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Javelina Turned into a Year's Worth of Meals

The holidays have taken on a new meaning for me dating and now married into a large hunting family (blood relatives and friends).

What better time to get everyone back together to process meat than during the holidays when everyone is in town and looking to lay low anyway?

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Bear Teriyaki Stir Fry

I never thought I would enjoy bear. It was such an out of the ordinary meat and we have only had it once in my household growing up. That was until my brother, James, waited nearly 14 years to earn enough Wisconsin bear points to harvest his own back in fall of 2016. 

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Copy of WILD CHILD by Josephine Pence

I never understood hunting. I never understood why one would get up at the crack of dawn and go sit in the cold with deer urine all around them. I never understood why one would spend hours in a tree stand with the slight promise of returning with meat. Truthfully, I was pretty terrified of killing and taking an animal's life. Now, at 25 years old, Ifinally understand.

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How well do YOU know your Wild Game meats?

I have been cooking wild game since I was young and have learned the art of how to prepare it properly. Through this experiment I was able to see if people could taste the difference between a variety of different wild game including, elk, deer, antelope, and bighorn sheep. I was shocked with the results that not a single person was able to get at least one of them correct. It shows that people can not taste the difference and truly enjoy different types of wild game even if they have never tried it before.

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