Where do you process your big game

[sniper7]

Hudson meat locker in the town of Hudson.

Not quite the selection of Steves, but better priced and much closer to me.

[spqrzilla]

We have our meat processed by a place down in Canon City ....

Who, if I may ask?

[Great-Kazoo]

Hudson meat locker in the town of Hudson.

Not quite the selection of Steves, but better priced and much closer to me.

Darrinof HudsonLockers will take care of you. Steve's Meats, Stan's in Timnanth off prospect east of ft collins. Arapahoe Meats (erie) Dustin and his sisters will get you taken care of also.

[zimagold]

Darrinof HudsonLockers will take care of you. Steve's Meats, Stan's in Timnanth off prospect east of ft collins. Arapahoe Meats (erie) Dustin and his sisters will get you taken care of also.

Thanks for the northern recommendations. Need a backup plan if I'm feeling lazy.

[cableguy11]

I hear Reliable here in FoCo is pretty good as well.

[Trigger Time 23]

We have used Steve's for 18 years and the end product is always good, but expensive. I guess you get what you pay for. I have heard bad stories about other lockers and have always shied away from trying someone else. It would suck to ruin the meat for the year.

[MarkCO]

Steve's is good. I prefered Brothers in Craig. We had 3 done at Steve's and 2 at Brother's (2008 and 2009) out of 200+ done, but have done the rest ourselves. My Wife and Mom prefer ours to either. We got taught by a butcher back in 1980 or so and have been doing it mostly ourselves except when we in process of fixing the old house and moving to the new one. When we built our house in 2009, I added some things so I could set up a processing station in my 2nd garage. Works great and I can hang 4 elk. Stainless sink (hot and cold with a 1 HP garbage disposal) with a 3x5 Ceasarstone adjacent. Make all our own burger and sausages too. About 5 hours for an elk on average from hanging to wrapped in the freezer.

[Irving]

Who, if I may ask?

Stoners.

[.455_Hunter]

Another +1 for Steve's.

[theGinsue]

I hunt down south just East of Wolf Creek Pass. I've used PDA Big Game Processing in Del Norte (Phone: (719) 657-3471. Address: 14511 W. Hwy 160, Del Norte, Colorado 81132) several times. They do a good job, but don't do any sausages that I've ever seen.

They're simply a "licensed to process wild game only for the owner's consumption. Firm may not process livestock." type of place.

If I get my harvest early enough in the season they've got it processed and frozen by the end of the season.

I don't recall the prices. I want to say a bull elk is arund $300. They do charge extra for skinning (I believe it's $30).