When people ask this question the comparison to beef almost always comes up, but that’s an apples to oranges comparison for sure! Elk meat is leaner than ground beef by a wide margin with only 7 grams of fat per 3oz serving, when the same portion of ground beef will net you 13 grams of fat. Bookmark this page because we know you’ll be back! What Makes Elk Meat So Good? It’s one of the many reasons we think this is both the best elk meat you’ll ever try and the last place your ever shop online for elk meat. This makes for healthier, mineral rich soil and natural biodiversity. That means, we’re rotating our elk through different areas so that the land has time to recover between grazing. We practice sustainable land management at our elk ranch. Just fresh air, sunshine and rolling pastures where the animals forage daily. There’s no steroids or growth hormones here on our family-owned and operated ranch. (sorry for the story book).Tender Grass Fed Elk Jerky, Salami, Bratwurst and More Shipping Daily from Timber Butte Elk Ranch in Horseshoe Bend IdahoĪt Timber Butte Elk Ranch, we raise our animals on fresh pasture in the rolling hills of Horseshoe Bend Idaho. My girls will pick wild game over our beef anyday of the week!! I also know that the family in need that I donated my elk to is just as happy!!. I never understood that “feeling” dad would tell us about but this year when I cook up fresh eggs and deer breakfast sausage or deer steaks I totally have that “feeling” and its awesome!!. I also have a flock of chickens and to have fresh eggs in the fridge and home grown beef and wild game in the freezer is a pretty cool feeling. I knew what they were eating and watched them everyday. I was able to watch the critters I harvested eat right by house along side our angus bulls. Gosh, it’s great to be a hunter and know exactly where your food comes from!Įva, This looks delicious!! My dad has always been a hunter (from Alberta)and I never understood the” feeling” he would talk about when he would cook a deer or moose steak or us kids for dinner until I moved to montana 6 years ago and married a cattle rancher who is also die hard hunter.Ive never hunted in my life until last fall and I was able to harvest a bull elk and a whitetail buck. Now every time I cook the meat from that hunt, I stop and appreciate the elk that gave its life and think about the amazing week I spent in Oregon with my good friends, hiking mountains and breathing fresh air. This hunt was one of my favorite memories because nothing about it was comfortable or easy, but that made the accomplishment even more sweet and memorable. Since he is basically made of pure muscle, we loaded most of the weight on Cam’s back, which worked out perfectly for the rest of us weaklings (ha – thanks Cam!). My friend, Cam Hanes, (expert bow hunter, hardcore athlete, runs eighty bajillion miles in the mountains every day for fun?) lives a couple hours away and came to the rescue to give us a hand packing it out. By the time we had to pack the elk out to the vehicle, it was nighttime in the torrential rain, and we had to scale back down the mountain and up the other side with the elk meat on our backs (think: 1000+ pounds of weight in addition to all the gear we were already packing!). My friend Riza and I were hunting in the pouring rain for days, and I finally got a chance at my very first Roosevelt bull elk at the very top of a mountain range. The elk meat that I used for this recipe was from a hunt I went on last fall in Oregon with my friends from Leupold.
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