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What's Going On?Lanier Quality Deer Management Branch Banquet Supports Local Hunters for the Hungry Program11/19/2007By: Kent Kammermeyer Certified Wildlife Biologist Mark your calendar. QDMA members can donate deer during the entire bow and gun seasons beginning on September 8 and running straight through January 1. All other hunters (that are not QDMA members), mark Thanksgiving week on your calendar right now! If your freezer is full and you harvest extra deer that you can field dress and share with others, we can’t think of anything that fits together better than Quality Deer Management (QDM) and a Hunters for the Hungry (HFH) program. Called “killing two deer with one stone”, it is fulfilling the need to harvest does (or bucks) for proper deer herd management combined with a fine humanitarian way of utilizing the extra high quality venison that is low fat, high protein, low cholesterol and chemical free. QDMA started our local program last fall but actually made our first donation of frozen ground venison in December 2005, delivering 500 lbs of venison purchased from Hicks Deer Cooler in Crawford to Good News at Noon. Better yet, a home spun HFH program was not difficult, thanks to one of our corporate sponsors Southern Heritage Land Co. (SHLC). When we announced our plans at the last banquet, Charlie Lathem and Stan Bennett, brokers at SHLC, approached us shortly afterward and said they had been considering doing an HFH program for years but just could not get it going. They were excited to have the opportunity to partner with our branch and its local officers Rick Walters, Sean Ryan, Ken Burnette and me. SHLC wrote us a $1,000 check (for deer processing fees) to kick off the program and challenged all 16 other corporate sponsors from our banquet to match their donation or contribute $500 or $100 or whatever they could. Then they went out and bought a brand new chest freezer to help temporarily store meat. Meanwhile, we worked out a deal (including written contract) with a local deer processor who has a great reputation, Patrick Hroma (PK’s Deer Cooler at 4741 Buckhorn Circle off of Mount Vernon Rd. and Buckhorn Rd. (call 678-936-3377 for directions) to process field dressed deer in to ground venison in one pound packs and process quartered deer skinned and brought in a cooler at a reduced price. He even agreed to do individual hindquarters donated to HFH at his cooler. Here is another great deal that Patrick will help us with. As hunters drop by to pick up their frozen packaged venison, he places a flyer with QDMA and SHLC logos on top of the meat saying “Please consider donating one or two packs of your ground venison to our Hunters for the Hungry program. You can do it right now!” Ground rules are simple: Please no nasty carcasses! Please donate deer of a quality that you would feed to your own family. Very small deer provide less meat but cost just as much to butcher. If you are not donating a whole deer, consider donating a hindquarter. Properly field dress all deer and deliver them promptly to the butcher shop. Quartered on ice in a cooler is even better (saves on processing fee!). During warm weather, refrigerate or place carcass on ice. Badly shot-up and road-killed deer will be refused. QDMA established a separate checking account for QDMA Lanier HFH and added $1,000 of our banquet revenues to the SHLC donation. Last years banquet proceeds and SHLC funds paid for processing of 47 deer totaling 1,861 pounds of ground venison which was donated to six worthy local charities. Our charities included Good News at Noon, Three Dimensional Life Boys Home, Gainesville City Baptist Mission, RAD Ministries, Chattahoochee Baptist Mission and Set Free Ministries. If you have a favorite charity in need of high quality ground venison, let us know by calling me at (706) 865-7636 and leaving a message on the answering machine complete with charity name and phone number. Meanwhile have a great deer season and plan to share your harvest with some less fortunate local folks. It’s easy and it works! Back to news |
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