I'm looking for some advise on Butchering books. I have seen some online and 2 in the book store, but thoughtit would best to ask for recommendations. I've hunted for years and have had it easy enough to just drop off the dressed deer at a butcher. For various reasons, I'd like to try it myself on the next one. Thanks.

I learned to butcher by

After Your Deer Is Down by Josef Fischel and Leonard Lee Rue III
copyright 1981
Published by Winchester Press
1421 South Sheridan Rd.
P.O. Box 1260
Tulsa Olklahoma
74101
A great book with step by step clear pictures and also has some recipeis.

Thanks! Though I have been living in NC for the last many years, 80% of all my hunting has been in NJ. I enjoyed your site. Thanks!

Thanx for the tip jersey hunter...I just went and ordered a used copy on amazon.com for $1.90 plus $3.49 shipping!

check this sit out:

http://www2.mailordercentral.com/lemproducts/prodinfo.asp?number=001

I bought two books from amazon and thought they were good and that I wuold have a good idea of what I was doing. But when I started I found that I had to keep looking at different pages and then nothing looked the same as it did in the book.

My best reccommendation is to rent a video from your library and watch it. I found two of them that were very good. It made it 100 times easier to understand.

After I watched them I found that butchering my own meat was not only better, but cheaper and sort of relaxing to do.

I think that the butchers take part of the loins when they do them for you.