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re: Deer processing. How many here process their own and to what level?

Posted on 10/6/15 at 4:54 pm to
Posted by MotorBoater
Hammond
Member since Sep 2010
1677 posts
Posted on 10/6/15 at 4:54 pm to
quote:

It's easy cheaper and I know it is done cleanly and right. I get to drink beer and spend time with my dad and friends.


Same here, I bought all the equipment last year. Plus I only care to shoot a couple deer a year so we aren't talking but a few afternoons of work.
Posted by fishfighter
RIP
Member since Apr 2008
40026 posts
Posted on 10/6/15 at 6:41 pm to
Been processing them my whole life. Just never tried to make summer sausage. Maybe I will give it a try.
Posted by Yellerhammer5
Member since Oct 2012
10850 posts
Posted on 10/6/15 at 6:50 pm to
B. My processors charge less if gutted. I dot have the tools or location to do anything beyond field dressing and I'd rather spend my time doing something else.
Posted by rattlebucket
SELA
Member since Feb 2009
11424 posts
Posted on 10/6/15 at 6:53 pm to
Somewhere between C and D
Posted by jgthunt
Walker
Member since Feb 2010
2460 posts
Posted on 10/6/15 at 7:10 pm to
Only thing I don't do is make my sausage/boudin. I do make my own summer sausage sometimes.
Posted by offshoretrash
Farmerville, La
Member since Aug 2008
10170 posts
Posted on 10/6/15 at 8:16 pm to
The most I do is skin and take to the processor. If it is warm weather, late at night when I get the deer out of the woods or just too busy I will take it whole and have the processor do everything. It's not that much more to have one skinned and gutted.

I will soon be able to do this myself but now I am not set up for it.
Posted by Ppro
natchez
Member since Dec 2013
415 posts
Posted on 10/7/15 at 9:53 am to
e. I got cabela's 1 & 1/2 hp with a 44lb mixer and meat tenderizer/cuber attachment. processed 14 deer last year Lots of work but it adds to my hunting experience. Tenderized steaks are the shite. That grinder will make it happen!
Posted by Huntinguy
Member since Mar 2011
1752 posts
Posted on 10/7/15 at 10:17 am to
Either D or E depending on how much time I have and how many deer I'm going to kill. Used to have a buddy that would process them on halves and I'd skin and quarter them at his place, he'd process and let me know when the meat was ready and he was ready for another.
Posted by MWP
Kingwood, TX via Monroe, LA
Member since Jul 2013
10404 posts
Posted on 10/7/15 at 10:23 am to
A if I am cramped for time and need to take care of other shite. Mostly done when not at a camp. C for all other times.
Posted by LSUFootballFANATIC
Way Up North
Member since Feb 2008
1026 posts
Posted on 10/7/15 at 10:52 am to
Almost always E.

However, the last couple of years I have been doing D, and then taking some to the local meat plant to have some sausage and snack sticks made.
Posted by bushwacker
youngsville
Member since Feb 2010
3587 posts
Posted on 10/7/15 at 11:23 am to
between D and E

I always quarter and debone my meat. I will grind it myself, vacuum seal the roasts,or send the deboned meat to have sausage made.
Posted by dnm3305
Member since Feb 2009
13553 posts
Posted on 10/7/15 at 12:55 pm to
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Similar to this, but we don't field dress. Just skin, take quarters and backstraps to cooler and dump carcass. Much less of a mess keeping the guts in the cavity.
Posted by Langston
Member since Nov 2010
7685 posts
Posted on 10/7/15 at 1:07 pm to
quote:

Similar to this, but we don't field dress. Just skin, take quarters and backstraps to cooler and dump carcass. Much less of a mess keeping the guts in the cavity.

Interesting, never heard of this.
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