Cost of butcher bill for my elk!!!!!

[Jingles]

The prices you guys are paying and the fact that when you take in 100 pounds hanging you get back 60 pounds cut and wrapped is the reason I haven't taken anything to a butcher shop in over 10 years.  I figure I saved the money to purchase a vacuum sealer and ended up with more meat that was actually trimmed the way it should be.

[Hawgdawg]

I took in 4 quarters bone in and a bag of scrap meat . Had 2 large roasts cut a bunch of round steak , hot Italian bulk and breakfast bulk sausage and the rest made into 80/20 burger cut and wrapped was $135 w/tax. Took in Friday morn was done Fri afternoon . DD meats in mountlake terrace is awesome. Everything has tasted great so far.

Kind of scary when most meat shops are maxed out with no hooks left to hang meat. guess you just timed it right with that city shop. So much for hanging/chilling and flash freezing. Hope you refrigerator freezer can keep up the freezing without souring meat. In and out in half a day............get ur dun! LOL

[scottcrb]

Yeah I picked it up on Monday and all was frozen and loaded back in cooler and they had gotten 40 deer in over the weekend and we're maxed out . Got lucky with timing only had one other elk come in during ML season and it was after mine.

[Buckslaya]

Barts has always been good to me. $260 sounds pretty good.

[Hawgdawg]

Wecome hunter, if you could just take a seat and have some of our complimentary popcorn we will have that done for you shortly. Seems no one else is as successful as you this hunting season. Don't worry about that hanging and freezing stuff that is all over rated.
we got two in last year and we are pro's now. Next Customer please!

[scottcrb]

I'm sure DD meats has done plenty of animals. There customer service and quality is and has been great. Their butchers are no rookies. Is there  a benefit to hanging quarters for A week.or more ?

[Romulus1297]

My butcher got $0.00 for last years buck. They let it MOLD 10 lbs jerkey 20 lbs summer sauage 20 lbs pepperoni. MOLD is a appetizing snack

[Hawgdawg]

I'm sure DD meats has done plenty of animals. There customer service and quality is and has been great. Their butchers are no rookies. Is there  a benefit to hanging quarters for A week.or more ?

I personally think that hanging wild meat longer then it takes to chill it down is a waste of time. Age it in the freezer! My parody comment was based on the gentlemen that brings his game in and get's it out the same day!!! I find that pretty amazing unless you have no business, Send that much meat home to a homeowner and it will spoil before he gets it frozen.  Most successful shops have been looking for locker space to take game in. But then we harvest game.

[Heavyfoot]

My final bill was 252 out the door at Stewart's Meats that's with 20 pounds of Jerky. I did some myself but had them do the quarters. After 8 hours in the field and a few hours prepping the meat with hand cramps and fatigue.The money was well worth the grind and wrapping, labeling etc. So the price seems reasonable all things considered.

[huntnnw]

Coulda bought a nice grinder for $260.. Shocked how many people don't do their own meat

[nw_bowhunter]

I used golden steer this year as in the past and no real surprises. They handed me a price sheet, weighed the deer and processed meat for .89 per pound. No speciality cuts done , just basic butcher. I had $100 bill when I picked up animal.  Did you check their prices out and discuss with butcher before leaving shop? Sounds to me as they charged you for an avg elk weight and instead of your actual weight unless there min is $2.00 per pound. 

[mfswallace]

I just love hearing you guys crying about your butchers. Be a real hunter and Do it yourself. I help out during the game season with a local butcher and see the blood shot half gutted fly maggot' sour meat that some of you so called hunters bring in. You want to talk about why your friends/wife call it GAMEY. Get a clue. If they take way to much time to bone it and cut all your mistakes out of it they are still hardly making wages.
When you took it in you did not ask the prices?  Where you such a idiot that you left 50lbs of rib bones on it so you paid for top weight price for that?
Remember great white hunters. The real hunt/work starts after the smoke clears.

PS and when you put 3 rounds into the bone and blood shot half the carcass, if you have a little box of meat to pick up your butcher did the job, YOU DID NOT! And no they didn't steal your meat you screwed up!

Why so self righteous, are you a butcher that rips his customers off???   Go back and read original post, he didn't ask for you high horse opinion about something you know nothing about in this instance( how it was killed)!! You are way off base to tell ALL "great white" hunters how chitty they are!!! 

[pianoman9701]

Could you have processed it yourself? Do you have the fridge, the grinder, the knives, and the band saw? Keep it in perspective. A lot of work goes into processing an elk and your final price per lb for the meat is nominal. Sounds about right to me.

[KNOPHISH]

Some people beach that they got ripped off, oh my deer/elk weighed xxx & I only got back x. Do you want the bones & blood shot meat back too? heh heh

[Bullkllr]

Realistically, if the OP paid $2.25 per pound (hanging weight, his numbers) on a basic cut & wrap job, you can't say that isn't a little ridiculous. Don't most process beef for .55-.75 cents/lb. or maybe a little more now? Game maybe more, but not that much more...

OP- is 3 pages enough to convince you to start doing it yourself  ?