I bought a Cabelas meat slicer, the bigest one because I wanted to slice venison dry beef. It would not do it, it bogged down and stopped even with very very thin slices like you expect dry beef to be. I took it back. When I was in HS, I cut meat in a small town grocery store, I sliced a lot of dry beef and our slicer went through a big piece of dry beer like a hot knife through butter. No pun intended bit I don't think these sporting goods stores slicers have the beef to do the job on certain things.