Process Your Own Deer Part 1—Quartering

[Talyn]

It’s a job many of us pass off to a commercial processor on the drive home from deer camp without a thought—the ancient task of transforming a whole animal into a winter’s worth of meat.

Process Your Own Deer Part 1—Quartering

The same methods will work with other big game ungulates.

 

[papa]

Every ounce of Deer meat that went into my freezer was because of me. I never took my deer , or any other game , to a processor.

 

[Bassbob]

Same here.

 

[adam sr]

Good article. I did work at a processor that a friend had for 15 years or so. I did take my buck to one this year just to have jerky and slim jims made. He make really good jerky. The only thing I would do different than the article is cut some of the fat off the meat first along the spine and some off the back legs and use a meat saw to cut the rump roast at the end of the spine near the back legs.

 

[adam sr]

I have done this in Colorado to get elk and mule deer out of the woods.