How many deer would you need to harvest a year to feed a family?

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  • Jaybird1980

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    That's true. If I wanted it bad enough I suppose I could gut it, drag it back to the car, quarter it, wash it out with a couple gallon jugs of water, then wrap it in trash bags and chuck it in the hatchback for the drive home.

    Apartment neighbors: "Whatcha got there?"

    Me covered in blood with a flintlock rifle and trash bags: "A smoothie."
    I know a guy who always butchers his deer into primals in the field. Nothing but meat comes home with him. He says he hates gutting so he avoid it.

     

    spfldbowhunter

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    Last time I fed my family for the year with deer as the main protein I shot 6. It was me, my wife, and our first child. I shared a lot with other people and had a lot of summer sausage made that I gave as holiday gifts so I’d say the three of us did alright on 4.5 deer for the year.
     

    Hookeye

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    Field dressing deer is no big deal, if you have a way of easily getting the deer out of the field/ home in such a big chunk.

    Takes about 5 mins to dress a deer, no blood past wrists and none on clothes.

    Some people are surgeons, and others are hacks. Kinda funny.
     

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