Guy Cisternino and Deer meat

**Gregzs** · 01-21-2010, 12:31 AM

http://mdtv.musculardevelopment.com/...ding-food.html

The video is about a half hour long.

**V4750** · 01-21-2010, 07:48 AM

With a average doe you could get 95-125lbs of meat. In some states you can kill two deer a season which would provide you with alot of lean meat. Deer meat taste different than beef. I like the taste of elk better than deer meat. To butcher a deer would cost you about $150 which would make the price per pound pretty cheep.

**cook** · 01-21-2010, 08:02 AM

I get alot of it free.I don`t hunt or I haven`t since I was a kid but there are alot of deerhunters down here who do it as a sport or hobby.Some of them don`t even like the meat or they have more than they can eat.Anyway every winter I have a couple of buddies who load me up with deer steaks and sausage.

**juiceinator3000** · 01-21-2010, 10:44 AM

i was just talking about doing this the other day. i think its a great idea considering BB is an outrageously expensive habit

**anabolic fyre** · 01-21-2010, 10:52 AM

how hard is it to butcher the deer urself??

**MikeS** · 01-21-2010, 11:06 AM

Cisternino looks RUFF

**cook** · 01-21-2010, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by anabolic fyre

how hard is it to butcher the deer urself??

I called a buddy and he said he gets it done for between 75 to100$.He said cutting it up yourself would be quiet a chore.You would have to skin it and cut through alot of bone.At the meat market they have the saws made for that.Not to mention the guts and blood you would have to clean up.Also they can grind up hamburger meat out of it and can do it with almost no fat in it.I`m sure that would be next to impossible at home.

**anabolic fyre** · 01-21-2010, 12:33 PM

lol good point i guess, i always wonderd wat the process was to skinnin animals to eat emm

**TigerUpperCut** · 01-21-2010, 12:33 PM

never had deer i heard it taste weird

**TigerUpperCut** · 01-21-2010, 12:34 PM

guy looks like he been eating too much deer lol

**Big Sky Guy** · 01-21-2010, 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by V4750

With a average doe you could get 95-125lbs of meat. In some states you can kill two deer a season which would provide you with alot of lean meat. Deer meat taste different than beef. I like the taste of elk better than deer meat. To butcher a deer would cost you about $150 which would make the price per pound pretty cheep.

Not a chance of you getting 95-125 lbs of meat from a doe. It may weight that dressed out = gutted. But you will not cut and wrap 95-125 lbs of meat from an average doe.

If you put 50 lbs in the freezer you have a very nice doe. We are picky and much of the sinew and tendon containing portions like forearms and neck meat go to the cats, so we tend to get 35-40 lbs from a nice doe.

Grinding at home is not that difficult, just expensive to get set up with good equipment. We mix out hamburger 50-50 with cubed up roast from a local rancher to get enough fat to keep the patties together. Still an ultralean burger with decent flavor.

If you hunt down south where it is hot, the deer get smaller, so your take home is even less.

I agree that elk are better tasting. Deer can be quite different, particularly mule deer as they eat scrubbier foods. Cornfed whitetails from the mid-west can have quite a nice flavor!

**s2h** · 01-21-2010, 11:05 PM

Originally Posted by anabolic fyre

how hard is it to butcher the deer urself??

it's not hard(maybe 1 1/2 hours to quater and package) ,i've been huntn since i was a kid,a great source of lean meat w/ very little fat,i use alot of deer and elk meat during pre contest.The tenderloin is very tasty and is a great alternative to chicken w/less fat!

**s2h** · 01-21-2010, 11:13 PM

Originally Posted by Big Sky Guy

Not a chance of you getting 95-125 lbs of meat from a doe. It may weight that dressed out = gutted. But you will not cut and wrap 95-125 lbs of meat from an average doe.

If you put 50 lbs in the freezer you have a very nice doe. We are picky and much of the sinew and tendon containing portions like forearms and neck meat go to the cats, so we tend to get 35-40 lbs from a nice doe.

Grinding at home is not that difficult, just expensive to get set up with good equipment. We mix out hamburger 50-50 with cubed up roast from a local rancher to get enough fat to keep the patties together. Still an ultralean burger with decent flavor.

If you hunt down south where it is hot, the deer get smaller, so your take home is even less.

I agree that elk are better tasting. Deer can be quite different, particularly mule deer as they eat scrubbier foods. Cornfed whitetails from the mid-west can have quite a nice flavor!

true our deer in texas are much smaller the only bonus is we have extra tags that vary depending on the rancher and what he wants killed that year,so we can kill up to 15 or so on one given hunt if the ranch is over populated,the county i hunt in has the highest deer pop. in the state so we have a weekend in Jan,that we call "doe blowin'it;s a good way to fill the freezer for the year,then we have a big gathring in the barn of about 10 or so guys and everybody has a task from grinding to wraping and we can get them all processed in one evening then we just split all the meat up!