OMG this is good!

[TRnCO]

I've had the pleasure of eating game meat processed at Steve's and it was good. As far as summer sausage, I had my whole whitetail done into summer sausage this past season, but since I was in KS. hunting, I had the local locker plant process it and thankfully the plant has won numerous awards for their summer sausage and man is it good. Of course I knew that going in since my family has used them since the beginning of time. Summer sausage is so awesome because it can be a snack with crackers and cheese or make a manwich with it. We love it around here too.

[sniper7]

Used to go to Steves a lot but found Hudson lockers. Cheaper and just as good!!! I did two elk a whitetail and a bunch of ducks and geese there last year in every possible thing they offer and it's all amazing!

I have had issues with getting the same meat back from Steves. A buddy shot an elk with a bow and ended up biting down on a chunk of copper/lead.

[fitz19d]

Just spitballing, but any chance of it being a older hunting wound?

[Graves]

Just spitballing, but any chance of it being a older hunting wound?

That would be my first thought.

[Grant H.]

Unfortunately, lots of meat processors don't/won't guarantee that you are going to get your meat back.

My older brothers and I just butchered a cow by ourselves because we have had issues with getting other meat back when we take cows in.

[GilpinGuy]

A guy I hunt with knows someone who works at Steves. He said that there is always some meat left in the grinder after doing someones animal. They don't clean the grinder after every animal, so you might get some meat that's not yours. I have no idea if this is true but it makes sense I suppose.

I was kinda put off when my bull burger came back from Steves with copper in it. I shot it in the neck and didn't think the bullet could have travelled to the meat I harvested, but it is possible I guess.

I plan on butchering myself the next time. I just need to learn how to do it anyway.

[Jonsey]

We have used Hudson before too, and we will probably go back there in the future, but we feel like we end up with more meat when we do the butchering ourselves. Sausage is a lot of work though unless you have some kind of super charged meat grinder. Here is the video I learned from GilpinGuy. It takes our family of four all day to cut, wrap, and freeze a whole hog, but it is really fun family time and fresh meat on the bbq tastes amazing when you are tired. I assume this would work with game animals too, but I haven't gotten that far with hunting yet.

[rondog]

Just spitballing, but any chance of it being a older hunting wound?

I'd assume it to be very possible, even likely, to find an old bullet or fragment in an animal. There's a lot of people out there shooting at them, and not always legally. Plus the possibility of pass-through bullets or fragments hitting a second animal, etc. I sure wouldn't automatically blame the processor for it. Hell, after we'd dressed and quartered my first deer and they were working on a second one a young lady had shot, they found a mystery bullet in that deer while skinning it.

[hurley842002]

That would be my first thought.

Mine as well.

[sniper7]

Normally I'd say it's possible but since they boned the animal out you would see some pretty good scar tissue. The guy that shot it is very meticulous about his animals, and his meat. I just don't see him missing something like that. That's what turned him away.

I got turned away by their attitude when dropping off meat. I really like their products, they do excellent work, just like Hudson better