do you cut your own meat or take it butcher?

[carpsniperg2]

after just finishing cutting up the 5Th animal i have done this year, boy am i tired. i need to start having some cutting party's i guess. i have done it since i was 9 with my dad and for the last 5 years by my self. Sometimes i can get someone like my wife to help grind and wrap, but today shes at work. i am just wondering what you guys all do i know between us there is always allot of meat to have processed so fire away. I do my own + family's deer,elk,bear,cougar, anything wild game and process myself. but our beef we take in because i don't have the saws or the big grinders. lets here it guys and gals.

[ribka]

Process myself. Usually help the neighbors with their elk and deer too.Really enjoy butchering my own animals

[gasman]

It gets spendy at the butcher when you add the jerkey and sausage that you want made. Save so much money doing it myself and i get what i want and i know what ia m getting.

[carpsniperg2]

you said it gasman

[countryboy]

I think the processing is part of the experience. I enjoy every step of the hunt. Plus I'm overly picky about how it is cared for, trimmed and wrapped. I'm spoiled though... I get to use my inlaws meat shop. They processed 150+ elk per year until they got so busy they didn't have time to hunt themselves and closed the doors. Now it's just for family use. Sure makes the job alot nicer when you have all the proper equipment and VERY experienced teachers.

[Emptyhanded]

The butcher cuts and usually processes mine. I usually take mine to Egger's meats in the Spokane Valley. they do a great job.

[Big10gauge]

It's well worth the cost of acquiring your own equipment to be able to process your animals The plus side is you know what the end product really is.

[turkey buster]

It gets spendy at the butcher when you add the jerkey and sausage that you want made. Save so much money doing it myself and i get what i want and i know what ia m getting.

  I like to know that what is in my freezer is what I killed

[Huntbear]

cut it up, process it, even have my own commercial hamburger/sausage grinder.  Only time I take meat to a butcher is to have pepperoni sticks made

[KillerMiller]

cut it up, process it, even have my own commercial hamburger/sausage grinder.  Only time I take meat to a butcher is to have pepperoni sticks made

[JPhelps]

We have our own meat shop with a walk in cooler.  Also, when the local butcher went out of business we picked up all of his equipment (old but good).  Butcher beef and game.  Stuff our own kilbosa and pepperoni.  From the woods to the table and we are the only ones that ever touch it.

[wolfbait]

It's well worth the cost of acquiring your own equipment to be able to process your animals The plus side is you know what the end product really is.

A sharp knife, and if you want hamburger a $70.00 meat grinder n yer in business, and on the plus side, you know that it is your meat

[GoldTip]

Cut and process all of my own meat.  Always have, started helping my Dad when I was probably 8 years old.  Never really seen any reason to have someone else do it for me.

[NRA4LIFE]

Do all of the butchering, grinding and wrapping myself.  I also make all my own jerky, salami, summer suasage, etc.  I took trimmings in for pepperoni the last few years as I have been pinched for time.  I really love doing it myself.  I could see meat cutting as a second career some day I like it that much.

[Bowbender]

Have been cuuting our own for 40 years. Never regretted it a bit. Just part of the hunt for us. And I know what I'm unwrapping when it comes time to cook.