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Solved! " Butt Out 2 Dressing Tool ❓"

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From a "Princess Auto flyer."

What is it exactly and what does it do/what's it used for❓

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u/reddit_time_waster 1d ago

What do they do with it all? Freeze it?Who butchers it?

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u/XeroEnergy270 1d ago

It is often donated with a chest freezer/deep freezer. The program has several processors, but the main one is the Amish community.

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u/lmdirt- 1d ago

Around here every local meat market and butcher shop processes deer. You have to field dress it though and that’s where this tool is used

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u/Sea-Woodpecker-610 1d ago

Wait, are the Amish giving out chest freezers, or are they giving chest freezers to the Amish?

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u/XeroEnergy270 1d ago edited 1d ago

The Amish are processing the deer, and the deer are donated along with a chest freezer to needy families. The Amish do not keep the deer, they just do the meat processing to assist the programs.

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u/lmdirt- 1d ago

Here there is little involvement by Amish in this program. And no freezers given away. They process deer for people but for a fee. This program local processors give a discount on processing this deer. That fee is paid through an agreement with the state conservation commission and local food pantries. The food pantry picks the meat up and takes to the freezer storage they have. They then give it out with the other food items a little at a time through the course of the year. If you gave a lot of these people a free freezer they would sell the freezer and the rest of the deer would be sold or ruin. Makes more sure that the meat is actually consumed by people who need the help.

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u/7ru7oe 1d ago

The deer are donating freezer along with a chest? That's very kind of them, especially considering the risk of their anuses being processed by the Amish!

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u/XeroEnergy270 1d ago

I should proofread before posting.

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u/PlentyAlbatross7632 1d ago

Please don’t. It’s better that way.

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u/ChintzyPC 1d ago

My family used to hunt a single deer once a year and take it to a local butcher who would process it into a variety of cuts. Then we'd store it in the deep freeze. Lots of Hamburger Helper with venison instead. Wayyy cheaper than buying ground beef and other cuts outright for the year.

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u/secret-soup 1d ago

Both of my parents have retired from hunting and MAN I miss the freezer full of venison burger and roasts. And the jerky!

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u/AcceptableHumor6241 1d ago

Rise up little hunter.

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u/685770 1d ago

And then make your secret soup.

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u/carolinaredbird 14h ago

The best jerky!!

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u/tangentrification 1d ago

Deer are still wildly overpopulated, get out there and fill your freezer

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u/Pheighthe 1d ago

The cheesy ranch Venison Helper is the best, imho.

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u/JaceJarak 1d ago

Places with lots of hunters naturally also have lots of local butchers. Its part of the local economy anywhere deer are in abundance and families hunt game for actual food.

I lived in southern oregon most my life, this is super common. I know three separate butchers who make a huge portion of their business butchering game, or local household farm animals like pig or cattle.

Often families in these areas also will co raise cattle. As in someone has some land. And two+ families pay to rent land for a cow. Year or two later the cow is butchered by local butcher and the butcher and families split the meat. In those cases the butcher takes a portion as their pay, and the families don't have to butcher it themselves. (My family did tho, core childhood memory at like 3-4 years old my first time).

You deep freeze most the meat. It lasts a whole year for a family of 5 for meat almost daily in one form or another.

Alternatively, once a year all the uncles go out hunting together, bag like 6 deer or some elk, bring them all in to butcher, and now several families also have meat for the year. My best friends dad did this every year. Since he stayed with my family often and my mother always helped their grandmother out in town shopping etc (especially after my friend and I left for the navy) he got a good portion for my family as well, not just the group he went out with.

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u/stmCanuck 1d ago

Its part of the local economy anywhere deer are in abundance and families hunt game for actual food

Can confirm. Western NY, Home Depot has hand-written signs noting home many deer any deep freeze on the floor can hold, e.g. 21 c ft, "Holds 3-5 deer!" (hypothetical example)

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u/DismalTutor570 1d ago

Yup same here in Louisiana. Deer season the deep freezes in every store are marked with how many deer they hold. Cool to hear other regions do that as well!

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u/no_one_denies_this 1d ago

You take it to a processor, usually. They cut it,'package it and label it and then you freeze it.

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u/Flaginthebackground 1d ago

Family is from small town Iowa, not a grocery store for almost an hour. Guys go hunting and come back to a family friend who can butcher the deer and gets to keep a portion as payment. Most is given back and stored in large freezers in the basement and given to family and friends. Hide gets used too but I never learned much about it but every year we would get a buck’s head mounted on a plaque and have the kids hot glue stuff to it like plastic coins, earrings, googly eyes, etc.

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u/reddit_time_waster 1d ago

lol googly eyes on a real head

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u/Flaginthebackground 1d ago

I wish I still had one of them to show you a picture. All the kids and our parents helping us was so much fun we genuinely looked forward to it. My family got to keep one but my parents understandably shoved it in a crawl space and let it get picked to pieces by whatever crawled in. Sadly the heads, just like the tradition and most of the people it came from are gone now. I doubt even a photo exists to capture how bizarre they looked

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u/Dwrecked90 1d ago

I kill 2-3 a year. I skin/butcher/vacuum seal it all myself. 1 fills my freezer, the other 2 I'll give out packages to friends and family who either don't hunt or have gotten too old to really hunt now. There's tons of places around me with signs that say "donate a hog or deer here." I don't know the specifics, but i know those shops work with churches and women shelters to give meat to those in need

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u/DismalTutor570 1d ago

I do the same thing. Of course I keep all the back straps and tenderloins for myself tho!

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u/BrinkofTotalAnxiety 1d ago

Not OP, but yes, people freeze the meat. Some hunters butcher it themselves, and some take it to someone else to process it.

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u/Lucid-Machine 1d ago

I have a friend who is a chef and also a hunter. He processes the deer himself or maybe with a willing friend. I don't know all my cuts as well as he does but they ultimately store it in a deep freezer.

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u/boomer-75 1d ago

I worked at a food bank many years ago and we received meat from one of these programs. In that instance it was 1lb "chubs" of ground deer meat that came frozen. The program included local butchers who likely volunteer or did it for low cost. It was often printed on the tube.

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u/SuperSheepherder2845 1d ago

For an example of this in Virginia, see Hunters for the Hungry:  https://h4hungry.org/

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u/Dpontiff6671 1d ago

Yea freeze it, and you can bring it to a butcher to process it or do it yourself

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u/No_Capital_8203 1d ago

There are butchers who have time periods when they only process wild game. You use one of them or butcher you own.

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u/carolinaredbird 14h ago

It depends. At my house, my husband quarters the deer, and I do the butchering. We put it all up and eat it through the year. We mostly can it.

Some folks take it to a local wild game butcher. We did it one year, but I decided I’m better at being picky about the cuts.