I had some dirty stuff happen to a meat processor I used to go to. I finally caught on when I took him a 500 pound elk and got back a 20 pound box of meat... What happened to the rest? At first he tried to say I quartered it up wrong. That didn't fly because I didn't quarter the meat. Just did normal field dressing.We draggedit out whole with a four wheeler and my supervisor and I loaded it up in his truck and hauled it to the processor about 20 miles away. Then the guy tried to say it was all shot up. I hit that elk once, in the neck. That was the only hole in it other than the field dressing. After I told him that, he told me to take my small box of meat and never come back.

It's not like it was a big bull or anything, just a cow, but I get more meat than that from a deer. I've heard things like that from various other processors too.

I've never had a taxidermist lose anything of mine. I had one turkey done once, and it took about two years to get it back, and my name was spelled wrong on it... Never had one lost though.