2010 Deer Camp and Larger Mammal Season

[D Chapman]

Do any of yall take your deer to a processor? What do they charge? Or do you just cut out the backstrap and whatever else you might want?

I do them myself. The local processors charge ~$70.00. I'm not a fan of deer steak and I really do not care for the burger, either. I like the tenderloin, and from time-to-time I'll do a whole bone-in ham on the grill with a dry rub. But mostly, I cut the tenderloins out, and just carve the rest of the meat off the bone with the deer hanging. Then I either make jerky, or have bologna made. Sometimes I'll grind a little into burger and add a little fatback and spices to make sausage. But I never go to the processor anymore.

 

[leeawalden]

Good deal, this guy charged me a flat 60. I was surprised as I've heard some places around nashville charge up to $150. I got breakfast sausage, steaks, and the backstrap. I usually take the sausage or tenderloin out duck hunting for breakfast/lunch in the blind. If I do another I'm going to do some jerky, I don't have a dehydrator but I guess I could do it in the oven all night.

 

[D Chapman]

Just buy a dehydrator. They're cheap. You don't need anything fancy.

 

[leeawalden]

I need to get one...suggestions?

 

[brianhoberg]

dan you nailed any with that ammo I sent ya?

 

[D Chapman]

dan you nailed any with that ammo I sent ya?

I shot a doe with it. 120-yards. It was a great shot, but she managed to run about 80-yards before falling over. I don't see how as it shattered her right front leg and you could stick 3-fingers inside the exit wound.

I need to get to a range with that ammo, though. Shooting off a bi-pod in the prone position on the ground, in a cornfield, at 300-yards I was shooting an 8" group. That's horrible. It's good enough to go hunting, but I was not real happy. I need to go shoot in some better conditions to see what's going on.

 

[brianhoberg]

I shot a doe with it. 120-yards. It was a great shot, but she managed to run about 80-yards before falling over. I don't see how as it shattered her right front leg and you could stick 3-fingers inside the exit wound.

I need to get to a range with that ammo, though. Shooting off a bi-pod in the prone position on the ground, in a cornfield, at 300-yards I was shooting an 8" group. That's horrible. It's good enough to go hunting, but I was not real happy. I need to go shoot in some better conditions to see what's going on.

yeah, get to a range and see what it's grouping. you should be alot tighter than that.

 

[roverMc]

I got a six point a couple of weeks ago. He was around 170lb.

 

[jeepfiend]

Grind that deer with some bacon trimmings! It will make a patty that actually sticks together and the venison taste is all but eliminated. My wife will even eat a venison burger ground with bacon trimmings. It even makes the sagebrush fed Idaho muleys taste pretty good.