I hear you guys.
The only time I ever took an animal to a butcher......I shot a nice Whitetail in late Oct, got back something we couldn't eat, that was 40 years ago.
When you do your own game, you clean it better, (super important if its trim for sausage) cut it the way you want, package it the way you want, and save $$$.
My problem is finding and retaining a quality sausage maker, in 45 years I have only had 3, now #3 is retiring, he was the best I have had.
I just found # 4, he seems pretty good and will proceed with caution lol. I put all my eggs in one basket once and got back 250 lbs of rank sausage that was horrible, still pizzed about that.
We may begin to make our own if we build the smoker we keep talking about.
