[saganite]

Hmm. I would attend that class.

[shag377]

Last time I went to a hunting camp, the teenagers took care of doing the butchering.

We adults set back and watched. It was our turn to watch after our years of doing the grunt work.

I love it myself.;)

[vladimir998]

Sign me up!

[ASOC]

Good for PSU - doing something that you didn’t learn at Dad’s knee - so to speak.

Butchering a 300 lb hog, now man, that’s work.

[AnAmericanMother]

I'll let the deer process man do the butchering, he has the right equipment and does a better job.

The part everybody REALLY needs to know how to do is to field dress promptly, thoroughly, and in a sanitary way. The deer process man can't do a thing with venison that wasn't field dressed correctly and right away. Best venison I ever ate was shot, carried back into deer camp on the spare tire of my Land Cruiser, and dressed out within 15 minutes.

Two essential tools: a short-bladed folding knife, around 3 1/2 to 4", and a spool of dental floss. A hoist and a clean water source are nice too. (Our deer camp had a concrete pad with a block and tackle, and a hose with a nozzle nearby.)

[hunter112]

Venison 101 class isn't for the faint of heart.

And writing about it for the Philadelphia Inquirer isn't for some city boy who thinks meat comes from the cold counter at Safeway!

[Doctor Don]

I learned on the job with bare hands!

[G8 Diplomat]

Venison 101 class isn't for the faint of heart.

Sounds like my kind of class. I love dissecting stuff.

In bio AP last year my group members were cringing at the site of frog innards while I'm going "WHOA! The intestine's GREEN!" LOL.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Bump...for cousin Dave.......