How to convert a backyard deer into dinner
Everybody knows that the best and most effective backyard deer
deterrent is a well placed bullet.
I know there's still a thing or two I could learn on how to convert
a backyard deer into dinner, which has promted me to put WM. Hovey Smith's new book
on the list of books I want to read.
You might have noticed from my last
post our local library only had a juvenile book on the subject, and
although it covered some interesting subjects in regards to deer
behavior, it said nothing about how to shoot and dress out a deer. This
strikes me as odd because deer hunting almost seems like a religion
around here. Perhaps when I hunt down a copy of Backyard Deer Hunting
I'll donate it to the library after Anna and I devour it.
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This is information that is normally passed down and therefore hard to find info on. I saw a great instructional video on field dressing deer on youtube. Maybe start there.
As far as bullet placement, just look at any archery target deer and it is obvious. Close range and accurate shoots can be placed to the head but only if you are confident in your skill.
Wm. Hovey Smith, the author of "Backyard Deer Hunting: Converting deer to dinner for pennies per pound," now also has a free radio program on VoiceAmerica Sports Internet Radio titled "The Backyard Sportsman."
This is a basic how-to-do-it program that takes the audience through the basics of hunting, hunting tools, wild game cooking (field dressing and packaging included) as well as 21 modules on starting your own home-based business.
It helps if you have "Backyard Deer Hunting" to follow along. However, the author also has videos up on YouTube "Cleaning a Road-Killed Deer" and "Cooking Deer Stew" among others.
The shows are archived on Smith's show page (two are up now on bowfishing and squirrel hunting) so they can be heard anytime and also on Apple's iTunes. "Backyard Deer Hunting - The Video" is in preperation and will also be available this Fall. Advanced orders are not being taken on the author's website. www.hoveysmith.com.
If you send him your E-mail address to hoveysmith@bellsouth.net by Sept. 1, you will be put in a drawing for a free, 3-day deer hunt with Smith, where he will guide you through the hunting, killing, cleaning and cooking of a whitetailed deer. All you pay for is the GA hunting license, about $150 for non-residents, and you must have passed your hunter ed. in your home state.
If you want basic deer killing, cleaning, cooking and processing info. Smith is giving it to you in book, video and audio form in various formats and prices.