do you cut your own meat or take it butcher?

[Pathfinder101]

I used to have mine butchered, but I found now that I do my own I get more meat.  I think it is because butchers that are used to working with beef and pigs are used to only taking the best steaks and the rest goes in the grinder.  I save every steak that I can.  That reminds me.... I need to go put fresh chips in the smoker... 

[Hillbilly270]

Have always butchered ourselves.....beef and wild game.  Now my father has all the equipment and makes all our pep, sausage, etc.......  works out great.  Love the fact that I know what i'm eating is what I harvested and not some podunks bloodshot/hairy meat from three years ago.

[SGM R]

I've heard too many stories about hunters thinking they got ripped off of meat or the butcher swapped my meat for something else...there is no way of telling if you got your meat back or if it was treated right....My meat My knife, my job!

[toe-jam]

I've heard too many stories about hunters thinking they got ripped off of meat or the butcher swapped my meat for something else...there is no way of telling if you got your meat back or if it was treated right....My meat My knife, my job!

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[steen]

We've had  sausage done in the past but little by little we add to the butchering process.  Put in a smoke house and butcher room and now we can do every process ourselves.  I'm with alot of others, if you're going to kill it there is no one else that will clean out all the hair from your gamelike you do yourself.  There is an added satisfaction in doing the whole process.  I get more out of packing and dragging my own animal if I can.  It's just part of a job well done.  I enjoy writing on the package whose it is.  One year I put on my husband's deer T-buck which stood for trophy buck our son joked that it stook for tough buck.  That deer was a 8-9 year old blacktail and we couldn't taste any difference from the younger bucks.  It's all in getting the meat cooled, all the hair, and fat off.  We plan on doing our own pig this month also for the first time.