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This Season’s Best Venison Recipe

By
Karie Engels
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Friends and family members are not always warm to the idea of eating wild game. More often than not, the reason for their dislike is that they sampled it when it had been over-cooked it into a pile of dry, grey shoe leather. If this is the case, this recipe is sure to turn them into venison lovers for life.
While venison loin is delicious as the lone centerpiece of any meal, the addition of roasted chestnuts gives this dish a velvety feel that is uniquely autumn. Head out the garden or local farmers market for butternut  squash, onion, garlic and start chopping.
Venison Loin with Butternut Squash, Lentils and Chestnut Cream
 
Ingredients
  • 2 pounds venison loin
  • 1 pound butternut squash
  • 2 ounces lentils
  • 1 onion
  • 4 ounces chestnuts
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1 bay leaf
  • thyme, to taste
  • vegetable stock
  • salt and pepper to taste
  1. Roast chestnuts in hi-temp oven. Pre-heat oven, 400 degrees. Using a sharp vegetable knife, cut a small cross in the pointed end of each chestnut. Place cut side up on cookie sheet, and roast about 30 mins ( begin checking at 20 mins ) until skin begins to peel or curl away from chestnut.
  2. Cool just enough to handle, chestnuts need to be warm for the peel to be removed.
  3. Puree into a cream adding vegetable stock if needed. Peel squash and onion, chop in to small cubes. “Loosely” mince garlic and toss in a sauté pan with the squash and onion cubes.
  4. In med pan, sauté vegetables in olive oil. Add lentils, thyme, bay leaves, vegetable stock and boil until lentils soften. Texture of lentils should resemble a risotto.
  5.  Salt and pepper your venison loin and toss on med-high grill. Cook until internal temp reaches 120.
    When desired internal temp is reached, remove from grill and place on cutting board. Let rest in a loose foil “tent” for 15 minutes.
  6.  Pour chestnut puree in base of serving plate, followed by lentil mixture. Top the dish with venison loin and serve.
    Depending on your appetite, this serves approx. 6

Recipe adapted from <A HREF=”http://thelatinkitchen.com/r/recipe/venison-loin-butternut-squash-lentils-and-chestnut-cream” target=”_blank”>The Latin Kitchen</A>

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Q&A with Huntress Julie McQueen

By
Joe Byers
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Women have been active hunters for decades, yet haven’t gotten the attention they deserve until recently. Social media has propelled the achievements of some women into the stratosphere, sometimes with negative consequences. Oddly, when women step from their stereotype, a segment of the public cannot accept their choices and have reacted violently, sometimes with near criminal intent.

Huntress Julie McQueen presents an excellent role model for women in the outdoors and speaks to her current lifestyle in this OutdoorHub interview.

Hunting Legends 4 074Julie McQueen is the co-host of Brotherhood Outdoors and a producer for Backstage & Backroads Productions. Her passion for hunting and sharing the outdoors with others is evident from her on-camera time and social media pages. I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Julie about her favorite kind of hunting, superpowers, and working side-by-side with her husband.

Britney: Please tell us a little about your background in the outdoors. Who introduced you to hunting and fishing?

Julie: I grew up on an Indian reservation in Oklahoma where there are plenty of ponds to fish, so that was my main attractant to the outdoors. My parents met in the Army, so it was ingrained in me from a young age [how to] shoot, clean, and properly handle firearms. I didn’t have anyone around to take me hunting when I was young, so when I became old enough to take myself hunting, I did just that. I bought some hunting magazines and learned what I could from them. I borrowed a 7mm Magnum for my first deer season, and sat alone in the woods all day until a buck walked by. I harvested him, and then had to figure out what the next step was. It was different back then—I couldn’t just Google it on a smartphone. I learned by trial and error.

How to Share Your Harvest [VIDEO]

By
Joe Byers
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Is that big buck or doe more venison than you can store. Why not donate all or a portion to the needy.? Here's how.
Is that big buck or doe more venison than you can store? Why not donate all or a portion to the needy? Here’s how.

Sharing venison with local and national organizations is a win/win proposition for everyone.

Some butcher shops will accept an entire deer while other may charge a small processing fee with the remaining venison donated to soup kitchens and other organizations that feed the hungry.

As you will see in this video from the National Shooting Sports Foundation, one operation allows the hunter to keep the backstraps and tenderloin with the remainder ground up and donated as protein.

If your luck runs off the charts, consider donating to a local organization, as the NSSF explains.

Photo (top): The Blade

Mount Your Deer for Under Ten Dollars

By
Joe Byers
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European mounts can preserve the memory at a fraction of the cost of a shoulder mount.

“Should I get it mounted?”

That’s a question many experienced hunters ponder when that trophy they’ve been chasing finally makes a mistake.

Experienced hunters may have several, maybe many, animals on their walls, so adding another becomes a matter of space and funds. Plus, some family members may have issues with it… “It’s looking at me!”

A skull mount provides a tasteful memory without the taxidermy eyes. The folks at SkullHooker have made a specialty of the European-style mount and now offer a skull plate shield for $9.99. You could mount squirrels at that price. Check out the details.

skullcap4894705SkullHooker, the company that revolutionized the way hunters display their European skull-mount trophies, has introduced the new Skull Cap cover to create an affordable, clean and stylish presentation for sawed-off skullcap trophies. The Skull Cap is molded in a lightly textured and stylized brown polymer that also can be easily painted to suit the users needs. Designed for small to mid-sized antlered or horned game animals, the Skull Cap can also be trimmed to fit larger species. The Skull Cap is designed to be used with or without the newly revised SkullHooker Bone Bracket hanging mount.

The new Skull Cap is the easy and attractive answer to dressing up an ugly or poorly cut skullcap. It is available at sporting goods retailers nationwide and conveniently online at skullhooker.com for a suggested retail price of just $9.99. Founded in 2009, SkullHooker was the first company to offer professionally crafted and fully adjustable European-style skull-mounting brackets that naturally showcase trophy animals in an elegant manner. The SkullHooker mounting system for European mounts is available in two sizes to accommodate most species horns and antlers: the Big Hooker and the Little Hooker. And now, the Bone Bracket and Skull Cap are available in one size for smaller- to medium-sized skull-capped game species.

Product Spotlight: Tenzing Turkey Vest/Chair

By
Joe Byers
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A turkey vest should work like a carpenter’s tool belt, carrying the tools a turkey craftsman needs so they can be accessed and used without looking. Tenzing packs are built on decades of outdoor packing experience, so it’s only logical that they take their creative carrying methods into the turkey woods. This vest has specific pockets for the most commonly used calls, a seat pad to smooth out the rocks, and a unique feature that will turn it into a chair, an excellent feature when there’s no large tree trunk to sit against. Here’s the information from the manufacturer.

Weighing in at just over two-pounds, the TZ TV14 turkey vest fits like a pack, courtesy of adjustable pack-style shoulder straps, which ensure a comfortable fit against any hunter’s torso. A channeled, air-cooled back pad lends additional comfort to the wearer while walking, running, gunning or sitting on the integral, fold-down, padded seat. The seat deploys and stows simply, securely and instantly thanks to its silent, magnetic fasteners.

tp14_1[1] Once seated, turkey hunters can call ‘em closer or wait ‘em out with a minimal movement, as the TZ TV14 is engineered for complete comfort and places every turkey hunting tool within easy reach. Calls, shells and other items stay organized and readily accessible in a network of specialized pockets, including dedicated places for box calls, slates, strikers, diaphragm calls, shells and more. Don’t forget the camera, either, for that hard-earned grip-and-grin; the TZ TV14 has room. A total capacity of 1700 cubic inches ensures ample space inside for decoys, snacks, choke tubes, water bottles and more. The TZ TV14 is available in Realtree Xtra or Mossy Oak Obsession, providing critical defense against a gobbler’s eyesight in any setting. Check tenzingoutdoors.com for more details.

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How to Hunt the Peak Rut [VIDEO]

By
Joe Byers
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SD Rifle Deer 2012 094November is a call to action in the deer woods.

Bucks and does are answering the mating mandate and a host of exciting behaviors can bring them past your stand.

During the rut, bucks concentrate on does, not on food, water, or traditional travel routines. This may seem to make hunting easier, since you can go where you usually find does, like food plots, progressing clear cuts, or agricultural fields. However, many hunters will be surprised to learn that does change their behavior in the rut as well.

This video from GrowingDeer.TV lays out a successful and thought-provoking strategy for hunting the rut.

Photo (top): Bowsite.com

Product Spotlight: Sidewinder Hip Quiver Adaptor

By
Joe Byers
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Most target and 3-D archers use a hip quiver, choosing not to attach a quiver to their bow as hunters often do. However, when fall comes around, those same archers are used to shooting a bow without a quiver, and side quivers can be noisy and become a real pain when walking through brush. In addition, crossbow quivers can become awkward when mounted on a bow. The Kwikee Kwiver folks have simplified this situation with a hip quiver adapter that allows an archer to remove a bow quiver and attach it to the hip with a snap. The quiver adapts for various angles to provide a variety of access points. Here are the details from the manufacturer.

Now you can carry your quiver of arrows/bolts without having to attach it to your bow. The Sidewinder hip mount for detachable quivers is designed to mount any standard quiver bracket. Best of all, it rotates the quiver to a position you choose, where it will stay. It is also a great solution for crossbows with proprietary mounting configurations.

The Sidewinder’s ingenious design keeps your arrows easily accessible, whether you’re stalking, sitting or kneeling. Best of all, there’s no leg strap, no interference and no arrow flagging. The Sidwinder comes with the traditional Kwikee bracket.

For more information, visit the Kwikee Kwiver website.

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More Girls Are Hunting Deer

By
Joe Byers
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Brian Ellison of Rockford Michigan with his daughter, 15, and 10-point buck.

-04b78ce521c3dc49[1]Father-son hunts have been a bonding experience for generations. Now, more and more fathers are using hunting to build a stronger relationship with their daughters.

My daughter was very athletic through middle and high school, yet never showed an interest in hunting until her mid 20s. I was so excited to take her deer hunting for the first time, I forgot the rifle and had to make a mad dash from the woods to retrieve it.

In a world of social media and the latest whiz-bang technology, deer hunting is a means of communicating meaningful experiences that are easy to enjoy and share. Working together to strengthen a relationship bridge through an interaction with nature gives each party much to enjoy and remember, as this MLive article clearly presents.

Armed with 20-gauge shotgun and her father, Bryan, by her side, 16-year-old Madison Baar found confidence in her abilities as a new hunter.  Having first fired a gun just two weeks before the Sept. 20-21 Michigan Youth Hunt, Madison found success in the woods that Saturday morning.

“At first the adrenaline was going through me,” Madison said of shooting her eight-point buck. “I was excited and a little nervous.”  Those moments in the woods and fields are being shared by an increasing number of girls, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

“In the olden days it was the men getting away from the family to head up to deer camp and the woman stayed at home to take care of the kids,” DNR wildlife research specialist Brent Rudolph said. “Nowadays it’s changed so much and if it’s only the dad and the boys out hunting it lessens that integrated role in today’s family.”

Rainbow Trout Devours Rodents

By
Shannon Rikard
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If you’ve ever tended a garden, you’ve likely encountered shrews and the havoc they wreak with their tunneling, chewing, and ruining of plants. Getting a cat is the common solution for taming shrews and other similar critters like moles, voles, and mice. But LiveScience reports a recent find in Alaska suggests that rainbow trout with a taste for shrews could be a better solution.

Researchers recently opened up a rainbow trout in Alaska’s Togiak National Wildlife Refuge, and were surprised to find the fish had eaten nearly 20 shrews, a mouse-size mammal.

To make matters stranger, the fish was relatively small, measuring only 19 inches (48 centimeters) long, said Mark Lisac, a fish biologist at Togiak National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

This rainbow trout report trumps the previous record of seven shrews eaten (at least that Lisac is aware of), which was held by a grayling, another species of fish that “keys in on shrews even more” than rainbows, Lisac said.

Trout may not solve your garden’s rodent problem since they lack legs, but it may be time to break out your mouse lures and go fishing.

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Photo: Alaska Department of Fish and Game

How to Train Your Beagle to Hunt Rabbits

By
Jason Houser
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You don’t have to have a beagle to hunt rabbits successfully, but it makes things easier.

Being able to train a beagle is not science, especially with a little understanding of how to go about it.

Outdoor Life has a good article that will give you the advice you need to get any beagle ready to chase rabbits.

Beagles are born with an innate drive to hunt, but just as with other breeds, some dogs have more drive than others. You can wake up this desire in a slow-starting beagle by dragging a rabbit skin along the ground for your young dog to follow… [continued]

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