Deer Processing?

[Outdoors Junkie]

Just wondering how many of our members process their own deer?

[Cody Gruchow]

i do. it takes me about 3 hours to cut it all up and wrap it.

[beeker]

we do it ourselves.. debone everything.. wrap the steaks and roast.. and make sausage and sticks with the rest through richards market in maplewood.

[HD]

I do my own.....and a couple hundred other peoples....... 

[deadeye]

Depends on timing and weather.  If it's warm I don't want to spend the season cutting deer.

[Moving2thecountry]

I did last year, and field dressed, learned all from the video here:  http://fw.ky.gov/newsrelease.asp?nid=242

[BiggA]

I do my own. I bought a cheap grinder so i can make burger out of the trimmings or if I have excess cash I will take them in and have sausage made. Though I would like to learn that process as well.

[Randy Kaar]

One of the new guys in our camp has all the stuff to process deer, so we will be helping him.
Richards market does make some good sausage and sticks!

randy

PS: Beeker, Did you know Richard died earlier this year?

[Joe]

I don't mind processing deer at home in fact it can be fun if you have a few friends or family over and open a 12 pack of cold ones. But in recent year we have opted to send them in for processing.

One of the new guys in our camp has all the stuff to process deer, so we will be helping him.
Richards market does make some good sausage and sticks!

randy

PS: Beeker, Did you know Richard died earlier this year?

Are you talking about the Richards Market on Frost Ave.?

[Randy Kaar]

Yep, Thats the one.

randy

[Joe]

I grew up in that neighborhood over on Barclay Ave. I spent a lot of money up there on baseball cards when I was a kid.
I knew Richards made sausage and such, but do they process the whole deer?

[22lex]

I cut them up myself at home. I have a decent grinder, and a good slicer to make jerky with.

I usually eat the tenderloins that evening of the kill, cut out the straps, and turn everything else into burger (except for the roasts that go towards jerky).

Been looking into the sausage part of it, and might giver 'er a try this year.

[Randy Kaar]

I grew up on Mcaffee and larp, Richards doesnt do deer processing anymore. but his son does
at black steer meats on white bear ave and minnehaha. Richards does still do the sausage and
sticks though,

randy

[dakids]

We do everything but the smoking of the sausage and we are going to give that a test run on a couple of ends this year.  We are planning on making a big smoker out of an old wood burning stove in my dads garage.

[Realtree]

We butcher our own deer, cut out some butterfly chops and steaks to throw on the grill and then take the remaining trimmings in and have them made into snack sticks. Hopefully after this deer season we will be doing all of that ourselves also, just need to purchase the equipment.

[Go Big Red!]

I break down and pay someone to process it for me.  No time with 2 young kids at home.

[Joe]

I grew up on Mcaffee and larp, Richards doesnt do deer processing anymore. but his son does
at black steer meats on white bear ave and minnehaha. Richards does still do the sausage and
sticks though,

randy

So you can bring in your venison trimmings and they'll process that into sausage and snack sticks? I might have to give that a try this year. I've been dropping my deer off at Angus Meats on Hwy 61 the last 3 or 4 years.

[brandbll]

We do everything but the smoking of the sausage and we are going to give that a test run on a couple of ends this year.  We are planning on making a big smoker out of an old wood burning stove in my dads garage.

If your looking for smokers check out craigslist.  Lots of people clearing out their garages and those things take up space.  My buddy got a decent one last year for just 10 bucks and it works perfectly.

In the two years i've hunted i've never shot a deer(crappy land for it), but last year a guy in our party did and was going to donate it until he found out what a pain it was to go through the process so he just gave it to me.  My buddy helped me quarter it and then i took the rest of the meat off on my own(with a little help from the intra web).  I clean a lot of fish so it was sort of a similar fun challenge getting all the meat off.  I didn't get a meat grinder until it was too late but i just used the scraps for shredded BBQ venison to bring to parties and get togethers.  It was a hit everywhere i took it, so i'm considering doing it again this year but i also might do some experimenting with the meat grinder as well. 

I'll probably also use some in my buddies smoker and try to make some jerky as well this year...

[guythathunts]

We do it our selves. It really isn't hard at all. None of us had ever had any background doing it and 4 years ago we decided to give it a try. After the 1st one we were fairly proficient. Now it's a breeze. We do bring the scraps in for sausages. Other than that - steaks - roasts - jerky are done at home.