CWD positive in the Flat Tops

[cnelk]

If you get an infected animal they reissue you another tag and reimburse up to $100 in processing fees. It might increase the pressure

 

[Stalker69]

Have either of you done any research on CWD, apparently you haven’t and are just spouting off at the mouth ?

 

[5MilesBack]

CWD, Covid, Covid vaccines, cancer, lung disease, cardiovascular disease, aneurysms, car wrecks, stroke, old age..........we all gotta die of something. No sense in worrying about what it will be that finally does us in. Until then, go out and live. Worry, stress, and fear will KILL you.

 

[Stalker69]

Meaning? I trust that my elk is my elk and not a mixed bag, should I not? ...and my processor is 4 hours away from the unit I hunt, not a high PK that a bunch of flattops elk are brought in.

If your not processing your own meat, most likely you are not getting your meat back. They normally process several animals at a time and cut them together, and they go by what your animal weighed upon arrival and figure in average yield. And that is how much meat you get back.

 

[Vandy321]

If your not processing your own meat, most likely you are not getting your meat back. They normally process several animals at a time and cut them together, and they go by what your animal weighed upon arrival and figure in average yield. And that is how much meat you get back.

I hope not, this place prides themselves on not mixing meat. And I do my very best to get my meat hung and cooled asaply

 

[LostArra]

If your not processing your own meat, most likely you are not getting your meat back. They normally process several animals at a time and cut them together, and they go by what your animal weighed upon arrival and figure in average yield. And that is how much meat you get back.

I feel bad for you Stalker. May be true in your area but definitely not the case everywhere. At my local processor you can watch them cut and package one animal at a time. The back wall of the check-in desk is glass. You better not blink because it's over quickly if you get the basic cuts.

 

[Stalker69]

Feel bad for me ? I process my own meat, plus a lot of animals for others. Do some taxidermy work also. No need To feel bad for me ! I feel for the ones that don’t do there own, it’s really not hard to do. And you know exactly what your getting and can butcher into the cuts and portion you like. I worked for a couple local butchers while in high school, and I know what many do.

 

[tdhanses]

I feel bad for you Stalker. May be true in your area but definitely not the case everywhere. At my local processor you can watch them cut and package one animal at a time. The back wall of the check-in desk is glass. You better not blink because it's over quickly if you get the basic cuts.

I have to agree, my processor prides themselves in you get your own meat.

I do process my own if I have time but will pay the $1.5/lb if i don’t.

 

[Stalker69]

I have to agree, my processor prides themselves in you get your own meat.

I don’t think many get watch them process there own animals. And if so learn from it and do your own. It’s easier then reloading your own cartridges, but then again, there are many that don’t do that either. It’s really all part of “ hunting” if you ask me. Not just pulling the trigger. And yes they all will tell you, you get your animal back, they are not going to tell you other wise, that would be nuts. I Know for a fact, that is not always the case.

 

[tdhanses]

I don’t think many get watch them process there own animals. And if so learn from it and do your own. It’s easier then reloading your own cartridges, but then again, there are many that don’t do that either. It’s really all part the “ hunting” if you ask me. Not just pulling the trigger.

I learned from my dad and grandma but don’t always have time.

 

[Stalker69]

I have a nephew that also went hunting with us, he never had the time when it came time to butcher either, but never ever had a problem finding time to go hunting. Take another day or two off work, figure it into your days your taking off any ways. Many don’t find the time, because they don’t want to. I have processed meat until 2-3 in the morning and still went to work that day at 6. Prefer to “ plan” for it when I take time off though. Oh yea, nephew and a few others that “ never had the time” don’t hunt with us any more. We would cut there meat and package it, make sausage every thing, and they expected us to give them their meat back, it don’t work that way here.

 

[Vandy321]

I have a nephew that also went hunting with us, he never had the time when it came time to butcher either, but never ever had a problem finding time to go hunting. Take another day or two off work, figure it into your days your taking off any ways. Many don’t find the time, because they don’t want to. I have processed meat until 2-3 in the morning and still went to work that day at 6. Prefer to “ plan” for it when I take time off though. Oh yea, nephew and a few others that “ never had the time” don’t hunt with us any more. We would cut there meat and package it, make sausage every thing, and they expected us to give them their meat back, it don’t work that way here.

It's not a matter of know how...I can make burger and cut some medallions out of the loins, that's all we eat anyways. For me, it's a matter of time. My free time is more valuable to me being spent with wife, my kid or my dogs...same reason I sold my press and dies...not worth my time. I'll pay a small price to have someone else do it, plus, happy to support a local business and help someone else keep the lights on or put some extra gifts under the Christmas tree. Glad you can do your own, but you seem to think that's the only way to do it. I disagree, for a variety of reasons.

 

[Stalker69]

No i realize it’s not the not the onlyway to do it. I prefer not to pay somebody for something I can do my self. And I just consider it part of hunting. Your just a step away from paying some one to kill it also. Nothing wrong at all with it, i by some store bought meat and eat out occasionally also. But I was brought up to learn and do as much as you can for your self, so I just consider processing as part of the hunt, and plan accordingly. I know many that don’t, not trying to belittle, or sound superior or any thing like that that. I just like to do things my self, including working on my vech. taxidermy, raising vegetables and fruits, cooking and baking, home improvements all that stuff.the more you can do your self the better off you will be, in my opinion. And it’s exactly my opinion only, which is not worth anything. Free time was spent hunting away from those things also, though. So I get it, but not really. My dad said you find time, or you make the time. Or you don’t do it, and that sticks with me to this day.

 

[cnelk]

I process my own and also have the a processor do some.

When I start with antelope in August, elk in September, deer in October, elk in November, deer in December, I don’t have enough time to do it all.

I have used my processor for 20 years. No issues there. He doesn’t take on new customers, but always has time for my stuff.

 

[AG8]

Your just a step away from paying some one to kill it also.

That’s a pretty damn big step…

 

[Stalker69]

Not really, how do you figure ? Beef, pork, chicken that most get from the grocery store. Are all killed by some one else, then they are proceed and we paid them for doing it. Correct ? Hunting I don’t fill is just about the “ trigger man”.

 

[Jn78]

A beautiful first rifle 6x6 tested positive. I’m heartbroken because I’ve hunted in the Flat Tops for the last 12 years and don’t know how to feel about it going forward.

Does CWD impact where you consider hunting?

I was pretty bummed the first time I shot a cwd positive deer. I don't know if I would've eaten it before I had kids, but I am not feeding it to my kids. I processed that deer and froze it before I got the test results. I gave it to a neighbor who loves deer and was always very vocal, claiming he wouldn't hesitate to eat a cwd positive deer. He threw the deer away.

This year I shot another cwd positive deer. When I got up to it, it was super sick looking. I wasn't going to eat that deer regardless of any test result. I can't really explain why, but cutting up something that was literally skin and bones was kinda gross.

After my first experience, I was not excited to hunt that area again, but I got over that. After my second experience, I was glad to put that deer down. I will hunt both areas next year, but the decision would be harder if the freezer wasn't well-stocked or if a higher percentage of

 

[AG8]

If the game animal was standing in a pen, yes. You are glossing over the time, effort, and sacrifice that goes into hunting wild game over buying a domestic animal. To imply that those who choose to use a processing service might as well be paying someone to shoot or are somehow only in it for the glory or killing (or whatever the hell you ‘trigger man’ comment really means) sounds pretty condescending.

 

[Stalker69]

It’s all part of the process, plain and simple. Goes from living, to dying, to protein ( food). Do it all your self, parts of it, pay others to do parts of it or all of it, it don’t matter. It’s up to each of us. And yes, many are in it for pulling the trigger only. We have several every year that drop off their animals to process and never show up to pick up their meat. We donate it. Many each year that have been so mishandled in the field we refuse them, some to the point maggots are crawling on them, customers toss them in trash I am sure. Some there is more of the animal( meat) that must be left in the field then what they bring in. I am pretty sure it’s because it costs less to process less meat. Hunting means so many different things to different people.

 

[AG8]

It’s all part of the process, plain and simple. Goes from living, to dying, to protein ( food). Do it all your self, parts of it, pay others to do parts of it or all of it, it don’t matter. It’s up to each of us. And yes, many are in it for pulling the trigger only. We have several every year that drop off their animals to process and never show up to pick up their meat. We donate it. Many each year that have been so mishandled in the field we refuse them, some to the point maggots are crawling on them, customers toss them in trash I am sure. Some there is more of the animal( meat) that must be left in the field then what they bring in. I am pretty sure it’s because it costs less to process less meat. Hunting means so many different things to different people.

So then it sounds like you are in fact a processor yourself. Who is then actively denigrating those who use processors??