Cheap grilling meats...

[Choporoz]

55 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Another potential meat source that we are not utilizing anymore but easily could is horse.  .

Years ago, while stationed in Japan, I took wife and kids to local 'horse meat festival' every year.  After parade and games, they brough thinly sliced raw horse meat around....and we grilled fast over hot coals in dugout logs.....amazing....overcook it and it gets a little tough, however.  Flavor is on par with good beef cuts.

[throttleplate]

17 hours ago, BayouSlide said:

 

Much leaner...and a heck of a lot more work than store bought when you have to haul it from the woods and do the butchering yourself. Only the shoulders, hams, loins and backstrap are worth dealing with.

 

Dragged the first one (176 pounds on the scale) I ever shot two miles out of the woods with a dog chain and dog training rope attached to a stick. Had been bird hunting when my dogs cornered it. Had to wait for a passerby to help me load it into the back seat of my 4Runner. ?

 

Better prepared since that day and have an area in a local wildlife management area that I can access by boat that holds a sounder or two which I'll hunt every year. They wise up quickly so it's easier to target (and haul out of the woods) the young 80- to 90-pounders.

 

The shoulders and hams need to be cooked long and slow, either in a ceramic smoker or the oven, and makes pulled pork as good as anything from the store.

 

The big old boars supposedly are pretty rank smelling so they won't make good meat, but the smaller males aren't and are as tasty as the females.

 

 

Here's what a 176-pound wild hog looks like (for comparison, I'm 6 ft. 1 in.).

if confronted with the one in your pic will it attack you?

[BayouSlide]

33 minutes ago, throttleplate said:

if confronted with the one in your pic will it attack you?

 

Normally a wild pig, if it's been exposed to people, takes off. They have a super sense of smell but bad eyesight so, sometimes, a younger one will stare at you from the brush to try to figure out who or what you are if the wind is in your face.

 

My two German Shorthaired Pointers ran down this boar down and pinned it, one on the muzzle and one on a hindquarter with the pig trying to get at the dogs. It was like watching a wolf pack.  I ran up to it and shot it in the neck at 3 feet with birdshot and killed it.

 

My dogs have run into 3 pigs and were only injured once, by a 110# or so sow...my younger dog got his chest hide sliced open and my older female got a tooth puncture in the hind leg. The sow didn't have tusks but her teeth were razor sharp. That time I had to kick the pig in the rear to get it off the dogs so I could kill it when it turned towards me.

 

Unfortunately the damp brushy areas that hold woodcock are also ideal pig habitat: I've had my dogs on point at a patch of brush and have a woodcock fly out on one side and a pig run out the other.

 

This photo is the skull of the pig in the picture.

 

[deaknh03]

2 hours ago, throttleplate said:

if confronted with the one in your pic will it attack you?

No because its dead

[T-Billy]

19 hours ago, gimruis said:

You could have just done that to hot dogs you know.

 

I didn't know they made Largemouth hotdogs. I'll look for them next time I'm at Wally World.

[Catt]

I'm buying brisket cheaper the ground beef!

[TnRiver46]

3 hours ago, T-Billy said:

I didn't know they made Largemouth hotdogs. I'll look for them next time I'm at Wally World.

They have smoked whitefish sausage for sale on Lake Michigan, it’s awesome 

[J Francho]

On 5/18/2022 at 8:26 PM, NHBull said:

Flank steak can still be had relatively cheap and can be prepared as good as a sirloin……just a little more work

I've got a really nice one from the butcher to grill for my birthday this weekend.

 

It's interesting to see alt-cuts on high end restaurants' menus commanding steep prices.  It's sort of like they're promoting them over pricier cuts.  I'm thinking they are cashing in on higher margins on the novelty.  I'm talking $40 skirt steaks and the like.  

[throttleplate]

some of us eat fish, fish eat bugs. So whats wrong with eating what the fish eat as we are essentially eating it allready in the fish meat.

[BrianMDTX]

On 5/18/2022 at 7:08 PM, Bird said:

lol. He said cheap! By the time you add up guns, bows, ammunition, arrows, broadheads, clothing for hot, warm, cool and cold temps, stands, blinds, leases, etc., venison is one of the most expensive meats around! ?

[roadwarrior]

Yeah, pheasant is about $75 per ounce.

 

                                                 

[hokiehunter373]

52 minutes ago, BrianMDTX said:

lol. He said cheap! By the time you add up guns, bows, ammunition, arrows, broadheads, clothing for hot, warm, cool and cold temps, stands, blinds, leases, etc., venison is one of the most expensive meats around! ?

What are you talking about @BrianMDTX?!? I tell my wife all those things barely cost a dime!

[Bird]

2 hours ago, BrianMDTX said:

lol. He said cheap! By the time you add up guns, bows, ammunition, arrows, broadheads, clothing for hot, warm, cool and cold temps, stands, blinds, leases, etc., venison is one of the most expensive meats around! ?

Yes, after you factor all that in, you could go eat seafood every night for several years. Lol

[BrianMDTX]

2 hours ago, hokiehunter373 said:

What are you talking about @BrianMDTX?!? I tell my wife all those things barely cost a dime!

Mine, too. But she ain’t on BR or AT lol! 

[TnRiver46]

21 hours ago, BrianMDTX said:

lol. He said cheap! By the time you add up guns, bows, ammunition, arrows, broadheads, clothing for hot, warm, cool and cold temps, stands, blinds, leases, etc., venison is one of the most expensive meats around! ?

Not when your friends give it to you 

[slonezp]

Soylent Green

 

[DitchPanda]

1 minute ago, slonezp said:

Soylent Green

I don't care if its people...when ground beef gets to $9lb this will be a real option 

[MN Fisher]

10 minutes ago, DitchPanda said:

I don't care if its people...when ground beef gets to $9lb this will be a real option 

Long Pig - it's what's for dinner.

[slonezp]

Bought some chicken thighs today for $1.29 a pound. In the past it's been .99 a pound not a real big deal. But, when I goth them home, I come to find out they did some creative packaging. The thighs were not trimmed and I had to cut off excess bone and gristle. I probably cut off 1/2lb of scraps before I threw them in the freezer.

 

Crab legs have been crazy expensive. 

 

What I've been doing is bulking up on sale items. 

 

Could always go vegan.... 

[TnRiver46]

2 minutes ago, slonezp said:

Bought some chicken thighs today for $1.29 a pound. In the past it's been .99 a pound not a real big deal. But, when I goth them home, I come to find out they did some creative packaging. The thighs were not trimmed and I had to cut off excess bone and gristle. I probably cut off 1/2lb of scraps before I threw them in the freezer.

 

Crab legs have been crazy expensive. 

 

What I've been doing is bulking up on sale items. 

 

Could always go vegan.... 

I don’t think that’ll help much, it’s not like veggies are staying the same price . Fertilizer is going up, so will veggies 

[MN Fisher]

13 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I don’t think that’ll help much, it’s not like veggies are staying the same price . Fertilizer is going up, so will veggies 

Is it too late to plan Victory Gardens?

[VolFan]

Nah I think it’s right about that time…

I had some chuck eye steak on the grill Thursday - it was really good and $4.99/lb on sale.