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Author Topic: What prompted you to learn to process your own Big Game VS the Butcher?  (Read 20116 times)

Offline DOUBLELUNG

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Re: What prompted you to learn to process your own Big Game VS the Butcher?
« Reply #60 on: December 02, 2014, 04:04:46 PM »
Combination of money and wanting to know how.  Killed my first solo, then asked an experienced friend to help - we were both making $671.32/mo take home, and my offer to spring $2.99 for a 12-pack of Schaefer cans was too sweet to resist.  Rent was $335, and that remaining $336.32 was stretched across tags, gas, potatoes, coffee and beer.  Sometimes all that was left near the end of the month was game meat, coffee and potatoes.
As long as we have the habitat, we can argue forever about who gets to kill what and when.  No habitat = no game.

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Re: What prompted you to learn to process your own Big Game VS the Butcher?
« Reply #61 on: December 07, 2014, 04:56:57 PM »
I didn't grow up in a hunting family. I butchered my first solo deer this year (I'm 30), and I feel like I earned it a lot more. I've shot deer in other states, and had butchers do my work, with very little complaint. My hamburger was much more gamey than I would have liked, but the steaks and sausage were amazing. I will say that I like having my meat that day as well. I waited 2 months for my butcher to ship my meat from TX. I have a venison roast in the crock pot right now that I shot the day after Thanksgiving. Just my $.02.
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Re: What prompted you to learn to process your own Big Game VS the Butcher?
« Reply #62 on: December 07, 2014, 05:08:42 PM »
The hassle of the butcher experience.  Always looking to simplify and just operate daily life easier and more efficient in general.  Deer is done in a quick couple to few hours, in the freezer, and cleaned up; elk in a short afternoon.
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