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I posted here on Reddit before about how I cook venison steak.
This time I changed my method a little after some of the things I learned from Reddit.
Before, I would thaw the frozen venison and put it in salt water for 2 or 3 days before cooking it.
This time, after taking it out of the salt water, I left it uncovered in the refrigerator overnight.
The surface was pretty dry when I took it out the next day. When I cooked it, it got a really nice brown crust.
After that I wrapped it in aluminum foil and let it cook a little more from the heat.
It came out nicely browned on the outside and juicy inside.
And honestly, it was really good.
The flavor of the venison and the browned crust together surprised me.
Reddit has actually made me try things differently.
How do you like to cook and eat venison?

Got my Kudu bull on the first day of my hunt. Measured 50.5 and 50.25 with 10.25 bases and a 34.5 spread.

6 more animals to go!

22-250 55gr vmax > chicken stealer

Used my sous vide to get filet and loin to 126°, seared in beef tallow, then base a simple red wine reduction sauce to top it. Never had elk taste so good.

For those who aren't familiar with my previous posts, during covid my Vietnamese neighbor who has only been in the US a few years would always ask me for game meat. I kept telling him that he should learn to harvest it himself and that I would mentor him if he was interested. Finally in 2024 he decided he wanted to give it a go and took his hunters safety course and applied for tags in Nevada and Utah.

2024 he drew a muzzleloader Antelope tag in Nevada. We hunted for a couple days spot and stalk and he harvested a nice cookie cutter buck. In 2025 he drew Nevada mule deer rifle tag and on the last day of his hunt we killed a decently wide forky.

Well this year he drew 3 tags! Archery antelope in Utah, Archery deer in Utah, and a cow elk rifle tag in Nevada.

He bought a bow in March and has been practicing relentlessly for about 4 months. I'm talking 30 to 50 shots a day and he never misses a day. Lots of trips to the 3D archery range. I even taught him how to tune his own bow and cut and Fletch his own arrows. It's been a fun experience.

His season started on Saturday and I went up with him on Sunday after the storm's cleared and we chased a few antelope on foot. Getting a few stalks in on some good bucks to no avail. We did have a blind setup just in case but spent most of the time up there on foot walking them down. This morning I had to leave early to get back to town for a doctor's appointment and I left him up there all by himself. He decided to sit in his blind all day today in the heat. These are the pictures he sent me about an hour ago.

I'm so proud...

Now onto his Mule Deer buck tag.

Edit:

Previous posts if anybody's interested.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Hunting/s/xgYXqYAmqI

https://www.reddit.com/r/Hunting/s/LTwaPiMuFj

Hey guys I really want to hunt a North Carolina black bear, and I want to increase my odds. I have places I can stay in almost every part of the state. What’s the best way to do this? Even though I grew up there I don’t know anyone who bear hunts. My dad does have a big bear coming on his property but he hasn’t baited the bear and idk if it will be there when season opens. I’m willing to do whatever hunt style I need to. Still hunt, sit in a stand, bait (but unfortunately only have two weeks of time), hire a guide, hire a dog hunting guide, etc. I’m hoping for any and all advice to get a bear in the freezer.

I love hunting deer in the rain!

I’m fairly new to trail cams but I got two I need to put up but I’m not sure where to put them. I live in central Alberta so don’t know if that helps or not but it’s all whitetail.

NC piedmont. Is this guy 2.5 or 3.5 years old?

There's a proposed rollback of the roadless rule. I put some things together to show the scope. Feedback highly welcome -- want to put something compelling together w/ the data. This would be catastrophic in my opinion. You can use the specific map points to help craft your message once the comment period opens. Specific is way better than vague.

Our new moderator, u/nehpets99 (welcome! And this is not meant in any kind of antagonistic way, I promise), has proposed moving repetitive questions to a megathread and/or referring them to a wiki, and I thought I would start a post discussing how such a thing could be organized.

Note: I think that the kind of post in question serves as a good introduction for new hunters to the community, but even with that being said, there is nothing wrong with exploring what a wiki/megathread would look like.

# CATEGORIES

Brand is obvious, and probably the simplest to implement; Backfire.tv has an extensive list of modern sporting rifles with a downloadable database of their accuracy tests, as well as surveys of reliability and issues. The most debate you are likely to see here is "quality vs price."

Rifle type is pretty straightforward; bolt- vs lever-action vs semi-auto vs single-shot. Again, some basic discussions, but the pros and cons are pretty straightforward.

Cartridge is the tricky part. What metrics are we using? Go to five different hunting sites on the Internet, and you will get five different charts of which cartridge is appropriate for which game (see attached image), none of which hold up to a moment's investigation; First Nations people in Canada hunt moose with .22LR, and there's no particular reason not to use a 338 Lapua on coyote or groundhogs (unless you want the meat, for some reason).

Then you have to discuss bullet construction, which opens up its own can of worms.

I think this whole approach is going to be problematic, so how about:

# LINEAR ORGANIZATION

Start with a "quick picks" section, i.e. "Common Deer Cartridges: .243, 6.5CM, .270, 30-30, .308, 30-06," "Common Elk Cartridges: .270, .308, 30-06, 7 Rem Mag," etc, maybe in a chart with game on one axis and environment, i.e. forest, plains, mountains, etc, on the other.

Then a section on game; deer/elk, different breeds and sexes, common ranges at which they are hunted, etc.

Then a section on environment: Heavy forest, open forest, forested mountains, open mountains, etc.

I would like to see a section breaking down individual cartridges... but there are hundreds! I think you might be better off breaking them down by caliber and noting bullet weight and powder charge (i.e. power/range) within each caliber. Bullet construction still has to be included, though.

How about a "By budget" section? "Best rifle/optic for $500/1000/1500," etc

Optics is going to be an entirely separate thing, and the arguments tend to wind up ankle-deep in blood. I would honestly leave this out, entirely, or at least limit it to types and appropriate magnification by range.

Maybe a section on legality? This would be tough just in the US, though, much less internationally.

I would also like to see a "Common Myths" section, but again, you are just asking for a huge fight over what goes into it.

This are just some thoughts :)

Had a long weekend on a lovely property that is unfortunately absolutely plagued with feral pigs- between myself and a mate we were able to get 42 pigs over our time there. Most during the day on foot stalking in, some at night with night vision (though that is less hunting imo and more just ‘shooting’).

Used a howa mini in 6mm arc, Springfield 1903 in .25-06 and a Rossi 92 in .44-40. The latter did quite well, in the last pic can see the shot entered just in front of the right shoulder, through the chest cavity then out the abdomen on the left side, the pig was almost head on at 10m and closing.

I’m looking getting into hunting this year with my brother and need some hunting gear, what are some thoughts on brands from Amazon?

No announcement for a production version yet.

Would be hilarious for deer but unironicaly good for hogs.

While hunting pigeons 5am this guy wondered to my cover. I guess my camo is working. Deer season starts 1st of September.