[wku man]

I'd like to learn to butcher my own, too, but I don't have nearly the garage or freezer to do it. Someday.

Sorry 'bout the knee jerk reaction earlier. I'm so used to the bunny huggers and wolf lovers on these hunting threads that I tend to shoot too soon sometimes. I'll check my backstop next time.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[driftdiver]

One of my brothers butchers for extra money. He’s pretty good at it. Ya need a nice stainless table and some good knives.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

"I'd like to learn to butcher my own, too, but I don't have nearly the garage or freezer to do it."

Up until last year, I would occasionally process my own deer and hogs, just for the satisfaction of doing so, and I'd borrow the grinder and slicer from a friend of mine.

Last year I took a deer to the local guy that, after skinning, weighed 210 pounds. I got 55 pounds of meat back and it wasn't the cuts that I had instructed be done. Clearly it wasn't my deer or my order. Somebody got a few boxes of really nice venison.

I bit my lip and bought the grinder/sausage stuffer, slicer, and smoker, and began processing all of our game. We already had an area in one of our sheds set up to hang and age the meat before taking it to be processed.

I'm having a blast so far, but it is a lot of work and I'm not as fast doing the butchering as someone who has been doing it for a living.