RE: Need some info on butchering
I wish this was posted monday becuase tuesday i just cut up a doe and i could have takin pictures.
The next deer i do ill try and do pics.
But for now.
Skin your deer and take out the back straps. (if your not sure where they are its the meat that goes along the back RIGHT next to the spine on both sides)
Then take off the shoulders just kinda flap them like a bird would do and you will kinda see where to cut.
Basicly just cut all the skin and what not thats inbetween the shoulder and carcase.
Then once your shoulders are off cut your carcase off from the hind quarters, Right where the spine meets the butt.
Then split the hind quarters in to two, and take one down.
Next clean it up by taking all the fat and other stuff off of it.
Next you will notice a peice of meat that kinda has a seam going around it and if you look at it it kinda looks like a FOOTBALL.
That there is a roast. run your finger around that seam and kinda loosen it up so you can see what you are doing. Then where the seam kind comes up CUT straight down to the bone.
Then just kinda cut that football peice of meat off the bone you hit.
THEN on the other side of that bone you have a BIG HUNK OF MEAT.
thats very easy to get out, just cut staright down like how you did the football one untill you hit he bone.
take that off and you should have this BIG SQUARE peice of meat that kinda wants to fall apart down the middle,
Do just that kinda pull it apart and cut it in half to make 2 SQUARE peices of meat, then on one you will have kinda like a tube lookin peice cut that off and you can use that as a roast or burger what ever you want.
But when you get that off you should have
1 footbal lookin peice
2 square peices and
1 tube lookin peice.
Those are all roast or can be cut in to steaks or jerky or what ever you want.
The rest of the meat on the bone gos for burger,
Repeat all that on the other quarter.
As for shoulders, there aint much on them as for roast so we just put all that for burger.
I hope this helps and if you have any questions let me know and i will try to help.
Mike.