Fresh as it gets!

[BuckNazty]

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Anyone else out there that would rather process your own deer than pay a processor? I've used processors in the past but wasn't happy with the final product. Maybe it's that I'm to picky or to cheap lol. I like being able to cut the meat exactly how I prefer. I also got a $90 electric grinder for burger meat that works well. It is some work but I've gotten pretty good at plus I enjoy it. Get some tunes going and a cooler of cold ones and I'll get after it. Anyone else prefer to process your deer yourselves?

 

[deerkiller300wsm]

I do. I know what happens to the meat from when it hits the ground till it's in my belly! And I know it's the same deer I shot and not some idiots deer who drove around showing it off in the bed of his truck for 3 days when it's 65 degrees outside

 

[MMHunter]

I'm with you one all three: tunes, cold ones, and cleaning my own. I'll still use a processor on occasion b/c of lack of extra time. But, I prefer to do it myself to save the money.

 

[treefarmer]

The only way to go. Keep ice jugs with the meat in a cooler, do a little each evening and enjoy the results for a year.

 

[tree_ghost]

I'm a self processor also!

 

[vonhogslayer]

yyepp I do my own also!!

 

[bigtex]

Been doing my own for many, many years.
saves me some $$$ and a better end product. Also do my own taxidermy.
Guess I'm a tight wad, lol.

 

[bcartervol98]

I wish I had the time and knowledge to do it myself but until that happens its to the processor for me.

That is some great looking work there though!

 

[Bone Collector]

I do my own.

 

[cbhunter]

I am in awe of how clean that meat is! I do my own to but it would take me a week to get ALL the silver skin off. good job!

 

[easy45]

looks good

 

[mathews338]

Good looking meat. I do my own also and the end product is just what you have there, nothing but 100% meat with none of that silver skin. That crap makes eating Jerky a pain in the butt.

 

[Realtree]

I always do my own. Do it the way you want it and get a lot more out of a deer.

 

[BallisticV]

Those are some good looking back straps! I like to do it my self. When I'm in a crunch I'll drop it off.

 

[kgt]

Always have done my own. Takes a few hours, but it's well worth it. I have the meat grinder attachment for my wife's KitchenAid mixer and it works awesome.

 

[redblood]

I am in awe of how clean that meat is! I do my own to but it would take me a week to get ALL the silver skin off. good job!

x2

 

[DntBrnDPig]

I do my own and getting better every time. Nothing like getting the right cut made and looking at a piece of meat with lust.

 

[DntBrnDPig]

I am in awe of how clean that meat is! I do my own to but it would take me a week to get ALL the silver skin off. good job!

x2

Sharp knife is key!

 

[Bshock]

I always do. And I would strongly recommend a good saver besides a grinder best thing I ever bought.

 

[BuckNazty]

I have use one those Havalon knives that comes with replaceable blades. Best investment I've made. I even use it on fish. Only problem is that if you cut yourself it's going to be a good bleeder. They are surgical blades

 

[HuntNShoot]

So what all you got there Buck? I take my to a processor but hate the fact that I don't know if I get my deer back. Is the big pile on the right throwaway?

 

[catman529]

It's work, but very satisfying. And a cold one or two makes it even better.

 

[BuckNazty]

Yea the pile on the right is throw away. I've got steaks cut out of the hind quarters (top of tray on the left) jerky strips (middle left of table)cubes to grind (on the tray to the left) and I cut my tender loins into cubes for roll ups (center) and I cut my back straps into butterfly steaks (not yet done in pic).

 

[tasaman]

Love doing it myself but wish I can be two places at once. Still want to hunt!

 

[stryker]

I've been doing mine for around 20 yrs and I'm only 33 so I was taught at a young age. It's part of the kill to me anyways

 

[chris1976]

Been harassing deer for 30 years, used a processor twice.

 

[chris1976]

Awful lot of meat still in that scrap pile.

 

[cecil30-30]

I pay. Too much work. I processed 10 last year and I said that was the last ones I process.

 

[Urban_Hunter]

There's no way I could afford to pay to process the deer I kill. I killed my first when I was 11, old man told me to watch closely he would only show me once. I'm over 80 of my own and with friends I've done I figure close to 100... how much $$$ is that?

I did have one processed due to an emergency... I will say I felt confident I got my deer back and everything was good... minus the burger. For some reason the burger was VERY gamey and I had to throw it away.

 

[infoman jr.]

I've never had one processed by someone else.