Hunting & Fishing Charity With You Kills?

[BullGear]

In my state, there are organizations that will accept venison for homeless shelters, the extreme poor and other groups. If you take your deer into a butcher, he will ask if you want to donate any of your kill.

I was wondering if any of you do this or help out poor folks on your own by giving up some of your kills?

I give when I can, usually about a 1/4 of each deer I get processed. I think it's a good thing and I'm sure those folks are very happy to have a great venison meal or two.

Do you do anything like this?

 

[siscoe308]

Not exactly the same thing....but while growing up in SD, My family would get 10+ deer tags per fall. All the excess meat would go the Members of our church (mostly indians) As a way to hunt as much as possible with zero worry of waste.

One of my favorite memories is I shot this HUGE bodied lil buck. Took him to a older lady that we all called Auntie. She told me to just bring him inside.....I was a lil confused. I asked if she meant into the shed out back.

Nope, she meant into the house. Whole headless deer carcass dropped on the kitchen table, hide & all.
She chopped him up Him up by herself right there on the uncover kitchen table! Lol

 

[diverdon]

I do not, a few cases of canned goods now and then, and cash to the Salvation army.

 

[PD DUMPER]

For the past number of years I usually take 3 elk. We give steak and burger to family, friend, and lots of people that need a little helping hand.
Butcher your self and save.

 

[Lange Carabine]

Absolutely. We have the local chapter of the Baptist Association that accepts processed venison donations.
Any extra I have goes to the members of my church and/or needy members of the community through our own missions program.

 

[FjallJager]

I think donations should stay between you and the outfit you donated to.

Saying that if you have extra food in March, don't wait until Christmas to get charitable. A soup kitchen I used to drop stuff off at told me that the non Holiday seasons really are times where they struggle to get the food they need.

 

[BCX]

I usually shoot a few extra does a year for friends. Butchering is on them. Years ago i hunted in Virginia w my old man. The farm we hunted was over ran w deer and many were tagged than donated to the hunter for hunger program.

 

[HeavyAssault]

Go ask all the processors in your area how many people don't come back for the meat.....ask the processors if they donate the meat.

 

[CStroud]

The processors around here will process your deer, and donate it to a charity called Hunters Harvest. I usually donate one deer per year.

 

[OG10]

In my case we get what we need for friends and family, then donate to Hunters for the hungry in Texas.Both hunters and processors participate and folks who need it get helped out. Win win.

 

[Totoro]

I donate year round to the local food bank with fish/birds/venison grind and it feels great!

I do my part for population control and others benefit!

Win Win!

 

[footn]

Hunter's for the Hungry and local food bank. Both allow me to help keep the herd in check.
jk

 

[diggler1833]

I routinely get asked about what I do with the hog meat I leave laying around.

So many people are interested in pork...but none are willing to drive out somewhere at 2am and butcher it.

 

[bohem]

PA has Hunter's Sharing the Harvest for food banks, soup kitchens etc.
I get asked regularly "do you have extra venison" by people who don't want anyone hunting on their property, they're anti-hunting, etc. I also get asked by people who are perfectly capable of doing it themselves, they're not poor or starving but they don't "have the time".

The people who take it upon themselves to enact barriers to gathering their own meat I don't typically share with. When we have surplus I give it to the HSH program or to closer friends and family in true need.