230 and counting!

Soooo tired I've processed 230 deer so far with only my brother! The 18 hr. days are getting to me (have done 32 in 3 days), I feel like i,m getting to old to do this. I have a few upgrades to my tacoma that are sitting there waiting to br performed. But all in all the extra money is sweet! More to spend with the help of TW

 

sweet what part of nc are you located

 

I feel like I have a good butcher. I have been going to him for a few years and he treats me good. I get crap from older guys because they say all butchers steal meat. What do you have to say about this? Or does it seem like the customer receives less because the butcher tries to do it as quick as possible and doesn't get all the meat off?

Thats a lot of deer though. Any big boys?

 

Jeez that's a lot of deer. Some of my friends will pay me to do theirs but I will only take so many and I do it right there because I don't have a big freezer to store it with. But some of them are too squeamish to butcher it themselves but can kill it?

 

Murphy.. as far southwest as you can get in N.C.

 

I cant speak for anyone else but both me and my bro. hunt so taking meat is not necessary. I have heard that alot do tho. what hunters need to understand is that there is around a 35% return on what is brought in after skinning and processing. Also we only process one at a time when one goes into the freezer then we start on another.

 

LOL i only wish that 99% of the hunters that bring me deer use a buttout! They just leave the bladder and poopshoot (lack of a better term) in them

 

oh gotcha so you skin them and do everything i thought people just brought you the meat. if i ever use a butcher or "meat man" i bring them the meat not the whole deer i cut out the back straps rear hams and front shoulders and tenderloins

 

I have been a butcher for 28 yrs. and my brother has been one for 32 yrs. so it is mindless meatcutting lol. We have a 30 min. turn around from cutting table to freezer and some nights 20 min.

 

cut the meat up into different cuts gets the fat off and take the meat off the bone....

 

We get them both ways whole and quartered. Of course skinning is an extra charge. All of our business is by word of mouth I have never advertised!

 

I was always taught that shooting an animal was just one of the many steps you must take when hunting. Processing is just another step. It sure is a lot of work. I started processing my own after I saw the waste in my former butchers dumpster. I also have one of the original Butt-outs (the short one), it works great

 

gotcha thats the best type of advertisement too.

 

We make cubed steaks, burger,breakfast sausage,slice for jerky, Italian sausage, just about what anyone wants! It's your deer you can have it your way.. Kinda like Burger King lol

 

You wouldnt imagine how many so called "hunters" do not even know how to field dress a deer. I think it should be taught during thier hunter safety course!

 

I used to drive to Murphy to get beer, that is until Blairsville began to sell it. Keep up the good work meatman.

 

awesome any big ones come in this year. i didnt see anything up there i hunt up near dobson nc

 

I have done a little write up on how to break down a ham. I can do a full write up if i ever get back into the woods and kill me one. I will try to find the post of the ham and throw it up

 

here is a link to the ham write up.
http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/guns-hunting/183865-deer-butchering.html

 

Thats funny i work for Ingles in blairsville. I was sooooo happy when they started to sell beer!