I use to do my own. But it just got to where it kills my back. Most of the time I end up doing it by my self, and that just got old... I did like doing it my self because then I knew I got all the meat possible off that deer and it was cut the way I wanted it... 2 years ago I shot a nice 8 point and got it mounted, the guy also did the meat processing for no charge because he was doing the mount.... Well I got 23 pounds of meat off of a 150 pound dressed out buck.. I was beyond pissed off... Then he got mad at me because he thought I was accusing him of stealing it... Needless to say he wont ever get any business from me again... Had a new person do my deer last year and he did a nice job.. I felt I got ALL of the meat from my deer..