Rich Food for Poor People: Making Venison-Rabbit Boudin

By Tyler Kee

Nearly a month into hunting season and I’ve been out twice. The results have been a mixed bag. One wounded Axis, never to be recovered, a downed whitetail buck, and one rabbit. None of which were shot by me. As it seems to happen each year, the killing has been outsourced to others. I like taking people hunting for the first time, and as I’ve discussed here before, I haven’t come to enjoy the killing part. Truth be told, I’ve had about a dozen fantastic shooting opportunities in the last few years that I haven’t taken because I was much more content to sit and watch the show. My friends would hear me say, “Oh I didn’t feel like doing all that work for a tiny doe.” The reality is that I quite enjoy the work that most hunters loathe . . .

The buck, shot by my friend Richard, went to the local processor to be turned into dried sausage. My mother keeps a freezer full of the stuff and hands it out throughout the year at various social gatherings and shindigs. As I do my hunting on my parents’ land, I defer to their requests. First deer of …Read the Rest

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