Yum Yum.You can't be at it with some peach iced tea.

Your eating my favorite k-9 bait

Was one of my father's favorite.Dang I miss him.

This is the 8th season without my Dad
It doesn't seem to get any easier, I used his favorite gun and wore his hunting hat today for our opener
I think the opener is harder to deal with that the holidays without him here

Been wearing my father's boots all year.Was wearing them when I shot my big buck after saying a little prayer for my father to help me.

Liver and onions , one of my favorites , deer liver tastes just like beef liver to me.
At least Ohio, WV deer liver does.

Love beef and elk liver. Can't handle the smell of deer liver. Was cutting up todays liver for bait and told my wife I can't believe people eat this. She agreed. I will fist fight for the heart though. Like deer heart way more than beef.

I'll pass.

Not for me but had no problem giving away

Ever see Flukes in Deer Liver

I had liver once a couple years ago and for two days I gagged . Can’t do it

Nope

Yep, wouldn't pass inspection on the kill line. there is a reason inspectors rail those carcasses out.

Have eaten over 400 deer livers in my lifetime from deer I have killed and never seen them.

Seems like a waste of good weasel bait

My favorite part of the deer. If a buck would hand over his heart and liver, I’d let them walk.

Plenty of liver and onions on elk hunts out west,.wont touch now,.liver is more such now a holding tank.

I have seen them in elk. I ate liver years ago mostly had to as as a kid.I personally won’t eat something like that anymore as the liver is the filter for all the toxins in the body.oh but wait liver is good for you ….lol

Delicious. I saute them in a little homemade concord wine till medium rare. Never seen a fluke in the few hundred I've cut up and eaten

Yup, deer on the Tug Hill plateau all have them. It comes from eating aquatic plants and ingesting a snail that lives on these plants.
Doesn’t seem to affect the deer health.

x2

....lol

I like to make jerky and share it with the dogs.
It smells so strong while dehydrating it I have to do it in the shop.
It makes a mes of the dehydrator.

The guts are supposed to stay in the woods!

They do

Hahaha

Love some liver and onions. Eat it alone most of the time. Not many around me like it. But thats OK.

Well cooked liver with flukes & eggs should pose no health concerns. Eating raw and fresh may allow transfer of the pest from an infected liver.

Nowadays internal organ meats from wildlife can be high in heavy metals in some areas.
An occasional meal in those areas is probably OK for a grown man,but wouldnt want to make it a steady part of the diet.
Moose calf liver is one of my favorite.

For me, it's the heart that's a delicacy, and the first thing eaten. Don't care for liver.

Liver, bacon and onions... yummy!

Funny ...... many of the folks that frown on eating fresh, wild organ meat usually LOVE processed hot dogs, chicken nuggets and turkey burgers

Got to die from something.My age I'm past worrying

Yep for sure

I have only seen that a couple times,,and those livers stayed in the woods.

Fry those up like mushrooms.

Anyone else save the tongue? I'm not much for liver but always save the heart and tongue.

Never tried a deer tongue but I like cow tongue.I like liver,,but I LOVE hearts.Deer hearts,,,chicken hearts,,most all of em.

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I agree. Now if deer just had a gizzard instead of a liver they would be the perfect critter.

That is why you Add onions and it purifies it!

Any toxins that deer has ever ingested will be in the liver.

Not sure that's true, though you hear that all the time, and..I'm not a liverologist so maybe?
But I think any toxins and impurities get processed by the liver, removed from the blood stream and then eliminated as a waste product...the liver itself should be just....liver

Yep

The liver in your picture should not be eaten. The pits and tunnels you see in the cut pieces of raw liver are from liver flukes.

Those are the common ducts,etc. that are found in all livers

I’ve never seen a cross-cut liver not having those features.

I agree with this ^.
Also, liver fluke pose no threat or danger to humans, especially when cooked.
Not a problem. Know it or not ..... odds are, you've eaten worse.

Yea Take out when they hork on your big mac.

I looked into this a little and it appears you are right. The liver can be damaged by toxins but are not stored there.
I still ain't eating it.

lol

No deer liver for this old boy. I used to enjoy calves liver, don't ebven where you can get it. Give me some back straps !

Yuk! I learned to hate liver when I was in the army. Seems they had it several times a week.

We ate beef liver once a week as a kid, cause it was cheap, never liked it, didn't help that mom couldn't cook the stuff, lol
Deer liver is waaay better, only thing better is pork liver, just got to cook it right....