Backstraps get cut in half and vacuum sealed, the best roasts are kept the same way, the rest of the good meat gets ground. Shanks and scraps get canned.
Part of the burger is earmarked for sausage and pepper sticks. We'll be doing 9 deer next weekend with a neighbor couple. Late season deer will get the same treatment again before putting up the processing equipment for the year.


Beware of any old man in a profession where one usually dies young.

Calm seas don't make sailors.