Tribute to the kill

[Jerry Jeffer]

I thank The Lord for His bounty and blessing and leave a steamy gut pile for the other animals to eat.

[Biggie Hoffman]

I find myself slowing down too. I used to build the fire 1st and then cut out the backstraps. Now, I just cut the backstraps out, slower cause I used to leave some meat behind, and THEN I build the cook fire.....

[Mike Mecredy]

I usually leave what I won't eat at the kill site for the coyotes and such.

[b.glass]

I was out looking for squirrels this afternoon and walked past the bones of a doe for the 50th time since last fall. I started thinking about this thread and went back and grabbed a leg bone to take to the rodents to chew on. And paid respect to the doe. Some of us who are good at finding sheds, (not me!), should probably take more of the bones out to the woods.
I will be better prepared to give better respect to that doe the next time I pass her. Everytime I do, I look at her and think about her. In a way that is a show of respect. I wonder sometimes if she was poached, her carcass left by an abandoned house.

[koger]

I give thanks to God for each and every deer I or my wife and friends take each year, and share some meat with people in need, there are some in any community if we look very hard. I also process a deer or to that people give me and give to some older folks on fixed income that really appreciate it.