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Something else about the processors is that I got a feeling that more and more hunters take their deer to processors these days than what used to…… Hunting has become a higher end hobby for folks who have the money to pay someone else to process it for them……..There’s been 3000 does killed so far between those 4 counties, not even counting bucks……That’ll fill up some processors if everyone is trying to get them processed…….The 130 that came in opening day works out to 3% of the total that have been game checked in those 4 counties……I’m just saying that I wouldn’t be putting a whole lot of stock into whether the processor is having to shut down because he got 100 or 200 deer in……There’s obviously more people wanting to process deer than the processors have capacity for……..


Just out of curiosity........Have there been any processors shut down in that area in the last few years??.....Reason I ask is because that's something else to consider when looking at an increase in business for the other processors in the area......There's also the quality of service to consider.....Is your processor seeing an increase in business because they do better work than the others??......These are all just reasons why I'd be real careful about judging changes in the actual deer herd by looking at the amount of business being done by any given processor....Give me a minute and I can probably think of a few more....