It’s a lot of work especially for someone like me who has only done it twice now this season for the first time ever it’s not perfect but like anything else you have to do things a few times to get good at it. Not even the best butchers in the world started out that good … You may waste or loose a little meat but as time goes on you’ll get better and better and it’s very rewarding ! Nice video !
Great video, with regulations shutting down more and more little butcher shops that used to do deer every fall. It has become more important for hunters to learn the skills of the home butcher. Thanks for sharing.
Good luck! Don't get discouraged if it doesn't turn out the way you imagined it would. Each one you do gets better and better. In the end, it's all meat. But you'll impress people more when you can tell them you remove the eye-of-round with only your thumbs! At least, I like to think that people are impressed when I say that... 🤔
@ I’m pretty happy how things turned out. Took me all day with the help of my neighbor. We lost a bunch of meat on one due to a nasty leg injury it had, but got my freezer full none the less
You're right to use those "Out Of Air" freezer bags. They're cheap and far superior to Food Saver brand, IMO. I've been using them for over 8 years and I hand wash and reuse them, without any unpleasant results. I used to make the bags as small as I could, and yet still contain my food, thinking that I was saving money, but it turns out that making the bags several inches longer (as many as 4 inches) than you need at the moment, you can reuse them many times for increasingly smaller items. It all has to do with the amount of waste that takes place in your particular vacuum sealer. Longer is better, trust me. You have to try it to get it. I notice that you were using a Work Sharp field sharpener. Those things are great. I have one that I keep in the kitchen and one that stays in the garage. You can get a pocket knife shaving sharp with one. I don't hunt deer myself, but I have many friends that do and they seem to end up with lots of "deer sausage", "deer burger" and "summer sausage" and no roasts, steaks or stew meat. I don't get it. I buy beef and pork primals and butcher them myself to save money (using a cheap Old Hickory butcher knife and a large Rapala fish filleting knife) so I know where the steaks and chops and the like are on a dead animals, so why do they get it all ground up and pay some guy to do it? It's nuts! Especially when you consider that many times they aren't even having their own specific deer's meat returned to them. It's a weight-in-kind sort of a deal. If you study a fillet knife closely, you'll see that it is almost identical to a boning knife in blade shape and flex and, because the primals on a deer are smaller than a cow's or pig's, it makes a good knife for removing the silver skin, just as you said. Sounds like you're doin' it how I'd do it. Enjoyed the video.
Last one i did was a road kill... little buck...they say you can't cure it in the fridge but it worked fine... I've got a weapons ban so the only weapon ive got left is sarcasm...10 pointer off the back deck...i think on some level they can tell if yer actually a threat...👍🍻
Great video Jer!
Great work. Hope to do my next one my self.That meal looked so good!
Nate
It’s a lot of work especially for someone like me who has only done it twice now this season for the first time ever it’s not perfect but like anything else you have to do things a few times to get good at it. Not even the best butchers in the world started out that good …
You may waste or loose a little meat but as time goes on you’ll get better and better and it’s very rewarding ! Nice video !
Great video, with regulations shutting down more and more little butcher shops that used to do deer every fall. It has become more important for hunters to learn the skills of the home butcher. Thanks for sharing.
Haha just got two deer back to back the last two days and I’m doing this all myself for the first time. Great find on my feed, thanks!
Good luck! Don't get discouraged if it doesn't turn out the way you imagined it would. Each one you do gets better and better. In the end, it's all meat. But you'll impress people more when you can tell them you remove the eye-of-round with only your thumbs!
At least, I like to think that people are impressed when I say that... 🤔
@ I’m pretty happy how things turned out. Took me all day with the help of my neighbor. We lost a bunch of meat on one due to a nasty leg injury it had, but got my freezer full none the less
Of course, Stevie comes over and everything is chaos!!! Lol! Love y'all 😊
Super Awesomenesssss and Big Thanks... But hahahaha Avocado peanut brownies? That sounds Great and have never heard of that before...Hahahahaha
Nicely done.
I’ve butchered my own deer for years. But i’ve never done it on my dining room table!! 😂
Try it! Very convenient!
Ive butchered many. 👍👋🎣
You're right to use those "Out Of Air" freezer bags. They're cheap and far superior to Food Saver brand, IMO. I've been using them for over 8 years and I hand wash and reuse them, without any unpleasant results. I used to make the bags as small as I could, and yet still contain my food, thinking that I was saving money, but it turns out that making the bags several inches longer (as many as 4 inches) than you need at the moment, you can reuse them many times for increasingly smaller items. It all has to do with the amount of waste that takes place in your particular vacuum sealer. Longer is better, trust me. You have to try it to get it.
I notice that you were using a Work Sharp field sharpener. Those things are great. I have one that I keep in the kitchen and one that stays in the garage. You can get a pocket knife shaving sharp with one.
I don't hunt deer myself, but I have many friends that do and they seem to end up with lots of "deer sausage", "deer burger" and "summer sausage" and no roasts, steaks or stew meat. I don't get it. I buy beef and pork primals and butcher them myself to save money (using a cheap Old Hickory butcher knife and a large Rapala fish filleting knife) so I know where the steaks and chops and the like are on a dead animals, so why do they get it all ground up and pay some guy to do it? It's nuts! Especially when you consider that many times they aren't even having their own specific deer's meat returned to them. It's a weight-in-kind sort of a deal.
If you study a fillet knife closely, you'll see that it is almost identical to a boning knife in blade shape and flex and, because the primals on a deer are smaller than a cow's or pig's, it makes a good knife for removing the silver skin, just as you said.
Sounds like you're doin' it how I'd do it. Enjoyed the video.
Sounds like you and I are on the same page!
Is there a store that sells the Out Of Air bags or do you buy them on Amazon? Do you think they are better than the Mainstays ones from Walmart?
I get them from Amazon. I've never tried any from Walmart so I can't compare them.
Last one i did was a road kill... little buck...they say you can't cure it in the fridge but it worked fine... I've got a weapons ban so the only weapon ive got left is sarcasm...10 pointer off the back deck...i think on some level they can tell if yer actually a threat...👍🍻
But can that sarcasm cut sharper than a knife???
@OneWildcrafter you'd have to ask someone who's received it... it's not deadly force...for that there's hyperbole...and irony...🍻
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I can’t take any man seriously if he’s wearing a pony tail. Sorry
It's a braid!