Taking my deer to a processor is a blessing!!! No way I would have time to mess with that stuff. I will gut my own. Especially if a morning kill but if I shoot one in the afternoon, I usually let them screw with it. So I drop off a gutted deer and they process it all and it cost me maybe $125? Maybe $150? And for me to skin it and process the meat and to mix it with pork fat or beef fat which means I had to go to the store for that? The whole process would probably take me 6-8 hours minimum. Especially when you consider that I would be having to shrink wrap it too??? That $120 is like $20 per hour for me to do it myself??? Screw that! My time is worth WAY more than $20 per hour! Now if I enjoyed doing it, that is something completely different!! Sort of like I enjoy loading my own ammo. Am I saving money loading my own? Oh hell no!!!! But I do enjoy it and I like controlling the end product. Much like those who process their own deer. I assume? Right??

Hunting brings out the worst in people.