Buck Stops Here — Local services in Lakeway

BEWARE!!!!

The former owner of Hudson's Meat Market has recently purchased the buck stops here. I grew up and Austin and went to Hudson's for years before I finally couldn't take the price. Make no mistake, their processing is the best in town, but the price became unbearable.

It appears that the same is now true here. I just picked up my 2 deer, and walked out with a $719 processing fee. My friend took his two deer and walked out for just over $500. Rarely have I ever had a bill that is even half of what I paid today.

The fault is not all theirs, after all, I am the one who did the ordering. But, to let someone rack up an over $700 bill without saying anything is, at best, bad customer service.

As I left today, the lady at the cash register told me, "I'll tell you like I told another guy, instead of ordering '1/3 this and 1/3 that,' you should just order the amount of pounds you want." Thanks for that. I wish you had told me that when you were...

First time trying them and good service, drop-off, speed, and packaging. My only concern which will limit my business with them and may be specific to me is that I realized they don't allow you to change your deer / pork ratios for sausage and chorizo. Meaning, they assume 50/50 deer/pork in the sausage but I prefer processors that can go leaner to say 90/10 deer/pork. For many 50/50 is fine, but I just prefer lean game and less fat - it's such a great protein as it is. Everything else that was a "pure" (straps, tenderloin,...

The Buck Stops here is our go-to for any game processing. They also have a taxidermist on site if you choose to mount your game. Great selections and the original owner, Mr. Hudson, is still running the place with great help from family and very nice employees. We moved about an hour from DS, but still make the drive to use them for all of our processing needs! My favs: Buck sticks, Pan Sausage (to make breakfast sausage items/spaghetti, sausage cheese balls), Jalapeño and cheese sausage, Bratwurst sausage. Its...