How to Remove a Deer’s Hind Leg

Video: How to Remove a Venison Hindquarter

The hindquarters of a deer, also known as hams, contain a large proportion of the total meat and some of the choicest cuts. It’s here where you’ll find the sirloin, round roasts, eye of round, and others. The more attention you can pay to your technique as you’re removing the back legs, the more meat will wind up in pretty little white packages in your freezer. In this video, I’m showing how you’d remove the hindquarter from a deer that was taken...

Video: How to Remove Backstraps from a Deer

Every week for the next month or so, we’ll be bringing you in-depth butchering videos and articles to help you make the most of your kills and catches. Janis Putelis, Ryan Callaghan, and other accomplished butchers and cooks will share knife tips and techniques they’ve learned over decades of handling wild game. This week, the Latvian Eagle demonstrates how to remove a whitetail deer backstrap. The backstraps, or loins, are many people’s...

Video: How to Remove Silverskin

Getting rid of tendons, ligaments, and sinew—known collectively as silverskin—is a fact of life for those of us who like to process and cook our own wild game. It’s usually pretty obvious where and how to cut off these white and/or silver portions, but good technique and attention to detail will leave you with more meat and in better shape than if you just hack away at it. Silverskin is fine to eat, but it will cause the meat to contract when it...