Brian's 1st Deer

The end of hunting season brought this family a nice surprise. A deer !! This is Brian's 3rd season hunting and each year has produced nothing but cold days in the tree stand and money spent out of our pockets until now. December 2011, on Brian's first day out for the season, got himself a 6 pointer. I will never again complain about the money that is required for the gear or the license. They paid for themselves with this baby.

Since it was the first deer we took the "hams" or the hind parts of the deer to the local butcher to be processed into ground meat and sausage. This is the box from the Butcher. From this one deer we yielded 11 packages of ground meat and 4 packages of sausage.
This does not include the loins and ribs in the freezer.

We have enjoyed cooking the venison in different ways. And the boys love it when they ask what is for dinner and my response is deer. "Daddy's Deer?" "Yes boys, daddy's deer!"

The head will be getting mounted as his trophy. In addition to seeing the deer, the boys can be his story teller always. They have really enjoyed telling anyone that will listen that their daddy killed a deer. That he used a gun that shot one bullet and 18 came out. (Brian used a shot gun) So each time he went hunting after when he would come home they would ask if he saw or shot anymore deer. They truly love their daddy and can not wait to go out there with him.