Uh Oh!!

[airbornedeerhunter]

Shot a buck and a doe a couple weeks back before i went out of town with work, the wife went down to the butcher to pick up the deer, all good so far! She brings it all home and loads it into the deepfreeze, tells me over the phone that she could barely get the lid closed??? She listed off the quantity of each cut I asked for and my head almost popped off, we were definately given someones elses meat on top of ours, at least a full deer's worth. Now its all mixed together, i don't get back for another ten days,no way to tell who owns what anymore. Should I even try to get this sorted out or is this the butchers problem?? Feel like another guy will shortchanged, but the wife had no idea how much she was picking up because she's never had to do it before, If I 'd been there I would have noticed something was wrong right away. Someones gonna be mad at the butcher!

[Alberta Bigbore]

who was the butcher?

[KegRiver]

I would call that butcher right away. Tell him what you found and see what he has to say. It may be possible to work out a division of the meat that would be fair to both you and that other hunter. Based on the weights of the deer delivered to the butcher.

To do nothing would leave the other fellow with nothing, and the butcher with a very POed customer and perhaps in violation of the law.

I would think this was an honest mistake, something you or I could do.


Just my two cents worth.

[alacringa]

This is definitely the butcher's issue, not yours...but with that being said, I would feel a responsibility to at least bring it up with the butcher, and see what (s)he says. Not sure what could possibly be done at this point, but pointing out this error, may prevent similar ones in the future? Someone is definately going to be when they go to pick up their deer, and there's nothing there for them.

edit: dang it, Keg...you beat me to it!

[Traps]

Exactly why I started butchering my own. Know where my meat comes from and how it was treated.

[Hunter_spec]

Im gonna start cutting my meat as well, my father and his budy came from Quebec to hunt this year and we killed all our deer. I sent the first 2 deer to the butcher and I told him to dont worry about the front of the deer cause we both shot them in the shoulder( Rack hunter not meat hunter). The butcher charges me the whole deer when I told him to just forget about the front and to just make steak( takes 2 sec to cut a deer in half), my deer was over 300lbs dressed, he told me it was 70 cent a pound, 1 thing I didnt know is, it was 70 cent/pound for the whole deer. Anyways long story short he charges me 360$ and I have barely 50 lbs of meat for 2 deer. Im from Quebec and thats not the way butcher are working over there. Ill learn for next year I guess, I made a big scene when I saw the bill and I ambarassed him a little bit in front of other customer, so he cut the 3rd one for free. Ill never go there again thats for sure. I used to worked as a butcher before I joined the military and that guy just did the worst job ever.

[HunterDave]

Airborne, You are going by what your wife is telling you in that she could barely close the lid. Depending on the cuts and sausage that you had made it might take up more room than you thought. I just butchered a doe and I only got about 50 lbs of meat de-boned so that doesn't take up much room. I'd wait until you got home before I called anyone. It might just turn out that they packaged it differently or your wife had a novel way of loading the freezer.

[Trav]

Originally Posted by Hunter_spec

Im gonna start cutting my meat as well, my father and his budy came from Quebec to hunt this year and we killed all our deer. I sent the first 2 deer to the butcher and I told him to dont worry about the front of the deer cause we both shot them in the shoulder( Rack hunter not meat hunter). The butcher charges me the whole deer when I told him to just forget about the front and to just make steak( takes 2 sec to cut a deer in half), my deer was over 300lbs dressed, he told me it was 70 cent a pound, 1 thing I didnt know is, it was 70 cent/pound for the whole deer. Anyways long story short he charges me 360$ and I have barely 50 lbs of meat for 2 deer. Im from Quebec and thats not the way butcher are working over there. Ill learn for next year I guess, I made a big scene when I saw the bill and I ambarassed him a little bit in front of other customer, so he cut the 3rd one for free. Ill never go there again thats for sure. I used to worked as a butcher before I joined the military and that guy just did the worst job ever.

well the butcher cannot just forget about part of the animal he has to make an attempt to save what he can for you it is the law you cannot throw out or waste meat. If it is completely waste then yeah but he still has to deal with it. If you brought me a 300lb deer you would get charged for a 300lb deer, if I was a butcher that is. the butcher has to deal with the whole animal not just part of it. 70 cents a pound is cheap compared to around here most are closer to 90 cents anymore and wont take whole carcasses, deboned only.

I would call butcher and let him know what happened and try to sort it out.