I took a deer to Southers deer cooler in Murrayville last week for the first time. It will also be the last time I take one there. It was the nastiest processor I have ever seen. I'm glad I will not be eating it.
Just curious why you thought they were nasty?
I have tried Wilkes and brooks and both of those places were nasty to me.
One had the deer bodies all piled up in a room temperature room when I took mine in.....it was unbelievevable.
The other place had piles and piles of ribs all piled up on top of each other in the ambient outside air ready to get stripped and ground.
Southers always snatches up my deer right away, weighs it if I want and puts it on the hook immediately to the cooler to hang.
I always get MY deer and the meat I get back is right on the money for the size deer I bring in.
Of all the processors I've used I have always had the best tasting meat from southers deer cooler, never got sick and never even had bone fragments.
Their staff is always friendly and they seem to really appreciate the business.
They claim you are guaranteed your deer and kinda chuckle about how unfair and nasty it would be to get someone else's deer.
Yes all deer processors have that meat smell but southers is no worse than any other processor as far as smell goes.
The ONLY complaint I have from southers deer cooler is that i wish they would not use that super thin plastic wrap to wrap up the ground meat tubes because it's always rolled into the meat and tears apart in little pieces when you try to unwrap it but I've learned to just put it in the microwave for about 6 minutes and it unwraps easily.
FYI! After wrapped they put it in a heavy camo colored plastic tube bag.
I haven't done a tour of their place but I've always been happy with their service and the excellent taste of the meat.
Brooks and Wilkes both gave me grab bags of meat and I was concerned once when I got way too much meat from each of them and found freezer burned backstraps and steaks from both places.....was not thrilled with the taste of the meat from either.
Southers has kicked -A in the honesty, integrity and taste category hands down.
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