If I had the stuff and did not live in an apartment complex I would love to though.

I found the majority of the butchers don't do a very good job

I just started. Never realized how easy it was! Also I get the cuts I want not what the processor thinksI should get.

I do my own too...had a small store do one when I first started hunting. Never pay to have it done again. It's so much better and satisfying when I do it all myself. I have had some burger ground up with bacon. But I watched them do it right there on the spot. It was pretty good.


chris

all the time i do my own

looks like most guys do their own

i always do my own partly cause iput incanning jarsmost of it anyway and i made a power grinder out of a old hand one

I dont. I used to hunt with a bunch of guys years ago, and we used to cut them up, and take the scraps in to have sausage made, and I never did like the venison then. Now I hunt alone, and I take the whole dee in to someone here, and I have never tasted anything better.

Have been doing our own deer for about 10 yrs now.
Couple things I've found: you (obviously) can butcher your deer to your preference---i.e. trim em up better, as well as doing it more timely.
The big thing is----if you take it to a butcher then your clean, well processed meat gets mixed up with Joe Douche-Bag's who rode around to fivetavern's withit before the butcher shop &NO field dressing. (YES I've seen ithappen)
Some butchers will process your meat by itself---your own batch for sausage --IF you bring in say 100 or 50#'s or whatever--ask em.
This is clearly the way to go.

My 2 Cents.

Mark

I enjoy doing my own deer.In my familyit's very much a part of the whole hunting tradition. Even if I could have it done for free I'd still do my own. It's just what we do.