What to do with the carcasses?

For processing maybe one or two deer a year, on a budget, would people recommend a cheap electric mincer or a better quality hand mincer?
 
For processing maybe one or two deer a year, on a budget, would people recommend a cheap electric mincer or a better quality hand mincer?
A friend of mine who just does a couple of deer per year for home consumption recently bought a pretty good quality (Trespade) hand mincer, and he's absolutely thrilled with it.
I have to say it is quite impressive.
I would have no hesitation recommending it over a cheap electric mincer. I burnt out several of those before eventually investing in something a bit more substantial.
 
For processing maybe one or two deer a year, on a budget, would people recommend a cheap electric mincer or a better quality hand mincer?
Ive got a cheap amazon "heavy duty" one that I've had for years and to be fair, it does the job. I replaced it with an indentical one recently because i misplaced a couple of bits it came with and Its probably done 15 year in the last few months alone. I have preference to the manual sausage stuffed however instead of the attachment on it.
 
I process every type of deer at home, munti, roe, fallow and reds, I am suprised to see people say reds are difficult, mine are southern reds, maybee more fat, but find them as easy as any other, now muntis are another level for skinning....
I picked up a buffalo mincer needing love for £130, best thing I bought for meat processing, yom, yom, yom, ohh is that it all done....
 
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I process every type of deer at home, munti, roe, fallow and reds, I am suprised to see people say reds are difficult, mine are southern reds, maybee more fat, but find them as easy as any other, now muntis are another level for skinning....
I picked up a buffalo mincer needing love for £130, best thing I bought for meat processing, yom, yom, yom, ohh is that it all done....
Back in the day i remember thinking WTF. After starting to chop up a two year old Red spiker. Took me all day with limited knowledge. No saw one knife and no steel.
Used an house brick to sharpen the knife,lol.
Lost count of how many Reds that ive chopped up over the years.
Kind of refined my butchering skills to some degree. But still at a amateurish level compared to some.
These days the only ones that I take a knife to are ones that are in there first year..
If you ever drop on the chance to butcher a large Red. Do it just for the experience.
You'll cope with anything after that.20240310_144031.webp
 
Back in the day i remember thinking WTF. After starting to chop up a two year old Red spiker. Took me all day with limited knowledge. No saw one knife and no steel.
Used an house brick to sharpen the knife,lol.
Lost count of how many Reds that ive chopped up over the years.
Kind of refined my butchering skills to some degree. But still at a amateurish level compared to some.
These days the only ones that I take a knife to are ones that are in there first year..
If you ever drop on the chance to butcher a large Red. Do it just for the experience.
You'll cope with anything after that.View attachment 454909
Bit rrrrrufff that
 
Ref the Mincer for use on Reds.. we have a Kenwood Chef and their all metal mincer attachment.. Its handled anything we can stuff into it.. does a good job. One point with the Kenwoods though, they can come in different motor power ratings.. Ours is one of the larger power ratings, having said that we only use the slower speeds, you dont need high speed.
 
Vaguely on topic I just read an interesting article from The Atlantic Archive version Here

You think we have it bad with game dealers offering a pittance, and complexity over game and game meat rules* and who can sell what but seems like selling wild venison you harvest is pretty much impossible in the states.

Like us, they import kiwi venison by the ton for high end restaurants while they have a deer problem at home



* Before you start, I know the game meat rules are fairly straightforward in England but seems to provide a fairly steady source of queries here so it's obviously not that clear
 
* Before you start, I know the game meat rules are fairly straightforward in England but seems to provide a fairly steady source of queries here so it's obviously not that clear
Most of the queries are simply because people don't bother to read the FSA document properly.
The rules are so straightforward and relaxed as to be almost non existent, compared to the production and sale of meat from farmed livestock.

I would agree that it appears that the States is really not where you'd want to be if you are a keen deer hunter.
 
Vaguely on topic I just read an interesting article from The Atlantic Archive version Here

You think we have it bad with game dealers offering a pittance, and complexity over game and game meat rules* and who can sell what but seems like selling wild venison you harvest is pretty much impossible in the states.

Like us, they import kiwi venison by the ton for high end restaurants while they have a deer problem at home



* Before you start, I know the game meat rules are fairly straightforward in England but seems to provide a fairly steady source of queries here so it's obviously not that clear
True but the game laws ie the tag system mean North American hunters actually shoot very few deer per year so getting rid of venison shouldn’t really be an issue
 
Something that was new to me that I read last month by the chef/stalker Mike Robinson was that he was investing in a deer farm in Texas.
I knew that it was illegal in most if not all states of the U.S.A. to sell venison, shot deer having to be for personal use or shared with family and friends. However non native deer species venison can be sold commercially.
 
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