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One of the many reason I have become primarily a small game hunter.
eah I don’t understand why you would send your game to be processed for me it’s a point of pride to say yeah that jerky/summer sausage/snack sticks backstrap I did that!
i use the commercial processor close to our lease. We have the deer field dressed and at the butcher within 30 minutes. Am back in the woods within an hour.
I normally processed my own, but I took the last two deer that I harvested to Kuby's in north Dallas. I certainly was led to believe that I got back the meat from the quarters / straps that I dropped off.
https://kubys.com/wild-game-processing/
$20?!?!? Here in NY it’s up to $80I processed my own deer for most of my life. My dad was the same way. Hell, we couldn’t afford to have a deer processed when I was a kid. These days, I’ll gladly pay a local processor to handle the sausage and burger making duties. I honestly don’t even remember the last time I skinned a deer. I’ve skinned more than my share of wild pigs over the past couple of years, but $20 is just too easy to pay for someone else to handle the skinning, gutting and getting rid of the carcass. Doesn’t hurt my feelings a bit to pay that fee for the convenience. Keeps food on the table of a really good family too.
$80 to skin and gut?! Wow! That’s insane.$20?!?!? Here in NY it’s up to $80
Oh. No sorry. $80 to skin and cut it into steaks and the like. The cutting is done on the hunters end.$80 to skin and gut?! Wow! That’s insane.
Yeah. I paid $140 to have my last one processed. That included skinning, gutting and processing. I think this one is whole backstraps burger and maybe some summer sausage. I can’t keep up with all of them at this point.Oh. No sorry. $80 to skin and cut it into steaks and the like. The cutting is done on the hunters end.
That's hilarious.I guess I've been pretty fortunate to have honest/reasonably priced processors over the years.
Had used, and become friends with the same butcher for several years all my deer and a few nilgai, so when I shot a bull eland, took it to same shop, hide on. Ordered filet mignon, some smoked sausage, cube steaks, roasts and rest ground.
My wife went with me to pick up the meat and we had gone in to pay for the processing when I looked out the window and saw the employees standing behind my Suburban, waiting to load the boxes of meat. I told the wife to finish writing the check when Rudy told her the amount and went out to unlock the car.
When she asked the price and Rudy said $600, she was shocked & replied, "Oh no, you don't understand, we furnished the meat, you just processed it". She had not looked out the window to see the number of boxes. Rudy smiled and said, "Yes maam, but it is a LOT of meat."
We had to get a 2nd freezer to handle the resulting meat, as the bull's live weight was just under 2000#.
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hps