Just finished deboning.........only 52 LB's of grinding meat.Wifey went crazy with more roast,steak and steak fingers.............24 LB's.Oh well we'll still be able to make plenty of burger,Italian sausage and breakfast sausage,hell if I run low I'll grind her roast.
I have learned one thing.......killing,field dressing,skinning,quartering and deboning 3 deer in less than a 24 hour period is exhausting.....even with the help of wifey who is an excellent butcher.Setting my limit at two per weekend next year.
Mattie I used to drop my deer at the processor,they make excellent Bohemian and summer sausage.That processor is 35 miles east of me.The other processor is 40 miles north.......and they are awful.Both have jacked their prices to the point I'd rather do it myself.I can't yet do the ring sausages or summer sausage but I'll get to that.The deer I dropped their two years ago was a nice fat close to 200 lb on the hoof 8 point.I paid $50 just to drop it and have it skinned,when I picked it up my weight was light and all I had done was bohemian sausage,burger,steaks and roast.I dropped another $175 at pick up.......wish I could remember my final weight.Anyway it worked out to damn near $4 a pound.
