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Got my elk back from butcher...somethings fishy

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Hunterman:
3 months to get an elk butchered?  :yike:  Why on earth didn't you go get that elk out after 3 weeks?  After 3 months in the butcher (unless it was frozen) that elk spoiled, and you probably got some ones rutted up deer.  Just a heads up,, when I have a beef butchered it only takes about 3 weeks total for dang near 3 times the size.

I would suggest to smell the meat, it will probably all stink.

Hunterman(Tony)

Kuduman:

--- Quote from: buckhorn2 on January 20, 2015, 09:47:03 AM ---We took an elk to the butchers and while we were hanging it his wife walks in and asked him what he wanted for dinner and he went over to an elk he was working on and cut out a piece of backstrap and gave it to her for his dinner you might have found the same butcher.

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Your Kidding  :yike:

Band:
It's pretty obvious to me why it took 3 months.  When they OP called about getting his meat about the same time it should have been finished the processor couldn't find it, most likely because he runs a poor, disorganized business and managed to give it to someone else (or pilfer some of it himself).  Then he spent a long time pilfering what he thought he could from other customers to give the OP something, hoping it would be enough not to raise concerns about the amount and quality of the meat he ended up with.

No question about it, this meat processor needs to be called out and raked over the coals! :bash:

To the OP, one of the lessons I hope you learned is to get an estimated completion date and be a squeaky wheel when that date has passed.  If you're the one customer who isn't a squeaky wheel, you'll be the most likely to be screwed by the processor's poor business management.  Sorry it happened to you.

I know you're calling him today and I'll bet good money you'll get nothing but excuses and/or obfuscation.

bear hunter:
 :dunno: This is my bull I shot in Barber springs this year. I'm pretty sure one of the front shoulders weighed 76 pounds in camp, but I can't remember if it was one or both shoulders. Hell I weigh 375lbs. Hmmmmm  I just dropped my meat off right before Xmas because it was stuck in the freezer. The 2 front shoulders took up a 150 quirt cooler and the rear quarters took up my buddy's back in the land rover. The butcher couldn't weigh me in that night because the rears were frozen like a block. but the fronts he hung. He said he would weigh it after it thawed out. I called and he said 250 lbs for the quarters and other meats. Like backstraps, tenderloins and scrapes. I might of lost some meat to SPOIL as it thawed out. but I don't know I just have to trust him because I wasn't there to watch him weigh it. Next time I will weigh all quarters before I leave the butcher shop. I weighed the meat I got back from them it was around 200lbs. I just don't know but my be I am wrong, but last year I shot a desert mule deer and the 4 quarters weight 169 lbs so This doesn't make much since to me. The bull as you can see is bigger that my mule deer. Hmmmmm. But they did a very good job with my meat and the breakfast sausage is great. I wish I had more made. 

Bean Counter:

--- Quote from: Band on January 20, 2015, 10:39:43 AM ---No question about it, this meat processor needs to be called out and raked over the coals! :bash:

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There IS a question about it, Band. Witch hunts don't flatter our reputation as a forum community.  :twocents:

There are two sides to most stories and the butcher deserves his day in "court" if we are going to run yet another a kangaroo court. Namely, its entirely possible that the severe meat shortage is explained by sloppy field care. IDK whether that's the case but having killed a few critters in my day I can see how a few sloppy habits can cause significant spoilage or waste.

Its entirely to unfair to a butcher to drag him over the coals if he was handed 100 pounds of boned out meat and 50% of it was filthy and expect that 100 pounds be delivered. I sure wouldn't go into business to put up with that.

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