thephatchef
PMA Member
Had anyone ever used this locker for their deer? Last year when we were boning out our deer, a guy outside of our group let us try some pepper jack cheese and jalapeño deer sticks from Hunter Smokehouse outside of Chariton. We decided to give them a try this year because Uhlrichs Meat Market in Pella did a really poor quality job on our deer last year.
We hunt led the first shotgun season, and delivered all the grind meat (we package the whole muscle meat ourselves) on the Monday of first season. Last Friday we gave them our order for what we wanted it made in to. Yesterday we got the call that it was done and ready for pick up. That's a one week turn around after placing our order. Ridiculous!
Let me just say that I would get kicked off this forum for all the expletives the would precede my comment about how freakin' good this deer is. Everything seemed to be smoked, but the smoke flavor isn't very strong at all. What so amazing about this is that I could give this stuff to my mother, who hates deer, and she would never know it was deer. There is absolutely no gamey flavor to this meat at all. Their Italian sausage looks like and tastes just as good as any Italian sausage I've ever had, including Graziano Brothers in Des Moines. The summer sausage tastes almost like a brown sugar cured ham, the bologna, which I normally avoid like the plague, is awesome, the sticks are unbelievable and all the same size in the bag. Oh, and every bag is a ziplock sealed bag, so when you are done eating your fill, you just zip it up. I've never seen that from a locker before.
I live in Ames, but hunt first season at lake Red Rock. I will drive from Ames to this locker whenever I shoot my next deer, and all future deer. It's that good.
One thing to note is that I believe you have to have your deer boned out before taking it to them. And it's pretty awesome that you get your own deer back. That's pretty sweet!
Ok, raving over. If like to hear if anyone else has tried them. If not, please do. The service is incredible, and the product you get back is out of this world good.
We hunt led the first shotgun season, and delivered all the grind meat (we package the whole muscle meat ourselves) on the Monday of first season. Last Friday we gave them our order for what we wanted it made in to. Yesterday we got the call that it was done and ready for pick up. That's a one week turn around after placing our order. Ridiculous!
Let me just say that I would get kicked off this forum for all the expletives the would precede my comment about how freakin' good this deer is. Everything seemed to be smoked, but the smoke flavor isn't very strong at all. What so amazing about this is that I could give this stuff to my mother, who hates deer, and she would never know it was deer. There is absolutely no gamey flavor to this meat at all. Their Italian sausage looks like and tastes just as good as any Italian sausage I've ever had, including Graziano Brothers in Des Moines. The summer sausage tastes almost like a brown sugar cured ham, the bologna, which I normally avoid like the plague, is awesome, the sticks are unbelievable and all the same size in the bag. Oh, and every bag is a ziplock sealed bag, so when you are done eating your fill, you just zip it up. I've never seen that from a locker before.
I live in Ames, but hunt first season at lake Red Rock. I will drive from Ames to this locker whenever I shoot my next deer, and all future deer. It's that good.
One thing to note is that I believe you have to have your deer boned out before taking it to them. And it's pretty awesome that you get your own deer back. That's pretty sweet!
Ok, raving over. If like to hear if anyone else has tried them. If not, please do. The service is incredible, and the product you get back is out of this world good.
