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re: When getting your deer processed, how do you know if you're getting the same meat back?
Posted on 11/27/23 at 9:56 am to AwgustaDawg
Posted on 11/27/23 at 9:56 am to AwgustaDawg
quote:Hsve you been around a lot of deer camps? Makes a huge difference. How the kill is handled- even the conditions in which it was shot and retrieved- makes all the difference.
I get wanting whats mine but if I don't know what difference does it make?
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Posted on 11/27/23 at 9:58 am to Quatrepot
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sve you been around a lot of deer camps? Makes a huge difference. How the kill is handled- even the conditions in which it was shot and retrieved- makes all the difference.
If you are taking the deer to someone else to process does it though? I get what you are saying if someone is processing it themselves but if you are field dressing it and taking it to someone else do you really care how it is handled or how it was killed? Yes, if you are serious and do it yourself you have a valid point but it would not matter then because you do it yourself...
Posted on 11/27/23 at 10:13 am to SwampyWaters
You don't, that's why I invested in processing equipment and do it myself.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 10:16 am to SwampyWaters
I do my own. Grinding your own meat is easy and a LOT cheaper. Cut your roasts out, wrap and freeze. Backstraps and loins do the same. If you keep the neck just cut to size, wrap and freeze.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 10:43 am to AwgustaDawg
quote:I guess you’re right cause I never brought one to be processed and we do our own. I’m not a big deer hunter but in a club. I mainly hunt squirrels and hogs
Yes, if you are serious and do it yourself you have a valid point but it would not matter then because you do it yourself...
This post was edited on 11/27/23 at 10:44 am
Posted on 11/27/23 at 10:58 am to AwgustaDawg
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If you are taking the deer to someone else to process does it though?
absolutely. The way the meat is cared for (or not) between the shot and the processor can have a massive impact on taste/quality, especially for non seasoned/sausage type items.
Even if the processor does everything the same for both animals, a fat doe shot in the neck, cleaned immediately and correctly, with the meat quickly cooled in a dry environment will not eat the same as a gut shot rutting buck that had the bladder nicked while cleaning and then sat in a cooler full of cold water for a week. The best processor in the world can't un-frick meat that was poorly handled before it arrived.
This post was edited on 11/27/23 at 11:03 am
Posted on 11/27/23 at 11:20 am to ccard257
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If you are taking the deer to someone else to process does it though?
absolutely. The way the meat is cared for (or not) between the shot and the processor can have a massive impact on taste/quality, especially for non seasoned/sausage type items.
Even if the processor does everything the same for both animals, a fat doe shot in the neck, cleaned immediately and correctly, with the meat quickly cooled in a dry environment will not eat the same as a gut shot rutting buck that had the bladder nicked while cleaning and then sat in a cooler full of cold water for a week. The best processor in the world can't un-frick meat that was poorly handled before it arrived.
My point was that if you are paying someone to do it for you chances are pretty good you don't care what you get back...if you care enough to do it yourself you obviously do but I would posit most deer hunters could not tell you why their venison is inedible only that it is, and most of those probably pay someone else to process their deer instead of doing it themselves. If it makes a difference the only way to be certain is to do it yourself.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 11:43 am to AwgustaDawg
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My point was that if you are paying someone to do it for you chances are pretty good you don't care what you get back
I don't think thats true at all. Its just a convenience thing for most people.
Before CWD I would just take one to be processed. Didn't have a good place to do it myself and didn't mind spending the money because I had a good processor around. Since I moved and CWD is more widespread the calculus has changed.
Also a lot of hunters I know take it to a processor because they want it to taste better... they think they will mess things up somehow.
This post was edited on 11/27/23 at 11:44 am
Posted on 11/27/23 at 11:47 am to biglego
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When getting your deer processed, how do you know if you're getting the same meat back?
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Check out Dwights south of Jxn on highway 18. His sausage is the closest to edible of any I've tried.
That’s high praise
If you regularly eat Country Pleasin's Sausage you'd understand. The worst CP is 10000000x better than the best deer sausage. I've eaten deer sausage from all over the state, it's all terrible compared to CP.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 11:51 am to SwampyWaters
I pick up a few roadkill deer on I59 every year and drop it off at processor knowing I won't get the same deer back in my jalapeno cheese sausage. Saves me a pile of $$$ not having to join a hunting club.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:29 pm to greenbean
CP tastes like any other sausage with a high fat content; good. Lil butcher shoppe is right beside them in the case and is just as good if not better. Sausage ain’t rocket surgery, processors just don’t add that much fat because that’s money out of their pocket.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:56 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
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CP tastes like any other sausage with a high fat content; good. Lil butcher shoppe is right beside them in the case and is just as good if not better. Sausage ain’t rocket surgery, processors just don’t add that much fat because that’s money out of their pocket.
No doubt about them skimping on the fat.
Wilson's in Crystal Springs is supposed to have good sausge, but I haven't tried it yet.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 4:39 pm to redneck
Too funny and I can relate to your story. I was dating a girl way back in college and on my way to her house one night I hit a deer and it destroyed the front of my vehicle. I was able to drive to the girl's house and she said she thought it was state law that I was responsible for removing the dead deer. I immediately called the sheriff's department and asked the deputy and he just started laughing. He confirmed I was responsible, but stated I was in the country and not to worry about the deer because he could just about guarantee that deer had already been picked up, skinned and was halfway on the grill!
Posted on 11/27/23 at 5:43 pm to redneck
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I pick up a few roadkill deer on I59 every year and drop it off at processor knowing I won't get the same deer back
I guess when you look at it that way, sometimes it’s good to not get your own deer back
This post was edited on 11/28/23 at 12:42 pm
Posted on 11/28/23 at 7:46 am to SwampyWaters
honestly man, there really is no way to tell. this is the main reason why i butcher my own
Posted on 11/28/23 at 8:23 am to SwampyWaters
I only send out for smoked sausage now. My brisket and deer meat ground is our favorite ground meat, use it for everything. Used to just use my ground for tacos, chili and such. Now use it fir burgers, hamburger steak and meatloafs.
Posted on 11/28/23 at 8:52 am to ImaObserver
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Bearded Butchers
Man you can go down the rabbit hole with them. Thanks for posting.
Posted on 11/28/23 at 9:48 am to RefineryRich
Except crematories are governed by state laws.
Posted on 11/28/23 at 10:45 am to SwampyWaters
My favorite is when you drop off 40lbs of deer meat and come back and they have about 200 lbs of sausage ready for you.
Posted on 11/28/23 at 10:59 am to NASA_ISS_Tiger
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Except crematories are governed by state laws.
Didnt keep one in Georgia from getting paid to cremate nearly 400 people, stacking their bodies in storage sheds and burying them in shallow graves and giving the families a little Sacrete and a cheap urn.....
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