will79: First, do everything you can to put it to that processor. Second, make sure everyone around those parts knows this guy's methods and bad practices, put an ad in the paper if you can. Three, in the future do your own processing. An elk is, what? three times as much meat as a deer, four times as much meat as a deer? So you just cut on them for four times as long or get a few friends to help you out. The same process is used. I don't like the idea of using processors for lots of reasons. The worst case is your experience, but even in the best case do you really know what you are getting? Are you sure he is giving you all your tenderloins, all your backstrap? Are you sure you are getting your meat or is it possibly the meat of some other guy who let his animal lie on the ground for 18 hours before field dressing it and packing it out? You don't know. Process all your meat yourself, always. That is my opinion and other opinions are likely going to be different.