ORIGINAL: gzg38b

I think it's funny how you guys that freak out about the purity of your processed venison likely have no problem eating a big mac or a steak from the Outback. [8D]

I've never processed a deer myself. I've never had anybody show me how. I might try it someday if I can get somebody to teach me the right way. My dad always paid the processor, and that's what I do.

I just drop it off whole, gutted with the skin on, and pick it up the next day wrapped, packaged, and labeled. It looks exactly like what you'd see at a grocery store. Sausage, burger, steaks, roast, you name it. For $75 that's worth it to me. It would take me 5 or 6 hours to do it myself, and it wouldn't be as good as the professional butcher who does it for me. I can work 2 hours of overtime to pay for it. No brainer.

I have no problem paying somebody to plow my driveway when it snows either. And I pay to get my oil changed too! Does that mean I'm not a real driver? If you take your bow to the shop to have work done, are you not a real archer? Come on....