Which state has the best Mule Deer?

[trularin]

Bart, that is a good cartridge.

We usually butcher steaks, burger and then sausage if we have time.

I like to have Blue Ribbon do my hunter sausage, they are amazingly good.

Do any of you do your own processing?

[DAVID GAGNARD]

Originally Posted by trularin

Bart, that is a good cartridge.

We usually butcher steaks, burger and then sausage if we have time.

I like to have Blue Ribbon do my hunter sausage, they are amazingly good.

Do any of you do your own processing?

Yes I do all my own processing.... I don't hunt deer as much as I used to anymore, but, my brother-in-law lives/eats/breathes deer hunting and I usually get a deer every year and then he gives me one.......

I have a Harbor Freight meat saw/grinder combo, actually works well.... Hind quarters go to round steaks for soup and pot roast type cooking which my wife does very well..backstrap and tenderloin are saved pretty much for grilling and the rest is ground and mixed 50/50 with boston butts....(I have an antique sauage stuffer which will hold about 10 to 12 pounds of meat at a time and with a little help from my wife and daughter, we can butcher/cut/grind/make sausage and whatever else on a long saturday morning....) Half goes into sausage and the other half is packed in 3 pound packs of ground meat for burgers and what not....

I have my own recipes for sausage and I usually add a thing or two or try new spices pretty much every batch, so no two are exactly alike......no complaints soo far!!!!!!!!

Deer is the only game my wife/daughter will eat and they love it, so nothing is wasted on a deer carcass.......They used to be happy eating ducks/geese/squirrels/quail/rabbit, but for some unkown reason, they will not even let me cook any of that in the house anymore, much less eat it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

David