this is my burger recipe I use with wild meat, 5 LBS total weight
mix with pork to get some fat content, however much you want.
small onion finely chopped
1 - Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp white pepper
1.5Tbsp salt
10-15 garlic cloves finely chopped
5 Tbsp liquid smoke
I make big batches and throw all the onions and garlic into a food processor and it almost liquifies them, mixes very well with the spics and meat. pretty simple basic recipe.
We use it for everything - spaghetti, chili, tacos, nachos, etc. Eat that more than any other meat and usually do one or two deer per year in all burger. Healthy IMO. Been doing a lot of skillets lately with cheese, green chilis, tomatoes, and rotel. Could add just about anything. Sausage is always good, been using Con Yager seasoning for years. Good stuff.
My goto method for any burger includes egg and breadcrumbs, as mallard said. Disagree that deer burgers are disgusting cause family and I love em.
Approx 1 egg and 1/4 cup breadcrumbs per 1 pound of ground deer meat. Add whatever seasoning you like to this mix as well. As for the deer meat, I usually cut 10-20% pork fat into the grind for my plain ground meat as deer is so lean. If you arent adding fat to your ground meat, it will be a lot more difficult to hold together for a burger.