’s club, now nobody wants it or you have to jump through too many hoops to get paid a pittance
I could do with finding a dog food place that would pay enough to make it worth my while as I think there’s going to be a lot of hares to deal with over his 2 farms

Its so wrong ..... no wonder we have issues with population control...and I still see the posts of "game dealer not taking deer"....

I eat what I can but venison 5 or 6 times a week (no matter how much I like it) isnt ideal sometimes ...and I mainly shoot fallow so it doesnt take many to fill a freezer (or 3)

 

[stavross]

I imagine if you offered free venison to a lot of people they would love it all vacuum packed ready to go ...but imagine it with its jacket on...i think most people are so far removed from where their food comes from its staggering. I worked with a lady who said I was cruel shooting bambi...I asked her if she ate chicken which she did...quick chat and I think she saw the irony of what she had said....

Had a funny question at the checkout in Tesco...Is that a cucumber? Nope its a courgette (we are talking about veg as well so keep it clean )

As you say we live in a strange old world

I had exactly that last week, someone I was working with ask me for a deer, went and got him one, took it to him still dressed and he didn’t know what to do with it, he was expecting it oven ready, luckily the old boy across the road from him took it and said he’d do it or that would of ended up as prime fox bait

 

[Mike1979]

I had exactly that last week, someone I was working with ask me for a deer, went and got him one, took it to him still dressed and he didn’t know what to do with it, he was expecting it oven ready, luckily the old boy across the road from him took it and said he’d do it or that would of ended up as prime fox bait

sounds about right. I imagine lots of people would struggle to tell what the animal they are eating looks like when its alive. We keep pigs and sell a few of them (and eat whats left) . I do ask those you want a full pig if they want to chose one and name it...that doesnt tend to go down well

 

[stavross]

sounds about right. I imagine lots of people would struggle to tell what the animal they are eating looks like when its alive. We keep pigs and sell a few of them (and eat whats left) . I do ask those you want a full pig if they want to chose one and name it...that doesnt tend to go down well

My missus thinks that everything is born in plastic, she won’t eat anything that comes from a field and bypasses a butcher, she eats meat but has no idea and doesn’t want to know where it comes from
On another note I’m in her car now as she takes me to an adults only petting zoo if you’d ever met me you’d quickly realise I’m not a petting zoo kind of fella

 

[Foxyboy43]

I imagine if you offered free venison to a lot of people they would love it all vacuum packed ready to go ...but imagine it with its jacket on...i think most people are so far removed from where their food comes from its staggering. I worked with a lady who said I was cruel shooting bambi...I asked her if she ate chicken which she did...quick chat and I think she saw the irony of what she had said....

Had a funny question at the checkout in Tesco...Is that a cucumber? Nope its a courgette (we are talking about veg as well so keep it clean )

As you say we live in a strange old world

Yep - and better it ain’t gonna get!

 

[Smellydog]

I just don't believe it... changing the subject.
Last week I drove 40 minutes to buy powder and then today call in my local only to be offered over half of a 1k tub of n133 for £20

 

[Bo Diddley]

That made for utterly dismal reading - all that wonderful natural meat going to dog food when many people are resorting to “soup kitchens” and meat handouts - usually full of “preservatives”.
That said I suspect that for a variety of reasons many of the possible recipients would refuse such fresh and healthy meat in preference for “ready meals” - what a very strange time we live in….

Totally agree, it makes me wonder what everything has come to if I'm honest. I'm lucky that I prefer game to butcher's meat. I suppose when we grew up, we rarely had butcher's meat and what you never had, you never miss. Thank God I discovered how tasty venison is many moons ago.
When we used to entertain a little, one of my signature dishes was a Game Pie. I won everybody over with them, even the "Picky Ladies"

 

[kenbro]

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I love watching the hares and have a good few on our ground at home...however I also have no issues with people shooting them where they cause harm. I shoot a few on a commercial nursery for a couple of reasons and whilst I dont enjoy doing it the owner wants them shot.

I just don't believe it... changing the subject.
Last week I drove 40 minutes to buy powder and then today call in my local only to be offered over half of a 1k tub of n133 for £20

As you’d just got some I suppose you left that 20 quids worth for someone less fortunate

 

[kenbro]

Totally agree, it makes me wonder what everything has come to if I'm honest. I'm lucky that I prefer game to butcher's meat. I suppose when we grew up, we rarely had butcher's meat and what you never had, you never miss. Thank God I discovered how tasty venison is many moons ago.
When we used to entertain a little, one of my signature dishes was a Game Pie. I won everybody over with them, even the "Picky Ladies"

Butchery’s beef don’t taste the same anymore.
I think they kill them too young now.
Kb.
Ps. If there were no condiments I don’t think I’d bother eating again.

 

[Bo Diddley]

Butchery’s beef don’t taste the same anymore.
I think they kill them too young now.
Kb.

Yeah, agree with you as well Ken.
I once bought a 1/4 of a cow, it's a long story but a mate got gifted it by a lady whose kids had got bored with all the pets, it had all the paperwork and the scoundrel that he was ran it straight into the local abbatoir... he didn't have the freezer space for it all and I was lucky enough to get offered 1/4, it was the tastiest beef I've ever had.
A customer of mine gave me a joint a few weeks ago, Belted Galloway, not to be ungrateful, and they are on grass, but it never knocked my socks off.

 

[Foxyboy43]

Butchery’s beef don’t taste the same anymore.
I think they kill them too young now.
Kb.
Ps. If there were no condiments I don’t think I’d bother eating again.

Spot on KB plus they don’t know how to hang them or for how long! An eating out steak here now is north of £35 yet is tough and tasteless - I have defaulted to duck breast (as we don’t have much easily accessible over here deer-wise) and will not go back to steak - shame really as a good ribeye was my meal of choice. Nowadays home cooking-wise we major on Indonesian dishes for which (fortunately) a pal in Holland supplies the essentials for Lady FB to work her magic.
I really hate the thought of wasted game yet for reasons which baffle me such is the world now that it is all around us - and in times of real need!

PS
God! I really do feel better for the rant…

 

[Nickb]

It’s a shame for us because no matter what time of year it is they aren’t worth sh*t up here, even the dog food lads have stopped taking them, can’t even give them away

Yep it's hard work giving game away up here. Luckily a gundog trainer I know takes the hares and rabbits are sold. Venison is hard to give away too , nobody wants it.

A lot of stuff goes for fox bait which is a shame .

 

[finnbear270]

Out tonight, with a new to me foxing buggy, & there was I thinking that old itch had gone for good. Looks like my phone camera has caught that glitch others have got.

 

[Nickb]

Out tonight, with a new to me foxing buggy, & there was I thinking that old itch had gone for good. Looks like my phone camera has caught that glitch others have got.

Everyone's pics are going wonky , got to be a problem with the site.

 

[AlexD]

I eat what I can but venison 5 or 6 times a week (no matter how much I like it) isnt ideal sometimes ...and I mainly shoot fallow so it doesnt take many to fill a freezer (or 3)

Even my wife is getting picky. She used to love Roe, but when I brought back two bucks this evening her first words were, "Unless they are Sika, I don't want them in the house. Go and get some Sika". She is getting spoilt rotten.

Thankfully we have many friends who love Roe venison, as do I, and there is a silver lining to the Sika cloud: "You can have as many range days as you like, with no complaints from me, if it helps you get more Sika, as I know they are hard to find and shoot". I have not mentioned they are actually easier to shoot because they are bigger than Roe, that is, once you have found one that is standing still for 3 seconds without its bum facing you.

 

[Jackal8]

I think people don’t want any connection with death. My family doesn’t want any game even when butchered and vacuumed. They are happy to eat it though if I invite them for dinner…

Back on track, I broke my arm a month and half ago, now that the bone is ok (no mobility in the arm whatsoever still though, that will take a month more…) I had to scratch the itch and went out. Moderated 223 really doesn’t recoil that much. No jackals, but a young fox was too curious. I am wondering whether the jackals are too smart and don’t show up when using a caller?

 

[kenbro]

Out tonight, with a new to me foxing buggy, & there was I thinking that old itch had gone for good. Looks like my phone camera has caught that glitch others have got.

Nice Finn;
Is that a Bren on top?
Did ya shoot owt?
Ken.

 

[Smellydog]

Out until 24:30, didn't see a thing other than hares and rampant hedgehogs!

 

[Bavarianbrit]

Make sure you only shoot deer with their head up

Game dealer now only taking copper shot with head up & facing Mecca?