It's not that I "don't trust" anyone else as much as it is that I really enjoy the entire experience of "from field to table". The first deer I killed in MD I took to the butcher because I lived in a townhouse and did not have a big enough area to cut it up. I wanted some summer sausage made and he told me it would be awhile because he would send mine in with other folks and it would all be processed togeter...meaning I would get a mix of mine and other peoples meat back. NO THANK YOU! Plus, I am certain that the care I take in processing my own yields me more meat. I do steaks, roasts, burger, jerky, breakfast sausage, summer sausage and will begin to do snack sticks as well. I like the fact that I do it all myself.
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With the possibilty of making a bunch of jerky real, now....I'm going to, again.
This will extend my hunting season. I haven't hunted this past week)....because I didn't know what I'd do with the meat. Now....I do.
Love to take a couple late-season does....and put some people on theirs.
Jerky makes a wonderful Christmas gift Jeff...if you can bring yourself to give it up. For every 3 pounds of meat, I get a little less than a pound of jerky when done. Enjoy
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Yes I do. It's much cheaper and I also don't trust some of the butcher shops on who's deer I'm getting back. I do take my trimmings In to get made to whatever I want but I won't take them In till at least February after all the gun kills are done and processed.
I do all my own because I really don't trust a processor. Its not necessarily the procesor I don't trust per se, more the other people's deer. You have no idea how the other deer were handled prior to getting to the processing place. I don't want my deer next to some rancid thing someone else brought in. Also, there is absolutely no way of knowing the meat you have in the freezer is from your deer, especially in any sausage-type preparation. No thanks. I know how my deer was handled and that all my stuff is clean. If I get the blowsh!ts from it,its my own fault!
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Do you Butcher your own Meat
