My goal for this passion project was to shoot a whitetail buck, I went out but saw nothing big enough for my first deer. I was unsuccessful but there is always another hunting season the next year, I will try extra hard next hunting season. Thank you for following my blog, and sorry I did not succeed. I did have lots of fun and found out how much of a passion I have for hunting and how beautiful and complex whitetail deer and their lifestyles are.

Resources

I didn't really use a lot of resources for my project because I had my mentor who already knew a lot about hunting. I did use the internet, for researching mule deer and whitetail deer differences, and recipes.
allrecipes.com/Recipe/Slow-Cooker-Venison-Sloppy-Joes/Detail.aspx?evt19=1
http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Slow-Cooker-Venison/Detail.aspx?evt19=1
windmill12.com/2012/07/18/the-difference-between-mule-and-whitetail-deer/
www.muledeer.org/hunting/mule-deer-facts

This 2013 hunting season was not successful and I am disappointed with myself, but I can't control what the deer do and when they come out. This past Manitoba winter was a hard and long winter making it hard for the deer to survive especially the babies who are so small. I am afraid this 2014 winter will also be hard for the deer to survive because it is extremely cold. Im really looking forward to the 2014 hunting season, maybe ill be that big 5 by 5 I was hoping for.

Mentor

I havent had the chance to talk about my mentor for this project. My mentor is my dad, because he is my hunting partner, and he's been hunting a lot longer than i have so he knows a lot more then i do. Its really nice going hunting with my dad because its sort of like bonding for me and him, you can just sit and talk for hours and see amazing things in the forest that you obviously cant see in the city. He loves hunting like me. I get almost everything i know from my dad about hunting. When you go out to a place that can be dangerous you have to trust your hunting partner with your life because if you get hurt they're the only person that can help you out there. You always have to make sure you talk about safety with your partner and get emergency numbers so you know what to call if there was something that went wrong. Always know the address of where you are. I have taken some training of first aid and we know what to do if we get stuck in the forest for some reason. We carry a back pack filled with matches, fishing line, granola bars, juice boxes, a knife, a compass, possibly a pair of tweezers, also a small first aid kit, extra ammunition, and you could also put some dryer lint in a baggie which is an excellent fire starter. We don't carry this but you could also carry a small tarp, a hand gun, some extra baggies, plastic gloves. You always want to think of the wort cause you can never know what will happen.
  My dad and I always have things planned out if someone got hurt. Hunting is one of my favourite things to do, why not be safe while doing it.

Im going to do one more recipe because I have time for it, this recipe is a more known recipe, its pretty common. I have tried this one before its called Slow Cooked Venison its really easy and super good. All you need is:

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1/2 onion, diced
• 2 teaspoon minced garlic
• 1 pound boneless venison roast 
• 1/2 cup ketchup
• 1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
• 1/4 cup soy sauce 
• 1/4 cup chili-garlic sauce
• 1/4 teaspoon liquid smoke
• 1/3 cup water
• 2 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon pepper

1. Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Stir in onion and cook until softened, about 3 minutes.Stir in garlic and cook 2 more minutes until softened.
2. Place venison roast into a slow cooker, and sprinkle with onion mixture. Stir together ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, chili-garlic sauce, water, salt, and pepper. Pour over the venison.
3. Cover and cook on low until tender and no longer pink,4 to 5 hours.

As you can see this isnt' a very hard recipe and its good. I got this specific recipe from http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Slow-Cooked-Venison/Detail.aspx?evt19=1 but you can switch it up if you like, maybe put some carrots and celery in it or potatoes that makes it really good.

I found a few really good recipes for venison (deer meat) a lot of them i have tried myself they're all really good!

The first one is Slow Cooker Venison Sloppy Joes. The ingredients are 

• 1/4 pound bacon                                  
• 2 pounds venison stew meat
• 1 large yellow onion, chopped
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup wine vinegar
• 1 tablespoon ground cumin
• 1 teaspoon chili powder 
• 2 tablespoon minced garlic
• 1 tablespoon prepared Dijon-styled mustard 
• 1 cup ketchup
• salt and pepper to taste 

The directions are in the link below

I found this recipe at this website if you need anymore help refer to this 


I will try to post more recipes. Sadly this season we didn't get anything so we can't make any of this  but next season will hopefully be better.

Today is December 9, 2013 hunting season ended on November 24 and as you can probably tell we didn't get anything this year once again, my dad and I saw a few bucks one being a decent four by four but I really wanted a bigger deer for my first one, go big or go home is what we said. Lately the seasons have been shortened due to low numbers of deer in the Manitoba province. For the past 2 or 3 years the deer have been struggling to get through our cold winters. Deer have a very dense fur coat in the winter and they also develop an extra layer of fat, they also find heat by huddling together and laying down with their legs under them to help keep their legs warm, but that can't always help them.
   An interesting fact about the white-tailed deer is they can run up to 58 kilometres an hour (about 36 miles per hour), also deer can make a vertical leap of over two and a half metres and a horizontal jump of nine metres. And the scientific name for the White-tailed deer is Odocoileus virginianus.
   I am planning on putting up recipes on how to cook deer meat even though we didn't get anything,  I still want to help others have great deer meat.