Northern BC butcher / meat care

[SF2020]

We are doing a fly in, raft out hunt in northern BC out of Muncho Lake... never hunted up north... if we are successful with a moose or 2 curious what people do for meat care... anyone have any ideas on a butcher up north or do most guys bring it all back home to a butcher close by. We are in Pemberton so its a bit of a haul.

Just looking for ideas on what most guys do who have done these northern hunts with maybe a few moose to deal with after...

Thanks!

[CheesyLimper]

When about are you going?

[SF2020]

Heading up mid September

[Retiredguy]

I'd recommend that you and your buddies watch a few Youtube videos on butchering, pool your resources on a good grinder, and do it yourself. Getting harder and harder to find a good butcher and when big distances are involved between where you are hunting and where you reside, it is all the more reason to learn to do it yourself. If you want sausage and aren't planning on learning how to do it, just bag up your trim in bags with 25 pounds per bag and then take it to a local establishment to get it made when convenient.

[Imdone]

Beware.
We took a couple in early to Ft.Nelson.
Dude said $25 per day to hang till it got cut and packaged.
Turned out he ripped us off at $25 per day x each quarter, not per animal.
Dupped us for several hundred more to the date he cut and wrapped.
Then cutting fees. Don't assume anything.
Good luck to you.

Beware of a name Funk the Butcher I believe.

[Downtown]

Talk to your Pilot he will know.
And as "imdone" mentioned already, don't assume nothing and have a Plan B.

Cheers

[jamfarm]

I'd recommend that you and your buddies watch a few Youtube videos on butchering, pool your resources on a good grinder, and do it yourself. Getting harder and harder to find a good butcher and when big distances are involved between where you are hunting and where you reside, it is all the more reason to learn to do it yourself. If you want sausage and aren't planning on learning how to do it, just bag up your trim in bags with 25 pounds per bag and then take it to a local establishment to get it made when convenient.

Careful with this advice, not that I disagree with it. You have to leave proof of sex on the animal when transporting unless you have had a compulsory inspection done. That's my plan for this year, shoot an elk, get a CI and butcher in camp. I reached out to the CO service to confirm this, see this post:

http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showthread.php?170169-Compulsory-Inspection/page2&highlight=butcher+camp

[Retiredguy]

jamfarm.....I hear what you are saying, but I didn't mean butcher and grind where they were hunting. Was thinking more about haul the quarters home and then process them at home. Assumed they would be thinking that way, but I should probably have made it more clear. I gather you and your hunting buddies must take a freezer and generator with you if you are planning to cut and wrap in camp after getting the CI done.

[jamfarm]

jamfarm.....I hear what you are saying, but I didn't mean butcher and grind where they were hunting. Was thinking more about haul the quarters home and then process them at home. Assumed they would be thinking that way, but I should probably have made it more clear. I gather you and your hunting buddies must take a freezer and generator with you if you are planning to cut and wrap in camp after getting the CI done.

Gotcha. Yes, we will bring everything we need to butcher in camp, generator, freezer, vacuum sealer etc etc. We'd rather take a day off hunting to process the meat after the CI is done and have beautiful trimmed steaks, roasts and ground as opposed to bring it into a cutter or butcher, who knows what you'll get.

[HappyJack]

Beware.
We took a couple in early to Ft.Nelson.
Dude said $25 per day to hang till it got cut and packaged.
Turned out he ripped us off at $25 per day x each quarter, not per animal.
Dupped us for several hundred more to the date he cut and wrapped.
Then cutting fees. Don't assume anything.
Good luck to you.

Beware of a name Funk the Butcher I believe.

Wow, what a rip off artist. Lots of northern boys I know would have knocked his teeth out for trying to pull that stunt on them. It's usually $ amount per day to hang the animal [not by the quarter] in the cooler for you to take home, when you leave it with them for processing it's a by the pound rate. You don't pay both, I know that I sure as hell wouldn't have.

[Imdone]

A couple of us didn't want to pay, it was either pay or not get any moose back.
Funk was a a__clown.
Don't imagine he got much local Business.

Beware of these rip off butchers

[ElectricDyck]

If you can get the meat skinned over and keep it dry it can last pretty long, its usually cold enough at night in the mountains to get it cold to the core. Then when you get out drive straight though till you get home and have a chest freezer or two waiting. Or bring a chest freezer and a little whisper generator along. Let it run while you drive, it will be cold enough to leave for the night at the hotel.

[SF2020]

Thanks for all the ideas and advice... looks like we will are planning on just bringing it back boned out home to process... very hard to find reliable butchers these days!

[JAGRMEISTER]

Wow, what a rip off artist. Lots of northern boys I know would have knocked his teeth out for trying to pull that stunt on them. It's usually $ amount per day to hang the animal [not by the quarter] in the cooler for you to take home, when you leave it with them for processing it's a by the pound rate. You don't pay both, I know that I sure as hell wouldn't have.


being a "northern boy" we know how to field dress, butcher and remove any animal from any location! therefore no need to try and knock the teeth out of some toothless waste of skin!

[HappyJack]

being a "northern boy" we know how to field dress, butcher and remove any animal from any location! therefore no need to try and knock the teeth out of some toothless waste of skin!

Well we used the lockers @ Pink Mountain and in Dawson at a set $ per day for hanging, none of them were dumb enough to try and charge us $ per quarter per day when we went to pay. Sometimes it's smarter to hang in a secure and cooled location rather than have your meat sour, get eaten by bears or stolen.

[JAGRMEISTER]

sWING IT HIGH IN A TREE ? PRETTY SIMPLE ISNT IT?M THE HUNTER WHOS IS TAGGED OUT CAN KEEP PREDATORS AND THIEVES AWAY.
unless you are the sort of person that shares others tags?

[wideopenthrottle]

don't forget that tagged out on one animal doesnt mean there aren't other things to hunt...we've lost a high hung deer to a grizz at night before (bull river)...bottom of the game bag was a good 6 feet up but the bear reached up grabbed enough of it to pull down the entire newly hung pole with both deer..it only dragged off the doe and left the buck on the ground under the pole....it too was in a game bag so it stayed clean..the pole was maybe 100 feet from camp...the new poles we made after that were right in camp, had a rope perimeter all around it tied to a step ladder with a 5 gal pail of cans to alert us...the bear came back everynight and we had to blast off quite a few shotgun shells to keep scaring it off
sWING IT HIGH IN A TREE ? PRETTY SIMPLE ISNT IT?M THE HUNTER WHOS IS TAGGED OUT CAN KEEP PREDATORS AND THIEVES AWAY.
unless you are the sort of person that shares others tags?

[JAGRMEISTER]

6' high? any bear can easily reach that! hopefully you have learned.

[HappyJack]

sWING IT HIGH IN A TREE ? PRETTY SIMPLE ISNT IT?M THE HUNTER WHOS IS TAGGED OUT CAN KEEP PREDATORS AND THIEVES AWAY.
unless you are the sort of person that shares others tags?

You mean like in a group leh hunt? I am thinking you've been into the cups so we will forgive you the stupidity of your words.

[wideopenthrottle]

yep....it was the first time ever having the meat pole raided by a bear..now we put up the meat pole standing on the roof of the camper...heheheh
6' high? any bear can easily reach that! hopefully you have learned.

[MOOSE MILK]

Last year too hot to hang a moose shot on the first day of the hunt, took it into a shop in Quinsnell where it was butchered and nicely wrapped. The trimmings were bagged in 25 lb. bags that were frozen and then taken to a butcher on the Island to be made into sausage and pepperoni.
Forgot the name of the butcher, he is on the right-hand side just as you are going into Quinsnell from the south.
MM

[Downtown]

Chilaco Meats bout 20 Km west of Prince George is a reliable Butcher cutting also lots of Game Meat.

Cheers

[HappyJack]

Last year too hot to hang a moose shot on the first day of the hunt, took it into a shop in Quinsnell where it was butchered and nicely wrapped. The trimmings were bagged in 25 lb. bags that were frozen and then taken to a butcher on the Island to be made into sausage and pepperoni.
Forgot the name of the butcher, he is on the right-hand side just as you are going into Quinsnell from the south.
MM

Dog Prarie Meats sound familiar?