Hunting Camp Gerontology

Something that my family and I do to pay it forward is host a hunting camp for the disabled. We as a family host this deer camp for disabled people ranging from ages anywhere from ten to fifty, some being veterans and some being young people. We do this every year on opening day of rifle season. As we are hosting this hunting camp, we are paying it forward to disabled people giving them an awesome hunting experience, home cooked meals, and a chance to make amazing memories. To extend our ability to pay it forward, we donate half of the meat from the deer they shoot to a local market for other people to benefit from, along with getting the deer mounted for our new hunting friend. My family loves this time a year because we know we are going …show more content…
It is deer taco night and the spread of food is awesome. The choices are abundant, you can make nachos, soft tacos, hard tacos and the variety of toppings are plentiful. It is great for everyone to actually eat the deer meat and enjoy what they have harvested. This is such an amazing bonding time for the kids, while sitting around talking about their hunts, they share many fun, memory making stories. Every now and again the hunters will ask my mom for other recipes that she has put together over the years. After growing up in a family full of hunters and then marrying one, she has come up with many different things. She will hand out recipes to our hunters to have for when the meat comes back to them. She has had nothing but positive feedback. The good thing about venison meat and venison jerky and so on, is that it is as natural as it gets. I have had a few people ask me how I can kill a deer. But there is so much more to it than having a trophy deer hang on your wall. Deer are overly populated and we as hunters keep that population in check. It keeps deer from going hungry due to a lack of food source, and spread of disease due to old age of the deer. I explain to them lastly that everything that we kill, we eat. So the kill isn’t just a meaningless kill, it’s like the circle of life aspect. My dad is sure to explain that to everyone who comes to hunt with