Don't throw them shanks out!!

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Andrew Sacco

Yeah that's a waste of a great piece of meat meant for braising low and long and slow. The collagen and sinew and even the silverskin all melt to give it a pretty silky texture. Not as tender as veal osso bucco but I've converted more than one deer hunter into shank cookers : )

I understand typically you guys in the NE can kill one to three a year , where as below the Mason Dixon line the yearly bag limit goes up significantly , the season in my particular county is two per day from 9/2 until 3/30 of which only three can be antlered . Now honestly that’s way more then I wanna deal with , usually 5-10 take care of my and a friend or two’s needs . And to be honest this late antlerless season which is going on now just doesn’t pull me like the season when bucks are legal . Anyway years back when I’d kill a good bit more than I do now there was an old black fellow that had about a dozen kids so I’d try and take him a deer or two each year anyway I pulled up once and had a carcass in the back of the truck along with the legs of three other deer with 3-5 inches of the shank still there , he asked me what I was going to do with them and I replied toss in a brush pile . He then told me to put them with the deer he thought he could do something with those as well . Think I gave that man ten deer over the years , he owned I think 150 acres of scrub timber that a club from Northern VA leased . He asked me once if I was bringing him deer trying to get permission and I told him no and asked why . He then told me about his property and that is was leased then he told me those guys had leased it x amount of years and never offered him a piece of venison . I think he truely appreciated what I brought him .