One of the most frequent questions hunters ask me is how to cook a certain cut of meat ... you need to add fat to the meat you grind, mix in some ground beef to the venison patties, or cook ...

Venison shanks are one of the most underrated cuts. Photograph by Krissie Mason The meat on a deer’s body can range from cut-with-a-fork-tender to too chewy to bite through. Some of these tougher cuts ...

gray or discolored meat, [and] the wrong cuts for the recipe you are looking to execute," he warns. The best venison will ...

Many processors offer bone-in cuts, but most do-it-yourselfers totally, or at least mostly, debone their meat. After many years of butchering lots of deer, here’s the process that works for me ...

To stuff that thick chunk of venison strip loin, I cut a long slit into one side of the meat, carefully working my knife to form a deep pocket inside. It was large enough for maybe ½ cup of crab ...