Originally Posted by
Beau Cassidy
I hunt with 6 other guys, one of who put himself thru college working as a butcher. About once or twice a week during deer season we get together at an old school where we have a processing station setup. We can bone and completely process 5 deer in about 3 hours with 3 of us deboning, 1 running the grinder, and 1 running the vaccum packer. We have found the Cabelas Commercial vaccum packer and 1 1/2 HP grinder to be the cats meow. We also have a large industrial cuber that looks prehistoric but does a great job.
We mix our grind about 2 lbs of bacon to 10 lbs of deer meat. Some guys put ham or beef in theirs. When everything is ground and packaged none of us get in a fight over who's meat belongs to who. It is all nice and clean. We share. If somebody doesn't get a deer then we all share with them. We also give a lot away to family.
We cook lunch in the barn during the season. Our favorite dish is putting some cubed steak in a crockpot full of cream of mushroom soup early before going to the stand. It is ready by lunch. Talk about good! We have a lot of visitors for lunch when we cook that dish.