We do all our own now. Kitchen isn't the best place, aside from wife problems with the mess [8D] its to warm in there.

I have a friend who remodels kitchens, he got me two 6 foot counter tops. I then went to home depot, bought saw horses, the kind that you can adjust the height of.

Me and my two sons cut up, his first deer this year, was a small button buck, but with me cutting off the pieces, and handing it to one of them to work on. We were skinned, cut, ground, wrapped and cleaned up in around 2 hours.

With someone faster than my sons, I could see having it done AFTER the skinning, in about an hour (I am a slow skinner).

The biggest reason we started doing it ourselves is that my wife is VERY picky about how the meat is trimmed to remove the silver skin etc. the butchers don't take the time and she would end up doing it before cooking. Now we take care of it ourselves, we can package and cut roasts to the sizes we want.

--Bob

--Bob