E.Shell
Ultimate Member
Yup, worked good. Thank you.It worked! Congrats on your hind and new crossbow!
I REALLY appreciate everyone's advice here too!
Thanks. Yes, hind Sika, about 80# on the hoof, looked like a mini-cow elk. Had fried butterflied backstraps last night - very good, very mild flavor.Nice Ed. Is that a hind Sika? Good eats, I hear.
Thank you.Congrats
Good looking deer and rig
Thank you.Congrats
Thank you.Congrats!
Ahh, gotcha.also, I did not notice your reply before. The big Bite #12 is a 3/4 horse grinder from LEM. I bought it for grinding and using with the 25# mixer. It is a good grinder but at 1 1/2 hp, you bought a monster for just grinding the brought home deer.
I've had mine about 20 years, maybe longer (it all runs together). When I bought it, several of us hunted together and often had two or three deer to process and I didn't want to dick around with something that was going to be straining, or something I had to use a large plate with first pass then go back and double-grind with a smaller plate.
I got everything cut & trimmed except 1 whole hindquarter and a shoulder. I was going to try to finish it all today, but my back said 'enough!'.I'm feeling your pain with home processing. I got to start working my core as age and this desk job is wearing me out when the hard work starts. I can jump in with both feet, but 3 hours later, i and saying we can finish this tomorrow. Or that is what my back is creaming.
It gets harder every time. I know I couldn't bend all day and work then want to keep on after I got home.People give me shit for not processing my own deer. They don't know or understand my day job.
Eff'm
Yeah! FM!You do what makes you happy and you're right, F'em.
^^ This ^^I process mine because I an particular about how my meat is handled and don't think a lot of other guys take care of their deer before taking it to processors. I don't want my meat, mixed with theirs and that is what they do.
Mine will be ready to grind tomorrow, but as little as these Sika's are, I might just cube it small and use it in chili, BBQ and a crock pot. It would be a breeze to grind but after that, the grinder cleanup is a P.I.A..It is a lot of work, when done right. I absolutely hate deer fat and processors don't take it all out. I nit pick that crap out. Tomorrow I am doing the grind for my buck I shot. I will spend two hours chopping and cutting the fat off the meat and 1/2 hour grinding and bagging it. A processor will spend a 1/2 hour grinding it, or less, because they pile it together. I kicked my daughter out of helping because she leaves too much fat in. Deer fat is awful, if i have not made that clear.