Andy's meat market in the Springs. There is another in Cascade, but I dont remember his name. Did you score?
Andy's meat market in the Springs. There is another in Cascade, but I dont remember his name. Did you score?
?? I've been using them for 6 years without a problem. What's been happening?
I dropped my deer of with them on the Sept. 14th and got it back yesterday. I thought it was pretty expensive for what I got but I didn't have abywhere else to go. I tried some of the jerky and it was pretty good. I'd go back to them again if I had to, but I'd prefer someplace a little less commercial with better prices.
There have been many a rumor that you don't get your own meat. But I can verify that people have been missing some of their premium cuts from their processed animals... and after this they never go back.
I say lets all remove the warning labels and let nature take its course.
I have used these folks for years and I have been extremely satisfied:
Charlie & Bonnie Hoffman 303-913-0809 (Cell). They are out east in Peyton. You drop your animal off and get it back the same day.
I used Andy's one time and will NEVER go back. They charged me the highest prices I've ever been charged (I spent more for a muley there than I spend for an entire elk elsewhere) and I got back so little meat it was pathetic.
Now, I know what some might say, but I know very well how to field dress an animal and how to protect the meat from drying out and contaminents.
The muley was decent sized but the meat I got back was only enough to have been from a mid-sized german shepard.
It is my opinion (I stress: OPINION) that they are either helping themselves to some of the meat to sell in their store (they do sell deer), or they are just wasteful in how t hey process it.
Just my 0.02 on Andy's.
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There is another place that used to put their cards in every WalMart in Colo Spr that I tried with my first elk. Won'r use them again either. They operate out of their garage and are off of either Bell Mtn Dr or Del Paz Dr just off of Vickers & Flintridge.
The wife and wife's mother and father all claim to have worked for a grocery store as butchers for lots of years.
Overall they didn't do too bad of a job and certainly didn't charge too much, but they didn't listen to me when I said to keep my tenderloin in one piece (they cut it all up into chops - definitely NOT what I told them) and I wasn't so thrilled with their packaging.
Ginsue - Admin
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I know the couple you are referring to and they no longer operate out of their garage in the Springs - too many complaints from tree-hugging neighbors. The wife's mother and father operate out of their home out east of town (see my previous post).
They have processed six elk and eight deer for my friends & I and we've never had a problem. They always cut ours up exactly the way we ask. The only downside(?) is you get back all of the animal (hide, bones, head & legs), not just the meat since they don't have a permit to dispose of the waste.
The last elk I had processed (two seasons ago), the meat was put in a plastic bag, then wrapped in butcher paper. I cooked some last weekend, and after two years, no freezer burn anywhere!
Those folk right off of Vickers are the folks I was looking for. I took my elk in there a few years ago as well as a big Mule deer and I thought they did a great job, pretty fair price, and fast too. I sent a friend over there last year and he said they were no longer there. I'm definitely going to use them again if I'm lucky enough to fill my elk tag this year.