So for two years I don’t get a deer and then i am surroudned by them.<\/p>\n
On the way to the blogmet, I’m maybe ten, fifteen cars behind a truck, and i see a line of deer run out of the treeline. Several cross, most are turned, but the truck taps one large doe.<\/p>\n
it endovers in air and I pull to the side, for a couple reasons, I want to make sure the poor bastard is dead, and because I’m always.. curious. <\/p>\n
I am looking at the deer and a cop pulls up, he’s seen me stopped with my flashers and thinks i’m in trouble.
\n“No, just making sure this deer is dead. It is.”
\n“fresh?”<\/p>\n
“yeah. I just saw a truck catch it. Didn’t look like the driver even noticed. I always hate to see the meat get wasted, but this one is pretty buggered up”
\nit was, the legs were broken and the head beat up pretty bad. <\/p>\n
The cop asks “is there anything you can do with him? you want a permit to posess? ”
\n“no, I don’t have a cooler and I won’t be going home for a while. Besides, there’s enough damage that the backstraps are about all that’s left.”
\n“Wish I knew how to get them out, I love deer. My brotherinlaw gives me some sometimes. I don’t hunt”<\/p>\n
“I can get them out if you want them. Do you have a cooler?”<\/p>\n
he did, and I had the white hunter and some rubber gloves in the truck, so I filleted out the backstraps. When I had them I cut off a little piece and ate it.
\n“yuck, that looks nasty”
\n“Don’t knock it” I said”unless you try it”
\n“is it safe?”
\n“Well, I think deer tend to be a lot safer and cleaner than most farm animals, and this meat isn’t in a body cavity where it could be contaminated by bacteria, so I think it’s safe, but by no means follow my advice, I’ve had intestinal parasites before”
\nIn the end I ate about a three by three chunk of backstrap, and he even sampled a bit “Damn, that’s better than the best rare steak I’ve ever had” and he took the rest home in his cooler. <\/p>\n
So that’s how I ended up at the Broad Ripple brewpub smelling of deer blood and ran to the bathroom so I could check to make sure I didn’t have any in my beard, which I did, so I’m glad I got that wiped off first. <\/p>\n
by the way, if you ever have a chance to go there, eschew the hot air hand drier, it doesn’t work so well. Prying the lid off with my knife, i discovered that the hot air is actually generated by seventeen small butterflies eating refried beans. Go right for the gas-station-paper towel thingy, you’ll thank me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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