Where are the all of the game butchers at in Canada?

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Over the years someone occasionally ask for advice on where to find a quality meat cutter. It is to bad that none of them are site sponsors. So lets have it from coast to coast. Where are the game butchers through out Canada?

If possible, give us the City, contact info and website if they have one? As for myself, I'm looking for names in Ontario. Mainly slightly beyond the GTA from Peterborough to Guelph. But what about those other areas?

For those also looking, maybe post the area you are interested in, and someone will reply with a quote with your answer.

Happy safe hunting!
 
This fellow is great. Perth county is little farther than youre looking for but good nonetheless

CONTACT INFO:

Contact Name: John and Julie Koch
Telephone: 519-656-2497
Fax:#
Email:#
Website:

ADDRESS:


4859 Road 104#
RR1#
Gadshill, Ontario, Canada, N0K 1J0
Perth
 
FiringSquad said:
This fellow is great. Perth county is little farther than youre looking for but good nonetheless

CONTACT INFO:

Contact Name: John and Julie Koch
Telephone: 519-656-2497
Fax:#
Email:#
Website:

ADDRESS:


4859 Road 104#
RR1#
Gadshill, Ontario, Canada, N0K 1J0
Perth
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A little far for me, but hopefully helpful for someone else can use. Who knows where I 'll end up hunting in the years to come. I may find this very useful too. Thanks for posting.
 
There are quite a few butchers that'll cut up wild game, but most run things through a band saw and wrap it up.
I've always cut up my own meat. I'm not saying I'm an expert by any means, but it's a simple process and if you take your time, the end result when you eat it is far better than 99% of that done by a common butcher.

It probably boils down to people not willing to pay for the extra time it takes to have wild game cut up properly.
 
In my experience in Western Canada, every small town butcher does game. And in the city you will have a tough time finding one that will touch it.
 
I think we're down three locally.
Well, somewhat locally.
Too bad they don't offer a class/course for doing wild game cutting.
The one they do offer is for an apprenticeship for becoming a butcher.
 
get yourself a couple of good boning knives and look for a cheap band saw & grinder on kijiji and do it yourself.
We used to pay for it but the costs kept going up till they were crazy high so we do it ourselves and paid for the saw the first year.

Most paper supply places will sell you butcher paper.
Get a old table, maybe a tarp for the floor and have at it.
It wont take long and you will be good at it
 
Doing it yourself is the way to go. Couple of saw horses and a piece of plywood in the back yard, a small grinder, and a good knife and you are set. Don't use a saw on wild meat as the bone dust is horrid. Cut it up boneless. Get a few friends together and have a cook out and make it a social event. That's one of the best ways to celebrate the end of a hunting trip.
 
We got old and we got tired of some people accusing us of stealing meat I have seen some carcass that we would not even grind for dog food. Hair hide several bullet holes ground in gravel some people should take a course on how to look after your animal after you have shot it.If people expect someone to cut and wrap wild game bring it in clean to start with. I worked a half a day for a guy up north that would not let you clean anything off the carcass the jellied meat where the bullet hit well you got that wrapped up I can imagine how the wife reacted when she saw that. I lasted a half day I could not do that. When I cut up game I told the husband to get his wife out to where I was cutting and we discussed what she cooked and what cuts that she wanted it's a lot of work when done right and it is worth it if it is looked after properly in the bush.
 
There was a butcher in Norwood, east of Peterborough that did game. I have been told by butchers that they wont do game now because of the cleanup required to satisfy food safety inspectors. Just saying.


Michigan State University used to have an excellent "how to" for butchering deer .. (their pdf booklet on field dressing is still available here http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/bringing_home_the_wild_game )


This is good: http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/forum/showthread.php?t=245289

(although I wouldn't do it in the house -- lots of hair!)
 
I found a series of videos on YouTube on a channel called field2feast. It covered the hunt right through a finished meal, had the series split up into relevant sections. One was about butchering your own meat. Plan to give it a go if I get a deer in December.
 
It is regulations and the cost of meeting them for safety ......anyway it is not a hard task cutting up a deer or even moose yourself with a knife..plastic wrap..and brown wrapping paper..If you can tie your shoes you can cut up a deer ...practice makes perfect....
 
I was a commercial meat cutter for 24yrs. Now only do it for friends and guys I hunt with.

I bone out all the game I do. Totally boneless when I'm done with it.
 
Boneless is the way to go! Pick a package out of the freezer, and know that what it weighs, is essentially what you have to put on the plate.

I learned to do it of necessity, as the CWD scare in the AB/SK border areas had a bunch of new regs about disposal of game bones, as well as separating the game from the domestic meat and a bunch of other stuff. Made it a PITA to find a guy that would do it, so learned and got on with it.

A decent hand crank grinder will work really well if you don't need to do 3 or 4 deer at a time. A actual commercial grinder, bought cheap, is pretty close to the home processor's Holy Grail, but even the cheap grinders will do a bunch of work. Wear ear plugs!

Lots of grocery stores sell butcher paper, I use a lot of heavy duty ziplock freezer bags too. If you are stuck in the sticks and need, check out Halford's Mail Order in Edmonton. Good catalog to have!

Cheers
Trev
 
kamlooky said:
Hayya Trev, how many local meat cutters are still in Lillyland?
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None, I think. Dunno, never went looking since I learned to do this myself. But I only do mine for me.

For domestic stuff, been using a cutter at Cherry Creek, in past years, and my brother uses a outfit in Mission.

Cheers
Trev
 
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