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Big improvements! Looking brand new.👍👍

House is looking great. Love the siding color choice!

House is looking great and I'm glad you had detectors in there!

Lots of nice improvements. Makes the house nicer to live in, and ups the value! How's that garden doing that you built up against the house a few years ago?

Thank you for the video. I process everything myself. I tell people a grinder, food saver, nice 6 in boneing knife and a decent size cutting board to get started. I added once piece of equipment every year so I could dollar cost average the expense. Helps to have a Garage fridge as well. I try to help everyone I know with their set ups and even go to their place and help with the first deer if I can.

Nice guy..read your comments. Try again.

I got hosed by a butcher when I was 16. Been doing it myself forty years since. They charge way to much

Never had a desire to eat a bear… I haven’t ever had it though. I’ll stick to herbivores, maybe pork. I ain’t mad at you though. 👍

Get a cabelas carnivore 1hp meat grinder and jerky slicer attachment because they are on sale in October

It's a lot of work, plus the overhead for the equipment, business expenses, shop space, spices, casings, everything is spendy.

Learn how to process your own meat and do it also for sausages

You pay for the butchers time and hes materials and he has to make a profit ofherwise there would be no point in using hes time to do so?.. Hes experience plus dirtying hes equipment shouldnt go un respected when hes feeding you....

I process my own. Don't trust processors. This year will be making my own summer sausage. Although processors in my area are usually reasonable.

Is bear meat good?

Processing is a huge scam. Hunters need to get back to processing there own like dad and gpa always did. Would rather buy a half of beef at those prices.

A car detail cost more than a car wash lol but next bear you get try to make all that stuff. it might be an eye opener. my cut fee for my processing is 2.50 per lb. any linked style sausage or snack stick i charge 10 a lb. it takes so long to mix, stuff, hang smoke to temp, chill, cut to size and vacuum seal that i could cut up 5 animals quicker than i can make all the specialty sausages out of one. not including the overnight hang time and the hours of smoking. plus the loss of a hook in the hanging room that could have another customers deer on it. but the only to find out and get better is to get the equipment and get after it. who knows you may make money on the side doing it.

Yeah the sticker shock will make it taste not as good as you were hoping. For what you spent you could have got the equipment (not pro level) and done it. I got a #22 1.5 hp grinder (550 lbs/hr) on Amazon for $279. Darn thing weighs 60 lbs.. Then I scored a LEM 20# vertical stuffer with electric motor & foot switch for $425, IN THE BOX. (Yeah I got lucky on that one). Manual 15# stuffer can be had for under $200. As far as a smoker goes one can convert an old fridge for nothing in most cases (us guys generally have all kinds of stuff laying around for parts and once the concept becomes clear fabbing one together is cake) or use LIQUID SMOKE (totally natural product) in meat mix and poach or use oven.

Next time make burgers,roasts etc it’s better then any other critter in the woods

Is not that cheap to do it yourself either if you figure on paying yourself. A buddy and I made a couple hundred pounds of sausage and stuff 2 years ago and had over $3 a pound invested in spices,casings,other meat for mixing plus ypu have to have the grinder and stuffed

Is not that cheap to do it yourself either if you figure on paying yourself. A buddy and I made a couple hundred pounds of sausage and stuff 2 years ago and had over $3 a pound invested in spices,casings,other meat for mixing plus ypu have to have the grinder and stuffed

I've done my own deer and bear for the last 50yrs, learned from my grandfather who was a butcher and owned his own store how to do it. It's worth getting a grinder and a few good knives. Heard many stories about getting scammed here in michigan from meat processors 🤔😳😖

I've always done everything myself. I won't let anyone touch my animals. You could have mixed deer with the bear. Also "venison" is anything with hooves you hunt. Just call it what it is. Deer, elk, moose extra.

Find a Huterite Colony there 1/4 of any processor and it's always very good.

Picked up a grinder a couple years ago. I don't do anything fancy, I just grind up the meat. From forest to table, in no one's hands but mine. Rewarding and affordable.

mix it with pork butt. Wait for a sale .99 a pound. Buy an LEM 8 or 12 grinder and a separate 5 pound Hakka stuffer. I had the bigger stuffers, you can reload a 5 lb. in seconds and it's easier to handle. Casings are expensive. There is a thousand flavors of sausage you can make. Snack sticks, just ground burger. Get the big bite grinder, not the smaller 8lb. I have the 12 and it's perfect. Get a foot pedal too. A 12 Lem and a 5lb Hakka stuffer would be less than 1 process.

They too have to make a living!

i always cut my own meat up. tons of free instruction on you tube. it almost feels to me like somebody out there is trying to discourage people actually hunting for their own food. someone that does that cant afford to do that. if that makes sense. it also looks like, the land of greedy thieves, and the home of wage slaves

I had a deer butchered a few years ago and because it was an extra deer for us that year I had the back straps and loin kept whole. The rest had made into sausage. That cost me $450 ! Plus the first deer that was $115 to package and debone it. It was way to expensive! I got back two bags of sausage Not as good as The stuff I’d ordered the year before. I’ll never do that again.

Hope it's good eating 😅

I know in west TN there have been alot of butchers gone out of business,,it's hard to find one you can trust, my brother and brought in6 or 8 deer 1 year and got 3 boxes back 1ftx1ft 15 inches tall not very big I was pissed talked to a game warden he said that's a civil madder,,a friend of mine went there had the same thing happen to him

We do our deer elk and bear its really not that dificult to be honest

Get a grinder and everything you need and start doing it yourself. Saves a ton of cash. And its a little more rewarding knowing you did it youself.

Yeah that pricing really is crazy. You could just go buy hot dogs and summer sausage for that. That smoking and cured stuff must be a Midwest thing. Not much of that in Maine where I'm at. Bear steaks, roast, burger and loose sausage is pretty standard. Just like a deer really. The old timer "you can't eat bear" attitude is one things that's wrong but still around.

Sausage is expensive, you're paying for the labor to make it, plus the spices for sure! I only bring roughly the minimum trimmings that most places take (15 pounds) and my bill is 120 to 150 bucks just for that much product! I go to 2 different places now, one near Madison and one near Green Bay where my parents live. Both are very good, but again, very expensive! I am now doing small batches on my own in my smoker, just 5 pounds at a time, until I'm comfortable making all my own.

Definitely cheaper to do it yourself! Seems like robbery what they charged you! Thank you for sharing my friend!

For that much its worth learning how to do it yourself. Yikes! Granted I have never had a bear processed.

I think the hard part with bear is that it's so dang warm out, so it would be hard to do it yourself. I haven't picked my bear up yet, but in total it should be about $600 for butchering and product. Product is $4/lb- $5/lb where I dropped off mine and $200 for butchering plus $1/lb for anything iver 200lb. So my bear was 251 on the hook, so $251 for skinning, roasts, steaks, burger. I think when I start deer hunting again, I'll just buy what I need to process my own. Too expensive now.

Never processed a bear but did all the deer I harvested. Have my own grinder, stuffer & smoker. Got different seasoning mixes from Cabela's. It's work but ya save a lot !!

Knowing what you know now what would you have done with the meat. That amount of money could buy a lot of processing equipment.

Congrats on your first bear! I like bear burger just make sure you cook it above 165 deg! Glad I found your channel and can't wait to watch more! Thank you very much for sharing my new friend!

its nice to see your back. would prefer to see your hands. this is the 3rd video i've watched that cant deliver simple information.

How do I dispose them once trpped?

So I have bird feeder it's funny I get all the wood pikers but that one but that wood I see literally few hundred feet down the street in the woods along neshaminy creek 🦍⚡🌎😇🇺🇸🎶

Couldn't hear you with the audio until I turned it way up, but the plot looks good!

Braised is my recommendation. It is definitely tougher than venison but much more mild. Makes the best stew I've had. BrIse the shanks tol they gall apart, add root vegetables like turnips, rutabaga, carrot, parsnips and onion. Typical seasonings like bay leaves, etc that you would typically use for roasts or stews. Incredible results! I render the fat to make lard, use it for high temp cooking, so brown the meat in the lard first to get the full experience.

You're such a sexy man

Gives perspective just how big they are.

I love this video! Thanks so much!

My friend used to laugh on the bus just like Woody Woodpecker.

Leave some snacks out for Woody