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<blockquote data-quote="Rolando" data-source="post: 763722" data-attributes="member: 2367"><p>Depends on how you do it and how much your time is worth. </p><p></p><p>If you buy scent locking socks, trail cams, feed plots, camo etc... It can get expensive. </p><p></p><p>If you go out in your jeans and sit under a tree downwind from a deer, shoot it, then process it yourself. Even after license you can do well. </p><p>What is good venison worth per pound? </p><p>$7.00? ??</p><p></p><p>How about venison jerky? $30/lb? more??</p><p></p><p>You can't buy jerky like I make it and like it. Not at any price. </p><p></p><p>I shot a deer in my backyard one year. Didn't decide to hunt until a few days before. Didn't do anything fancy to prepare. Got lucky and saw a little buck and took him. I had called my dad and mentioned I was going to hunt and was looking for a processor and he encouraged me to do it myself. When he was growing up he ate more venison than beef and they never used a processor, "you kidding me?". </p><p></p><p>To answer to OP' s original question, yes it can be done but when you turn it into a hobby you can find lots of things to spend money on. I try to keep the costs minimal and use iron sights to keep it more in the family tradition of more of a food gathering type of hunt rather than a trophy hunting hobby. </p><p></p><p>That being said, I'll probably get a scoped deer rifle and might buy a trail cam this year. Toys are fun to have!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rolando, post: 763722, member: 2367"] Depends on how you do it and how much your time is worth. If you buy scent locking socks, trail cams, feed plots, camo etc... It can get expensive. If you go out in your jeans and sit under a tree downwind from a deer, shoot it, then process it yourself. Even after license you can do well. What is good venison worth per pound? $7.00? ?? How about venison jerky? $30/lb? more?? You can't buy jerky like I make it and like it. Not at any price. I shot a deer in my backyard one year. Didn't decide to hunt until a few days before. Didn't do anything fancy to prepare. Got lucky and saw a little buck and took him. I had called my dad and mentioned I was going to hunt and was looking for a processor and he encouraged me to do it myself. When he was growing up he ate more venison than beef and they never used a processor, "you kidding me?". To answer to OP' s original question, yes it can be done but when you turn it into a hobby you can find lots of things to spend money on. I try to keep the costs minimal and use iron sights to keep it more in the family tradition of more of a food gathering type of hunt rather than a trophy hunting hobby. That being said, I'll probably get a scoped deer rifle and might buy a trail cam this year. Toys are fun to have!! [/QUOTE]
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