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FAT!!! You can eat elk and deer all year without having fat, hormones, and other nasty man made crap added to your tasty pure wholesome meat. Skip it.
If you must have it for your burgers add olive oil or some Italian dressing.

I used to add 10% beef fat, now I add 15%.

We went to pork meat with fat on it because it gives a little pork flavor to the meat, and we like that. In a few years we may not, and will do it another way...such is the way of the home butcher...whatever suits his/her fancy.
I've been told by butchers that pork fat/meat turns rancid faster in the freezer than beef, but I've never noticed any change in ours after more than a year.