Probably the most useful thing those kids will learn!

[Jonathon]

Brett found this and sent it to me, gonna talk about it on a podcast but I wanted to share it https://sports.yahoo.com/hunter-butchers-deer-front-school-170157319.html

[HerbcoFood]

People these days. I process deer in my garage with the door wide open. I can tell it turns off some people but they can get bent.

[gus4416]

Jonathon I see nothing wrong with it it could be a great experience for the young people to see how the real world is in these times we live in it is food that is how it is

[ND Mike]

Jonathon Most of the people that complain are probably the type that thinks meat comes from a grocery store. I am glad I was raised where I was. We even had a meat cutting class in high school where we did deer for the local residents. The school didn’t charge much because we were students being taught how to perform a life skill. I had a great Vocational Agriculture teacher in high school. I learned more from him than all the other teachers combined.

[bocephus]

Jonathon Bet it won’t be long where this will be banned from happening in this town.

[dawg]

When I first got married and moved my wife from the city (Wichita) to a small town, she was mortified when I hung a deer in our backyard to clean it. I heard about it for a week then both of my neighbors did it. It can be an education for some, and a real eye opener for people who have only gotten their meat at a grocery store. I think it’s a good thing for people to know and /or see where their food comes from.

[Departing Contestant]

yeah, but you skin a dog or a cat on the front porch and suddenly everyone is against you…12

[processhead]

While I wouldn’t have a problem with it, I can understand that some people might.Not everyone wants a front row seat to view the dismembering of a dead critter.

I can also sympathize with the guy who doesn’t have a lot of options on places to process his deer. It is his private property, and he may be within his legal rights to hang a deer in his front yard. But just because we can do something doesn’t mean we should do it in all situations or circumstances.

In the hunter education classes that I help teach, we talked about hunter ethics and how as hunters, our personal behavior in public reflects on all hunters as a group. We taught the kids that not everyone is as passionate about hunting and that by using a little discretion, it can make a big difference in how the non-hunting public perceives the hunting community.

Little things like keeping harvested big game out of view when transporting it through populated areas, and changing out of bloody camo while in public after a successful hunt are a couple of things that can help the non-hunting community view hunters in a more favorable light.

As hunters, we already have the deck stacked against us. There are things that we all can do to improve the public’s perception of hunting.

While we may never change the minds of the die-hard anti-hunters, we just might be able to change the mind of those people that haven’t really made up their minds yet, or don’t have a strong opinion one way or the other about hunting.

[salmonmaster]

ND Mike we are losing the war on this topic, we havent lost … yet, but we are losing. For every person that thinks it great, there’s at LEAST one person that thinks it’s not, and we are not ever going to change there mind on it. You can try to educate them, reason with them, and what ever else you can say or do to try to convince them other wise, but in my experience, it never work’s., and I’ve tried for decades. I was brought up around hunting and fishing , like you, but I don’t have to go to far outside my group to find somebody that thinks it disgusting. It’s a shame that this guy was probably feeling great, and proud, as he should have, a couple hours before he got home, and then made to feel bad about it. It’s just the way life is now, you gotta fight for it.

[salmonmaster]

processhead well said.

[dawg]

Departing Contestant
LOL

[processhead]

I also agree that way too many people today have no clue what-so-ever on where their food comes from or how it is produced.

[ND Mike]

processhead I also talk about hunter ethics to the students that I teach hunter’s education/safety to. I tell them to show hunters in a good light as there are way more non hunters or anti-hunters out there.

[ND Mike]

salmonmaster yep! Society has really changed. I’m just glad that I am in ND. You can wear camo year around and no thinks anything about it unless you maybe are in Fargo. Everywhere else it might be a person’s warmest coat so they wear it all winter.

[salmonmaster]

ND Mike ya, I think everything I own is camo, except my truck, and dog, but her name is cammi. Another thing we do is years ago alot of the family always wanted some of that great venison burger ,brats, sticks, sausages that we made every year after hunting season. They really liked the product, but didn’t want anything to do with the process. So we made a deal with them. You want the tasty stuff, you come help. They had to either bone meat, cut pork, or fat ,run the stuffer, grinder, package it or something to get the goodies. It showed them at least a little bit were their food was coming from, and now they actually enjoy it. A couple of the grandkids starting hunting with us, so maybe there’s still hope.

[ND Mike]

salmonmaster that is a great way to start that spark!

[bocephus]

ND Mike Aw now don’t pick on Fargo, they have the Bison, which makes up for some of their other faults.

[bocephus]

processhead I agree with what you are saying. I have taught quite a few people about guns and shooting where I worked because of civilized conversations about shooting and hunting.

[ND Mike]

bocephus yep, but to me that is the only redeeming quality! Hail the Bison, Hail the Bison!

[bocephus]

salmonmaster I remember helping process deer before I was old enough to hunt, and couldn’t wait until I was old enough to hunt, then when I finally was old enough they didn’t have a deer season that year.