There is a certain pride to doing things yourself. Tying your own flies, building your own rods, hell even changing your own oil in your car. Most people these days don’t seem to want to do anything for themselves. If someone else can do it for just a little cash, that’s better, right? Wrong.
There are always those things that are better left to the pros. But you would be amazed at how much you can actually do for yourself. The other night Shane shot his first buck with his bow. Congrats and high fives for that. The following night, he asked if I could help cut it up.
Knowing how to cut up your own meat is a good skill to have. You watch the meat through the entire process, and you know exactly what has happened to it, what touches it, and what goes into it. Being fairly novice at the art of cutting game, I was a little slow, but between the two of us we got the four quarters cut up in about three hours.
Deer that was walking around the woods less than 24 hours earlier tastes damn good when dredged in flour and fried in a cast iron skillet with some farm fresh local eggs on the side. Anything tastes better when you do it for yourself.
So the next time you have a deer to cut up, flies you need, or anything else you could conceivably do, take the step and do it yourself.
