In February, I shot and killed my first deer and feral hog while participating in the Texas Wildlife Association’s Adult Learn to Hunt Program. Each meal that we students and our mentors ate during those three days—boar stew, venison bolognese, and venison breakfast tacos, to name a few—was made from game harvested from previous hunts, and they were all delicious. We learned how to field dress and butcher our kills, so I went home with two coolers’ worth of meat, excited to cook my haul. What I thought would be a simple endeavor taught me more about these animals than I’d bargained for.The boar had already been butchered into cuts, so my wife (who’d also participated in the program and shot her own doe) and…
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