List your Favorite meat processor..

[blackhorn]

I need a new place to go get my meat processed (when and if I get a critter this year).  I am sure I am not the only one, so list your favorite place to go.  If someone from the Vancouver/Longview area could list theirs it would be appreciated!

[shedcrazy]

Del Fox, and Silvana Meats in the Stanwood area, and Jeff Tuttle in Wenatchee area. Sorry never been down to your neck of the woods
 

[Bean Counter]

Cabelas 3/4 hp meat grinder + Tila Food Saver 

[blackhorn]

Maybe next year on the grinder.

[BLKBEARKLR]

Black, What kind of processing are you wanting done? Steaks, hamburger, sausage?

I do everything myself so have no recommendations for you but it might help if people know what you are looking to get done.

Joe

[willipa]

bucher boys is the only way to go!! they are in vancover

[blackhorn]

BLKBEARKLR I am looking for the whole shebang! 

Willipa, I have been to Butcher Boys and you are right they are pretty decent.  I had two minor issues with them last season during archery, one they weren't open Sunday or Monday when I needed them and they had no drop off abilities and two they raised their prices.  I still might use them as a secondary but am looking for another. 

[jechicdr]

Do it yourself.  Made mistake of using a meat cutter once.  I'm the only one I know who will painstakingly take off every bit of gristle, fat and tendon leaving nothing but medallions of tender steak.  Now would not mind having a cooler nearby if I had to pack an elk out and wanted to go back out for a deer or something.

[DoubleJ]

Do it yourself.  cut into steaks whatever you want kept as steaks, keep the roasts as roasts, and whatever you want as hamburger and sausage, you can package those up and take just those to the butcher or just freeze them and pull them out to grind when you do get a grinder.  If I had to pay for a butcher, I'd rather only pay for what I needed him to do instead of stuff I could handle on my own.

[DoubleJ]

And don't worry about messing it up.  You really can't mess it up.  All I do is gut the animal in the field and bring home.  I then basically use the gutless method.  I think there is a pic link here and if you go to youtube, you can find where some elk guys show a good video on how to do it.  Backstraps and loins stay whole and the legs come apart nicely into roasts.  Even if you screw up a cut, throw it in the burger pile.

[BOWHUNTER45]

I know a good one but he told me not to advertise for him on here because he has all the customers he wants    I do my own except I take my summer sausage meat to him already growned ....

[ORCA_SIX]

Del Fox meats is great in Stanwood, I am sure they will get mentioned a lot.

[Huntbear]

Me, Myself and I.......

[marty]

 

[Michelle_Nelson]