re: Processing deer yourself

Buy the book "charchuterie" off of Amazon. Great recipes. I'd reccomend a sausage stuffer as well. It's a pain in the arse putting meat in a casing with a grinder. Lem makes a ground meat packaging system that is cheap and easy to use as well. Small locations grocery stores that make their own sausage usually have casings. There is a small store near me that gives me all their pork fat trimmings for free if I call and ask them to hold them for me. I buy the butcher a 6 pack when I pick them up. I have a madterbuilt electric smoker and Amazin pellet tray to smoke the sausage. I also use the livers to make boudin.

Now that I have the process down from using the charchuterie book recipes I'm going to start making my own.