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Post by duff on Dec 3, 2023 7:54:22 GMT -5
"Wet dog old cope anr flat RC cola" that made me chuckle, poor Span never shovels anything back. Try not to much on here but yeah I somehow fooled you. Ask him about the deer pictures he sent me. Brutal. Or anytime we went goose hunting Ahawkeye see he has problems stopping. Once he gets going it is like a runaway train. Only way to stop is a big nasty crash
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Post by esshup on Dec 3, 2023 11:21:20 GMT -5
At a processor in central, Wi. they have 2 hooks in the floor (concrete floor). They skin a bit of the rear legs, tie a golf ball in the skin on each one, tie the rope to each hook and use a winch to pick the deer up off the floor. The hide stays on the ground, the meat gets pulled up. If it starts to pull meat off, they use a skinning knife and one guy cuts while the other bumps the electric winch up. They can get a deer skinned in a few minutes max.
Take a rope and tie one front leg to the side of the pole barn, that will keep it from spinning so you don't have to chase it all over the pole barn to get it cut up. Look at auctions to buy a stainless steel table to cut the deer up on once you have the deer quartered. School auctions, restaurants going out of business, etc. I picked up an 8' long stainless steel table with backsplash and sink in it for $50.
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Post by boonechaser on Dec 3, 2023 13:45:23 GMT -5
My buck and granddaughters produced right at 120 lbs burger, 20 tenderlin steaks, and 5 lbs. jerkey. Had done at local locker , total cost $310. (Had cape my buck for taxi as well.) So approx. $2.75 lb., which isn't to bad.
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Post by hornzilla on Dec 3, 2023 16:42:04 GMT -5
Same here heck I would've made coffee and dropped you off 🙃 Have you met span870 ...imagine a mix between wet dog, old cope and flat rc cola with a hint of moldy corn flakes. With stories for days. Mostly about how bad 243 is for deer how walkers are inferior to Redbone but blue ticks are the best and just when you think it can't get any worse he starts with stories of band camp when he was 1st chair oboe and how none of the girls respected him....I give it 1 day and you'd move just in case he stumbles back. Your awful tough on my deer hunting buddy. Lol
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Post by duff on Dec 3, 2023 17:06:07 GMT -5
Have you met span870 ...imagine a mix between wet dog, old cope and flat rc cola with a hint of moldy corn flakes. With stories for days. Mostly about how bad 243 is for deer how walkers are inferior to Redbone but blue ticks are the best and just when you think it can't get any worse he starts with stories of band camp when he was 1st chair oboe and how none of the girls respected him....I give it 1 day and you'd move just in case he stumbles back. Your awful tough on my deer hunting buddy. Lol You are right. Flat RC Cola was uncalled for. He is classier than a velvet Elvis. It is flat Pepsi
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Post by steiny on Dec 5, 2023 8:44:05 GMT -5
One deer. 2 nights hotel stay. Cost to get drawn at atterbury. New stuff I had to have... don't want to know the cost per pound. Shot one deer. I don't hunt to save money on meat. Way cheaper to buy a cow. By choice. First deer in probably close to ten years. It's not about the savings for me Amen ! I'm sure many of us could eat prime rib and lobster cheaper if we really analyzed the cost per pound of our venison.
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Post by INhuntin on Dec 11, 2023 0:01:48 GMT -5
Processing went up $10 this year, so it's $120 to do a deer now. I had 2 does done. Some stew meat, burger, some roasts, butterflied loins, tenderloins whole, steaks. Just for curiosity I weighed the meat - all boneless. They wrap in plastic, then butcher paper. Burger is in 1# packages, steaks 2/package, Butterflies 4/package. I have 108# of meat that I put in the freezer. I figured 2# for paper and plastic, it weighed 110# total. Our processing fees at the two main guys in Posey Co are $150. I butchered one deer myself and took the other 2 in My brother paid for one deer and I paid for the other. I need to better equip dad's pole barn for this process. We can hang a deer I need to get better at skinning and keeping hair off the meat. I need a better setup for cutting. I felt like I was chasing the deer around while trying to cut. I was alone and didn't have anyone to hold the legs. Learned a little, will buy a little and hopefully get a little better next time. Skinning without getting hair everywhere is not hard at all. You just have to cut from the inside. Your first cut with a very sharp knife is the only time you cut from the outside in, the rest of the time you are cutting is from the inside out. I use one of the new Outdoor Edge hunting knives & it is like using a zipper on deer.
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