deer processing, butcher or do it your self ?

[Guest buckseeker]

I've heard that D.I.Y is the only way to go ,because butcher shops pose the chance that you may not get your deer back.Is that true? If it is i"ll try it myself this year.

[longislandhunter]

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When I first started deer hunting I used to take my deer to a local butcher, and he did a pretty good job for a fairly cheap price. However I wanted to learn how to butcher it myself so I wrote to the NY State Environmental Conservation Dept. and for $1.00 they sent me a butchering manual complete with step by step pictures. Best dollar I ever spent ! The first thing that amazed me was how much more meat I wound up getting off my deer. The second thing that amazed me was how easy it was do. The other advantage was that there were more than a few times where I harvested a deer and the weather was much to warm to let it hang. Knowing how to butcher it permitted me to process the deer right away, get it in the freezer, and get back to hunting. Definately do it yourself, you won't be sorry. Good hunting.

[tedicast]

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We have done all our own deer for the last 10 years or so. Wouldn't have it any other way. At $100 a deer, it gets expensive, real quick. Now, butcherig night, is as much a part of the hunt, as hunting itself.

[dg]

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I do all my own. Nothing fancy, but I make sure I get all the fat and slimy stuff off before going in the freezer.

[Tom2008]

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Yep we butcher are own deer also. We get are whole hunting party and we all pitch in on gettin the job done and split up all the meat in the end.

[Guest bowhunter56]

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Do it my self, even make some jerky,

[Chrud]

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We skin and debone the deer. But, we let a processor take care of making it into whatever.

[archerjg]

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We butcher ourselves on the farm.

Archerjg

[pa_sportsman]

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With the group I hunt, we usually butcher the deer ourselves.

[Nick]

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I take it to a guy on my way to work. Hes lisenced but doenst advertise so he only does a few deer a year. Hes the meat cutting manager at a Kroger store and does it on the side for a little extra money. He charges $35 a deer and saves me ALOT of time, a BIG mess, and ALOT of cut up hands and fingers.

[HarvDog]

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I've done one deer myself but I normally take them to a processor.

[Tominator]

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Usually do it myself, hopefully with the help of a buddy.

If I'm by myself and it's warm, I'll take it to a butcher, but that's getting expensive these days.

[Master_Chief]

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Do it myself. With the aid of others all the while teaching youngsters how to do it so they can do it next year.

[Smitteken]

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My family has always done it ourselves. After we kill a deer we bone them out and freeze the meat until february. Thats when we butcher hogs. So we do deer and pork all at once.

[buckbuster11]

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Both. There is a cheap place that butchers deer right across the road from my house so we normally take it there. However, there are times during the rifle season when every butcher shop in the county is filled up and won't take any more deer. In those cases, we do them ourselves.

[ksdeerhunter03]

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I do it myself. I know that I am eating the deer I killed. I know that I didnt let hair and fat that I didnt want go into the grinder. Its cheaper and I enjoy doing it.

[AaronS]

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We butcher ourselves on the farm.

Archerjg

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Thats sounds very painful.

I butcher my deer myself.

[Guest Andrea]

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We do it ourselves. Wouldn't have it any other way.

[hutchies]

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I normally send 1 to the slaughter house so I can have hamburger and sausage made out of it.

[brad dryden]

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My processer is great he will give you a set price on the size of the deer but dosent exede over $55 and he gives you the meat of your deer. I have done it before but I prefer processer.

[too_pointer]

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I usually have someone do it for me, but with the prices going up, and it doesn't matter what size your deer is, it is getting expensive I have a buddy who cuts them up, but he want 1/2 the deer to do it LOL. Lately though, I don't pay anything LOL

[Guest Finn]

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We skin and debone the deer. But, we let a processor take care of making it into whatever.

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Same here.

[Nosdog2]

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I didn't relize this many people did it themselves. I am the minority and I have a processor do it for me.

[RyanH]

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I HAVE A PROCESSER DO IT!

[ranchand99]

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Depends on how honest the butcher is.Several down here have been caught taking some of what is being brought to them,and selling it to someone else,or keeping some for themselves.I process my deer myself,but there is one guy I trust to make deerburger for me.