Do you process your own deer or take it to a processor/butcher?
08-27-2008, 02:59 PM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Lubbock, Texas
Posts: 1,401
RE: Do you process your own deer or take it to a processor/butcher?
I grew up in a poor family where we truly did hunt for the meat. We hunted public land and tried to maximize the harvest on every hunting trip. We did not pass on very many animals. We butchered our own deer and rarely ate beef and then only hamburger. I ate my first beef steak when I was 18 yeas old.
I'm not poor any longer, and my hunting strategy has changed dramatically, but I still butcher all my own wild game, partly for the satisfaction of a job well done, and partly so I'm 100% guaranteed that the deer that I shot is the deer that I end up eating.
I'm not poor any longer, and my hunting strategy has changed dramatically, but I still butcher all my own wild game, partly for the satisfaction of a job well done, and partly so I'm 100% guaranteed that the deer that I shot is the deer that I end up eating.
08-27-2008, 03:02 PM
#5
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 92
RE: Do you process your own deer or take it to a processor/butcher?
I do my own,even processed the bear got this spring,and if everything goes right I'll be processing an elk around the end of Oct.
Of course it maybe more work than I'd like but I think I'd manage,now what do with that meat???
Of course it maybe more work than I'd like but I think I'd manage,now what do with that meat???
08-27-2008, 03:08 PM
#6
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: tampa fl USA
Posts: 184
RE: Do you process your own deer or take it to a processor/butcher?
ORIGINAL: npaden
and partly so I'm 100% guaranteed that the deer that I shot is the deer that I end up eating.
and partly so I'm 100% guaranteed that the deer that I shot is the deer that I end up eating.
08-27-2008, 03:17 PM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Southeast PA
Posts: 1,490
RE: Do you process your own deer or take it to a processor/butcher?
Agreed, we do all our deer. It's all part of the fun to spend time with my family. I always say if it wouldn't be for deer season I would have lost touch with many of my cousins and uncles. But we always catch uo in the fall!
08-27-2008, 03:57 PM
#9
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blissfield MI USA
Posts: 5,293
RE: Do you process your own deer or take it to a processor/butcher?
I take it somewhere, it's not feasible to do it myself because of where I live. I live in a trailer park and somehow I don't think it would go over well if I had a deer hanging in my carport.
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08-27-2008, 04:24 PM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: South central Nebraska
Posts: 2,317
RE: Do you process your own deer or take it to a processor/butcher?
Me and my buddies have de-boneing parties,but I always go to a meat packer for the processing. Cheaper after we de-bone itand they know what they are doing. Plus by the time I'd add all the equipment it wouldn't be worth it for me. Just don't know 100% positive if I get my deer back.