Butcher poll

[ClownColor]

Was just curious after reading an article in F & S. How many of us butcher our own deer? "Self Butcher" or "take it in"

SELF BUTCHER

[monstermoose78]

Self Butcher

[fr0sty]

self

[matchset]

I butcher all my deer, bear and moose myself.

but I do drop off a deer at "flicker Meats" on county road E for some smoked brats and other tasty treats

[skee0025]

Take it in. When the boys get a little older and I have more time I'll start butchering my own

[perchking]

self but usually bring some of it in for sausage.

[K_Josh87]

We started butchering our own about 4 years ago... Now its a lot more fun to hunt deer knowing I don't have to fork out 200 bucks to have it processed... I have done 3 so far this year, and we have one more muzzy tag to fill, so hopefully one more to go...

[sportfish]

Self and and grind my own burger but I'm lazy and have the store a mile away make the sausage !!

[Lunker]

Self butcher. Bring in the scrap for sausage or ground.

[certified jumbo]

self

[TDH]

self

[eyeguy 54]

Self, be the deer grasshopper....

[BuckSutherland]

Self. Way to easy to make summersausage, pepper sticks, jerky and burger. I keep the backstraps and make mini steaks on the grill. I am going to take some in and get some venison bacon made.

I have a friend that took in two 140lb deer. Cost him $680. I did my 160 for about $43 so far. Probably another 30-40 for everything else yet.

At least doing it yourself you can take time and get all the hair and glands off. I have tasted some pretty rancid stuff in the past.

[Jeff13]

TAKE IN until I move and get a bigger garage my wife will not allow me to butcher, in the garage. She seems to think that there's going to be a blood bath in there or something. My wife is not a deer hunter as you may imply, just a consumer off all my deer meat! I don't enjoy paying hundreds of dollars to have it processed that's for sure.

[Big-Al]

Self

[pike79]

Self

[CANOPY SAM]

Took two deer into the locker plant many years ago. Never again. Done dozens of em' myself. Summer sausage, ring sausage, breakfast sausage, brats, butterfly steaks, snack sticks, jerky...everything marinated, cured and smoked to perfection.

I let the locker plant do my beef and pork. I do everything else.

[Jameson]

self. I'll do the burger meat, and make some brats/polish myself, too.

[mainbutter]

Take it in.

A flyer in a gas station pointed me to a guy local to our hunting land. $80 a deer for meat processing including grinding, sounded fine for me, as I have no where to do it myself (Could you imagine me having a deer hanging out front at our duplex on the east bank or even showing up with the carcass?? lol, heads turn when I'm putting the CANOE on the car) and none of the right tools. I was so impressed with the end product, I went back this year.

I want to do it myself eventually, but I'm only into my second year hunting and still have a lot to learn.

I'll let someone else make sure they get the good stuff off the carcass and discard the bones etc, but I make my own jerky and am starting to make my own sausage now. I think it's kinda funny that there are already multiple responses of "butcher myself, take it in for sausage". I absolutely won't let anyone else steal the fun of making jerky/sausage out of MY deer.

[Double D]

Take it in.

We -in our personal opinions- treat deer hunting as a vacation and we would rather spend our nights drinking beer, talking smart and playing cards than cutting up deer. We do one once every few years for the heck of it, don't mind it, our group just votes to take them in.

DD

[eyeguy 54]

To clarify I do take some of my trimmings in to get brats of some kind. I make a lot of jerky and steaks. :>)

[pikerliker]

Both I guess. I skin and de-bone myself. Usually cut myself some steaks and chops and take the rest of the trimmings in to have sausage made at a meat market.

[zepman]

Both I guess. I skin and de-bone myself. Usually cut myself some steaks and chops and take the rest of the trimmings in to have sausage made at a meat market.

+1. Exactly what I do.

[John478]

Do it all myself (with some help from the wife) I figure I’ve paid for all my equipment many times over by doing it myself.

For some reason it just seems to taste better knowing I did it all myself

[jay83196]

That's the part I just don't enjoy...I enjoy putting prework into hunting, scouting setting up stands, cameras etc once I gut it I'm done...I either give it to couple different friends who have big families and can benefit from it or get it butchered and give half the meat away to friends family anyway. Wife doesn't care for it do I eat it alone....