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FeaturedPermalink Reply by Charles Sample on January 3, 2016 at 21:24

Thanks John.  No, no relation.  I have been taking him my deer for three years now.  I used another processor previously.  I seem to get more meat from a comparable sized deer with this processor than with the previous one.

BTW my deer was the 500th deer brought to him so far this season.  When I picked up my meat about two weeks later he was up to 688.

Permalink Reply by John Kellogg on January 3, 2016 at 21:54

That's one generous butcher. Just curious?? What does he charge to process a deer? Did he skin it? I have never used a butcher because just like you I worry that I am not getting all my meat or even someone else's mea I'm not a butcher by any means but I have done pretty well doing my own, especially since I got a meat grinder and started making my own sausage! Its nice being able to make it just the way I like it!! I'm sure you will have a freezer full!! Keep that butcher busy Charles!!! I know it takes quite a bit of time to clean the skull before anything else is done so I would say you have the best butcher in the USA!!!

Congrats on the deer and the mount!!

FeaturedPermalink Reply by Charles Sample on January 3, 2016 at 22:48

John, if the deer is field dressed he charges $75.  It is an additional $15 if not field dressed.  I didn't field dress this one.  It was about 4:30 when I shot it.  By the time I got it out of the woods it was dark, cold, and starting to rain.  It wasn't worth $15 for me to do under those conditions.

I got my 4 wheeler, hooked my little tilt bed trailer to it, and backed it up to the deer.  I tilted the bed, grabbed his antlers and drug him into the trailer.  I then drove to my truck, backed the trailer up to the truck bed, and grabbed his antlers again and drug him into the truck.  I then headed for the processor.

My four wheeler and little trailer make it easy for me to load even a big deer in my truck by myself.  Five years ago I killed a deer and had to drag it 700 yards to my truck.  The first hundred yards was uphill through woods (how do deer know which way is opposite the direction your truck is parked when they run?).  The next 400 yards was across a muddy wheat field.  And then 200 more across grass.    I was past exhausted when I got the deer to the truck.  I had to stop every hundred yards to rest and get my breath. I then still had to get it in the truck by myself.  I said this fat boy isn't doing that again.  By the next season i had my 4 wheeler!

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