How to Remove a Deer’s Hind Leg

Trophy Meals: A MeatEater’s Guide to Cooking Wild Turkeys

After a long winter, spring gobbler season is the hunting equivalent of spring break for college students. It is a great cure for cabin fever and offers hunters a nice change of pace from eating venison for several months. A single wild turkey can provide several meals and can be prepared using a wide variety of cooking styles. This is especially true if you’re willing to use every part of your turkey. Don’t be the lazy hunter who only pulls the...

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...