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Do any of you butcher your own kills or do you all have a guy for that?
Do you sell any of the carcass, if not how do you store it?
Any part of the animals that aren't used - what happens to them?
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We field dress ourselves. I'm not the best at it to be honest but can do it. Typically you want to field dress yourselves just to make sure no bacteria from the wound is in meat. The longer it sits, the worse. If you can load it up fast enough and you have a meat processor that is close by, you can drop it off but they will charge you more.
You can get the skulls acid washed or they use some crazy bug that eats the flesh clean and you can sell the skull or pelts. You can also sell them stuffed but the real profit is from the meat itself. If you like to eat actual free range meat and have meat for a good 6 months, if you eat it pretty often.
Anything left over is left out for mother nature to takes its course. Coyotes or some other animal will eat the guts, and pick clean til there is pretty much nothing left but the bones. Any animal you shoot down, will automatically become food for another animal.