How much do you pay to butcher your deer?

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Hi all,

Just wanted to get an idea how much everyone pays to butcher their Deer...

My buddy brought in his big buck last week to a local butcher...

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$130 to Butcher it .... $250 to make half of it into Saugage and Pepperettes... Total $380 for one Deer !!!!! It weighed 180lbs after head/legs/hide removed...

If he just wanted steaks and ground / roasts it would be $130....

Seems like ALOT to me... We might invest in a Grinder for next year :D
 
I usually pay .60 cents a lb, but i've taken to butchering my own for anything smaller than bear. I might take a big deer in.

Sausage or specialty meats vary widely, both in cost and quality. Generally you get what you pay for, so i don't mind spending a few extra bucks on quality.
 
$60 to cut a deer into basic cuts.......$2.5/lb plus pork for sausages, $3/lb for jerky......

I now cut my own deer and will be making my own sausages.

That price is very high just to cut a deer your buddy should have spent that cash on a good knife and a grinder.
 
Costs me $30.00 for good vac pak bags. I do it myself. I will send off some for sausage at about $2.50/lb. Say maybe 50lbs/year off of several deer or moose. So about $155 to $200 per season for a few hundred pounds of meat.
 
67$ for basic butcher. That's it. I don't get sausage or pepperettes, just roasts and ground.
Next year planning on doing it myself.
 
My doe was only 93 pounds after everything was removed, and I had to pay $330 to have it butchered :/ That was with a decent amount of vacuum sealed sausages though
 
Buy a grinder for $300 to $400 and save enough to pay for it in a few years. The 1 hsp from cabela's works like a charm and has full sausage stuffing attachments. Plus if you do your own you know what is going into your freezer!! Or better yet get a few hunters together and chip in to buy the grinder. There lots of good sausage recipe's and not hard to do.
 
My deer usually cost about $250 from the butchers I have used. I get some jerky and sausage made, and also a cut / wrap job for some steaks and burger. Depends on the ratio of each, with jerky being the most expensive to make.
 
cityhunter said:
Hi all,

Just wanted to get an idea how much everyone pays to butcher their Deer...

My buddy brought in his big buck last week to a local butcher...

Listen to this :

$130 to Butcher it .... $250 to make half of it into Saugage and Pepperettes... Total $380 for one Deer !!!!! It weighed 180lbs after head/legs/hide removed...

If he just wanted steaks and ground / roasts it would be $130....

Seems like ALOT to me... We might invest in a Grinder for next year :D
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That sounds about right for what you got. Good sausage and pepperettes are not easy to make, they take time, and a good recipe. Think about things like, how clean is the shop, is the meat flash frozen, how soon did you get it back. Some times it just doesn't pay to get a cheap backyard butcher job done. I did that one year, I think I payed 25 cents/lbs and it was ####, more fur through the meat the anything.
 
Holy smokes! Some of you guys are paying a LOT more than we do locally! I have mine cut up by one of 2 local cutters that I know and there are a few others around here I have never dealt with yet. I pay $25.00 to have a deer hung for several days in the cooler and cut up at one guys place or $35.00 cut and wrapped at another. Having burger ground is extra. I never asked the cost on that as we have our own grinder and do that ourselves.
Al
 
You guys are nuts. Anyone who would pay $130 or more to butcher a deer should be buying their own equipment, cause apparently its a goldmine.

My butcher charges $45 to cut and wrap a deer. Doesn't matter if its 50 lbs or 250lbs, same price. Sausages are $1.50 /lb, pepperettes are $3.50/lb.

I don't even pay $330 to butcher a whole beef...:runaway:

Even my moose was only $0.50lb to butcher, and that was de-boned and vac-packed.
 
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after high expensis and getting ripped off on meat we have been doing it ourselves,most butchers are great the last one we ran into 3 big bucks skined and delivered 2 milk crates of meat that was all hamburger and stew back
 
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