Top things to do AFTER you shot the deer

[cayugad]

We used to butcher deer (or hogs & beef) as a group. We'd all bring the deer to my friends place. He is a skilled butcher. He also has all the power table saws, hand saws, knives, etc. So we'd set up tables in the garage and the men would cut and the women wrap. It gave all of us a chance to re-live hunting stories (make up new ones if no one catches you...) and socialize, while working together to get a job done. It is amazing how fast you can do a deer with a group of guys working...

But as often happens, people's lives change, move away, and have other commitments so we do not do this as much as we used to..

 

[JesseJames]

we used to do the same thing; we had a muzzleloading club that since has broken up; but we've killed over 500 deer over the years; we would average about 40 deer a year; we would hang them in the farmers cooler till the end of the season and then we would take them to another member's farm,who had a shop set up for butchering deer and making salami's...he also had the saws,mixers,scales,grinders...we would start on thursday after the season and usually be done by saturday afternoon; butchered,devailed,ground,and wrapped, of course we had to have a few cocktails and eat some of the fresh deer to celebrate a good and safe year of hunting. and as you say,the land shrinks,the people move on and things just happen to go by the wayside; a lot of the younger generation does not want to hunt hard...and the older guys want to but can't...

 

[brushbuster]

we used to do the same thing; we had a muzzleloading club that since has broken up; but we've killed over 500 deer over the years; we would average about 40 deer a year; we would hang them in the farmers cooler till the end of the season and then we would take them to another member's farm,who had a shop set up for butchering deer and making salami's...he also had the saws,mixers,scales,grinders...we would start on thursday after the season and usually be done by saturday afternoon; butchered,devailed,ground,and wrapped, of course we had to have a few cocktails and eat some of the fresh deer to celebrate a good and safe year of hunting. and as you say,the land shrinks,the people move on and things just happen to go by the wayside; a lot of the younger generation does not want to hunt hard...and the older guys want to but can't...

your statement reminds me of the days when the family would get together on the last weekend of may and blanch corn for the year.
the kids would pick and shuck,the grown ups would do the blanchen and cut the corn off the cobb,then the kids would do the packaging .
those were the good old days :cry: