As much as we love the look of a shoulder mount or deer skull on the wall—the real trophy of a successful deer hunt is the wild game we bring home. And if you were to poll 1,000 whitetail deer hunters ...

I ate a lot of venison when I was a kid. Any recipe that could be made with beef, my mother made with deer meat — hamburgers, spaghetti sauce, pot roast, and more. However, she didn’t ever get too ...

First, prepare the backstrap fillet. It's an extremely tender tubelike piece of meat about 12 inches long and 2 to 3 inches in diameter. And because of its shape, it can be cut around in the perimeter ...

This pan-seared venison backstrap recipe is one of my favorite ways to cook backstrap. The meat is perfectly seared and melt-in-your-mouth tender. It's easy, delicious, and pretty much foolproof. If ...

Some families are ditching traditional turkeys on Thanksgiving in favor of wild game meats. Whole smoked alligator and stuffed venison backstraps are among the unique alternatives. The owner of a game ...

When it comes to hunters’s favorite cut of venison, backstraps get a lot of the attention—and rightly so; they are delicious. But it’s hard to beat a venison tenderloin. For many hunters, the ...