My processor is an idiot.
 

In the past I would either process my own deer or take it to a local custom meat shop if I was busy. I didn't have time to butcher the doe I shot recently so I brought it to this shop. The way they operate is they give you a sheet to fill out of what cuts you want. I put the typical stuff. Steaks, Tenderloin, Summer Sausage, and told them to grind whatever was leftover. I went to pick it up today and they had ground my entire deer. This really ticks me off becuase I paid in advance with a credit card so I couldn't just refuse the meat because then I would be out my $50.00. So now I'm stuck with a freezer full of ground meat. Which is bad because theres plenty you can do with ground meat it just ticks me off that they can't follow simple instructions. I mean they offered no explanation as to why they ground the whole thing. And they have done a good job in the past so I don't get why this time was different. So to make a long story short I won't be going to that processor any more. More then likely I will give away most of this meat and butcher my next deer myself. Sorry for the long story. I just needed to vent.

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That sucks. Imo they should have remburst youhalf if not all your money back for thier mishap. To me that would be just good biz.

PS do you want fries with that [8D]

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I would ask to see what the heck had happened, but it is probaly to late now. I have a couple of friends I work with that bought two pigs off a butcher here. one of the guys got a pig with no porkchops and the other one got a pig that was just porkchops. Needless to say there was quite a mix up there. That could be something along the line of what you got. Someone else may have all your steaks now instead of you. Good luck with it..

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Nothing rings true as the old saying "If you want something done right Do it yourself!!

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That's why I find time to do it myself....

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Absolutely right.

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Hey at least you got all your meat my local limp XXXX butcher gave me less then half last yr he said here,s what we got out of your 1deer. Get this I took in 5 in all for our group needless to say the law was called in oh they found the rest after thelaw and the GWwent into the freezer. Hiden in a different freezer but the stoop for got to pull my name off of the baskets they pack the meat into. I wasn,t the only guy that almost got stiffed.

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See this exact reason right here is why i like how our buisness runs. I have processed deer with my grandfather for 6-7 years now and the buisness will be mine next year( he has been doing it for 30 years and was a butcher for 50 years ). we do about 100-150 deer a year and this is how we do ours. The customer is there to watch the entire thing , they see what is thrown away , what is kept , and if something is bad and needs to be thrown away we show it to them and let them decide for themselves if they want to keep it. It is also helpfull to them that if they are there they can stop us immediately if there is somehing they want done differently then when they told us when they first got there , plus there is no way we could grind up someone's whole deer if they didn't want it ground with them there.

We are done the whole deer in 30 minutes , (we schedule them 30 minutes apart ) debone everything , if wanted , stew meat , cube steaks , sausage , burger , pull loins or loin chops , deboned steaks or bone in steaks. $25 ! we put everything in individual bags and the customers go home and wrap it to their liking !

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I hate to say it but I think a lot of the deer butchers seem to be robbing people anymore. I used to always do my own deer, and some for friends. As usual, it got overwhelming and now I don't even butcher my own anymore. I have gone to using some of the commercial places. Am I satisfied? Not at all. Either the deer are weighing a lot less than they used to, a lot of meat is being left on the bones, or someone is just plain taking a share for themselves. A good friend of mine took a nice sized buck ( Penna. deer) to a butcher several years ago. The deer had been shot thru the chest, ruining little if any meat. When he went to pick it up, he was given a bag og ground meat you could have carried in your hat and the rest of the meat could have fit in a shoebox. He asked for an explaination, and was told the deer was badly shot up. One pass-thru in the chest. Badly shot up. He went a little berserk and said he wasn't leaving until they gave him the rest of his meat. After a few minutes of debate, they gave him another bag og ground meat. Needless to say none of our group will go back there again.
I guess the only way to make sure that you get all you've got coming is to go back to doing it yourself anymore. What a shame it is that it seems none of these places are trustworthy anymore.

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like i said .......be there to watch them , see what they throw away , alot of places won't even let you stay there to watch , those are the places i wouldn't go to EVER . I can understand the big problem that everyone gets pissed off cause i have heard alot of "stealing" stories from the hunters that have gone to other places. No1 else where we cut deer will let you watch , and you get your deer back in a "few days " To them your a number and to us your a person. alot of these places treat us hunters like crap , but what they don't understand is without us hunters we would not have our cutting buisness. I do it to hang out with my grandfather , talk to the hunters , laugh have fun , and make a little money on the side.

plus i love hearing the hunting story from each deer !

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Everyone should learn how to butcher their deer themselves. I learned from a book. Granted it takes me longer than a pro but when I get done there isn't 1 ounce fat total left. And for those who have doubts about their skills, you'll still be left with ground meat, stew meat, shish ka bobs. plenty you can do if you screw up. But you won't know how easy it is till you try it. Let alone the $ savings.:)

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I would trust you to do mine, thats a good thing you have goin.

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yeah , it is a great thing going , deer cutting for me is my christmas club , helps out with the presents and stuff , and i enjoy all the time i get to spend with my granfather . I think next year i might be on my own cause of his age and all it's getting harder on him .It'll be very weird not having him out there with me cutting , but i know he will be there sitting hanging out with his old hunting pals , hearing the new "BS" i mean holy grail stories lol

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Unfortunately there is no test to becoming a butcher.

I would guess that drugs or alcohol played a major role in what they did, along with the chance that someone else came in and got your meat and they had no way of replacing it - so they gathered up all the loose ground meat that they could find to try to make it up to you.

I was in a butchershop one day and some deadbeats came in to pick up their deer and they had a big old box full of meat and they had the balls to ask if they had any beefsticks left over - because they would like to buy some extra.

Now I doubt if they had more than 40 lbs of meat when they deboned the deer that they road huntedin the first place and they had 60 lbs of meat in their box.

The only way the butcher shop would have anything extra is if they cheated someone else.

I hate it when I take a big old 175 lbs mulie and I come back and they try to hand me a 40 lbs box of meat.

I almost burned down the butchershop one time over that one. Ends up they came back and fessed up that they lost my meat and when they found it - they called me back and had me come and pick the rest up.

Their advice was not to skin or quartermy deer before I brought it in to be cut up. I brought them 1 1/2 deer to fill a 1 deer order this year - to make sure that they had enough meat. I just wonder now how much the bill will be when I get there.

$40 just to cut one deer up and I had 10 lbs of beef sticks, jerky, bologna, weiners, and kelbassa made.

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If i'm going to kill it,then i'm going to skin,quarter,grind,cube,package,thaw,grill and eat it...........learn to do yourself.its all part of the hunt.

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A couple days ago I got another deer. Since I am done with this semester of school I was able to butcher it myself this time. I would much rather do it myself everytime. But seeing how busy I was before there was no way I could find time. I was talking to some guys at my school and one of their dads processes deer so if I have to have someone else do one ofr me sometime I'm going to try this guys dad.

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That processor has been been pinching (steaks, tenderloins)meats from others that have brought meat into the place and you ended up with the grinds,,

shoot the place up or pay to have it done

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I also don't see the point of buying my deer back from a butcher at 4 dollars a pound..... I shot it..... I clean it.... and I make whatever the hell I want.

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If all processors were like Thinktwice there would be no threads like this. ;)
Caveat emptor and solid references are your best insurance against getting ripped off.

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50.00 to grind a deer. Not bad.

I much prefer to process my deer but in the past I've taken some in. Usually it waswhen we came back from deer camp in WI and we'd have as many as five deer at the same time. (It was almost entirely my job from gutting to cutting.) There was just no way I could get it all done and still work.

The processor I went was pretty expensive, if I remember correctly basic cutting was 70.00. My deer average 120.00 each.

I was pleased for the most part but one time I asked for 10#s of deer dogs. (my then hubby wanted some) They ended up hotdogitizing an entire deer! I don't even like hot dogs. Bleagh! It was like 60lbs of hotdogs.

Another time they gave me abig box of deer salami instead of my box of deer steaks and roasts. I didn't notice until I was unloading the boxes into the freezers. I called them and they said keep the salami, but they couldn't find my deer. 60lbs of salami. (but at leastI like salami)

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hey kevin1 , thanks man ! :D

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AMEN!

I found that out when I took my deer in a few years back. They wanted me to pay THEM $10 for my own deer hide!! I got most of the meat backsans the backstraps!!! I was so stinkin'mad. I've done my own butchering ever since.

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I’m lucky. There is a processor about 35min from me that is good! He makes almost anything that you can think of in-house. Basic processing of a cleaned deer is $40 I think. It does take awhile to get them back but, the specialty items get run in batches so you have to wait till enough people want that item. Every deer ticket has the weight put on it after it is boned out. He also goes over every ticket and inventories what you wanted and makes sure you got it. I have been using him for 10 years or a little more and it seams he is always adding a new specialty item or service. He even vacuum packs the meat at no extra cost. If anyone in SC wants info just pm me and I’ll get his number.

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"the specialty items get run in batches so you have to wait till enough people want that item"

I read this as you get a jumble of meat from other hunters. Some maybe not as particular as to field dressing as you. That's why I do it my self. No mistery meet in my stuff. The finished product relies on the meat that it was made from. At least if you do it your self you know what to expect.

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True, but he is selective about the meat and his cooked sausages are to die for. Not to mention his snack sticks, summer sausages, canadian bacon, hash, hot dogs, and baloney.....