re: Deer Processing

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That sounds insanely high. The old man that processes our deer charges $65. We just drop the deer off. We don't have to gut it or anything. He doesn't do all that fancy sausage and what not though. With our last deer, we just got a couple pounds of sausage(not link sausage), the backstraps whole, tenderized deer steaks, and the rest ground hamburger meat.

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It sounds insanely high because it is an insane amount of deer sausage!!! A lot of deer don't weigh 140 punds on the hoof, much less 140 pounds of meat. This guy had to have dropped off several deer and ordered strictly link sausage, which takes much more labor to process than tenderizing and wrapping steaks, roasts, backstrap, and such. Go anywhere you want to with 140 pounds of meat and you will pay out your arse for it to be processed.

Think of it this way, lean hamburger meat in a grocery store is over $2 a pound these days. This cat got off good only paying $2.42/ pound for link sausage.