Replying to a message of Anne Page to Jim White:

 AP> Regarding bones ... a friend of mine years ago got a friend who went
 AP> deer hunting to give her bones when he was having the meat packaged
 AP> for his freezer. He just told the place doing it for him to not throw
 AP> away the big bones but to cut them into dog size pieces and to leave
 AP> some meat on them.

 AP> So perhaps contacting a guide and asking for bones from the deer his
 AP> hunting parties get might be a good thing to do.

Good idea.  Except I'll trot over to the nearest meat locker and ask them to
do it.

Small town meat lockers are basically butchers that do custom work (and have
space to store large quantities of meat for people that don't have the space).
My neighbor up the street buys a calf (I find it hard to call an animal that stands
nearly five feet high and weighs 400 pounds a calf, but I'm a city boy
) every
spring and keeps it with his horses until it's grown, then he puts it in his horse
trailer and carts it over to the meat locker - and a couple of days later brings it
back packaged for his freezer.

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