Venison is a really lean meat and benefits from liberal larding - threading strips of another animal fat through it - before cooking. These strips cook away to very little, and help to moisted the meat as they do. (My first English professor had also written a Venison cookbook for the hunters in our area of the northeast.) Oddly enough, she got most of her dressing and butchering secrets from one of our Math professors who also dabbled in home brewing and distilling (hard) cider for fun and profit. Oddly enough, although they have both passed away, her book, The Venison Cookbook, by A A Gorton is still available in paperback, and caries a 2003 publishing date. I guess her daughter must have renewed the copyright.

As an aside, generally when a motorist hits any large game like deer or moose, the car is so badly damaged, to say nothing of the occupants, that the game wardens or police at the scene usually award the recently departed animal to the owner of the vehicle, as partial recompense for the damage it caused to the vehicle. Hitting a deer usually requires the replacement of much of the front end, and hitting a moose at highway speeds can require a whole new car!

Dave