Venison Prices
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There are other dealers..
Thank you everyone for you contributions. Much appreciated!
My thoughts also
Not where I am Griff , price is pish and turned to selling them with the skin on and giving the buyer name of a butcher , I’m quite happy giving the roe to the dog . Scottish wild venison and all this pish I listen to about promoting it , pish , but I’m quite happy giving out this negativity . The only thing I promote is the price I get and the price in the supermarkets and even butcher shops . The other thing I found out was that the guy who drove for highland game was getting 10p p/k for picking up as a bonus so the more he picked up the more he made . Good for him
maybe that’s where the 12p p/k fuel levy charge came from. No drama here just the truth .HonestJohn
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What foks me off is seeing it in the local butcher at £60/kg and little old ladies paying through the nose to treat her husband. We need to starve the market to drive up the price I think
Sol
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Profit needs to be there for a large scale producer though, no ones going to buy say a roe carcass for £40 in todays day and age and sell it for £80, financially It makes no sense.
Too even break even In equipment cleaning, and labor, and eventual disposal of bones you need to charge upwards of £150-200
I dont find that unfair game dealers charge silly prices, have the facilities, stations, and paperwork to back them, I understand its much harder up here in Scotland but if your in england there's not much stopping you producing your own meat If you want too and "making" that profit (in return... spending less time stalking!)
Super markets again are the third, maybe even fourth step in that process, the price increases (unfortuanaly) at least In my super market though I've seen a lot more advertisement of non premium products (e.g grill steaks) for 3 quid for two, that's actually not terrible at all.
Too even break even In equipment cleaning, and labor, and eventual disposal of bones you need to charge upwards of £150-200
I dont find that unfair game dealers charge silly prices, have the facilities, stations, and paperwork to back them, I understand its much harder up here in Scotland but if your in england there's not much stopping you producing your own meat If you want too and "making" that profit (in return... spending less time stalking!)
Super markets again are the third, maybe even fourth step in that process, the price increases (unfortuanaly) at least In my super market though I've seen a lot more advertisement of non premium products (e.g grill steaks) for 3 quid for two, that's actually not terrible at all.
I’ve mentioned how hard it was getting to move deer on for a price worth doing to be met with…
you can guess the answers you get
“Someone else will”
“Just leave the Carcasses”
Not that I’m defending highland game but to add balance ….
A close pal went for a few interviews with HG to be his “damage control” rep and to speak to estate’s about non toxic and such, the owner of HG is well aware his rep isn’t the best to say the least.
So, my pal had some tours etc of the plant…
He got his eyes opened with the amount of plain bad shooting or badly shot carcasses that were submitted to HG.
He said he actually couldn’t believe the amount and it went some way to see why the price started low and gets lower.
Big sporting estates were the culprit, you can do the guess work yourself ,nervous guests etc etc
Then contractors pinning (I’m not deriding that) needs must.
The shooters that did the best out of it in relative terms were the guys with roe permissions and had time to shoot and clean the animals well.
My pal didn’t take the job in HG , he decided it would be too much of a mammoth task in the end and almost constant arguing, so he took up a job in Gaza , much less stress than arguing with estates.
A close pal went for a few interviews with HG to be his “damage control” rep and to speak to estate’s about non toxic and such, the owner of HG is well aware his rep isn’t the best to say the least.
So, my pal had some tours etc of the plant…
He got his eyes opened with the amount of plain bad shooting or badly shot carcasses that were submitted to HG.
He said he actually couldn’t believe the amount and it went some way to see why the price started low and gets lower.
Big sporting estates were the culprit, you can do the guess work yourself ,nervous guests etc etc
Then contractors pinning (I’m not deriding that) needs must.
The shooters that did the best out of it in relative terms were the guys with roe permissions and had time to shoot and clean the animals well.
My pal didn’t take the job in HG , he decided it would be too much of a mammoth task in the end and almost constant arguing, so he took up a job in Gaza , much less stress than arguing with estates.
Some game dealers do individual prices with people that shoot with copper and consistently provide clean well presented carcasses
£2.20kg is the best I know of
That would be an acceptable price.
People would pay attention to bullet placement and being clean with the gralloch.
They would also shoot more.
nun_hunter
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The post I put up shows prices and reductions for damage up front that my local dealer pays.
Sol
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Bad shooting also comes with rushed shots, especially If people are shooting for profit/numbers (not a bad thing) If they have a herd of hinds in a drivable crop field, there going to shoot as many as they reasonably can.
Shooting 10 reds on a nice green winter field, beats pulling one of clearfell.
Depending on how bad it is, that one hind on clear fell might take as much time lardering the 10!
Shooting 10 reds on a nice green winter field, beats pulling one of clearfell.
Depending on how bad it is, that one hind on clear fell might take as much time lardering the 10!
devon deer stalker
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Not quite correct, £1.25kg for stags/bucksMC Kelly, £1.20 for reds.
£1.50 for hinds/does
Whatever happened to the BQVS that was pushed so hard, you remember Dave Hoooton advising us to join, and if things weren't bad enough to charge us for joining, ridiculous,so far divorced from the issue, and yet comes up with that load of tosh!
They should be paying us!
Polar Lynx
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For reference only. Prices in Sweden: boar £ 2,1, all deer £ 3,1, moose £ 5.1
paulbshooting
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Its unlikely to change so we need to find a way to process ourselves or collaborate with local others, or suck it up.
Norfolk Deer Search
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