When I was growing up, venison was a regular staple on the family dinner table. My father filled the freezer every deer season, and then my mother made her way through it the rest of the year, feeding ...

The obvious reward for a double-lung shot: a quickly downed deer. But there is an added bonus when a hunter avoids obliterating the heart. Many hunters consider venison heart a delicacy when prepared ...

GAME FOR COOKING — Most hunters relish bringing back their game for the family table. In the following story, a Montana hunter, mother, cook and comptetitive shooter tells about her adventure with ...

You always remember where you were when you bit into your first deer heart. And if you never have, maybe you remember where you were the first time you got mad at someone for biting one. A man in New ...

Photos of an 8-year-old New Zealand girl with her first kill are getting a lot of backlash on social media. That’s because they show the young girl taking a bite out of the deer’s “warm quivering” ...

While butchering two whitetail deer with my buddy Cosmo Genova, I mentioned that I wished I liked the taste of organ meats and offal. Liver, heart, tongue, and even kidneys and testicles are ...

Many deer hunters know to save the heart of the deer they harvest this season. The heart of a wild, free-ranging deer is “muscle meat” and is as good as a piece of tenderloin. Master chefs and outdoor ...

Editor’s Note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series on first deer hunts. We partnered with the National Deer Association’s Field to Fork program to mentor two of our gear editors last fall. Read Part 2 ...

One of four mysterious organ-like findings at the Great Lakes Water Authority wastewater plant made this month has been identified by the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s office as a deer heart. As MT ...

Nate Schmidt stood in a pair of leather lederhosen, the overall straps snug on his shoulders, an alpine wool fedora atop his head and a frothy mug of beer in his hand. Amongst the chaos of Vienna ...