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~ THE DALLAS POST/Wednesday, December 5, 1984 11
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Mark Dragon, assisted by his
parents, brothers and sisters, has
been conducting a family deer-cut-
ting operation for the past eight
years and, during the two weeks of
buck season, averages about 100
deer each week. During doe season,
the number is usually higher.
Normally, the first two days of
buck season are the heaviest in the
Dragon’s business but this year, the
Harveys Lake family was busier
than usual. J
“The warm weather made it
busier,” said Dragon, ‘because the
deer spoil faster if they’re not prop-
erly dressed. Hunters were coming
in the first two days as early as 8
and 9 a.m. Overall, for the week we
had about as many as usual. It was
just exceptionally busy Monday and
Tuesday, then tapered off for the
rest of the week.”
Dragon said most of the hunters
want the racks from their deer. He
noted that the racks this year were
below average in size which was
probably due to the animals’ feed-
ing during the past year.
The Dragons usually have the
same clientele each year plus a few
new customers. The business is
open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and the
entire processing takes two or three
days from the time the deer comes
in until it is all cut, freezer-wrapped
and ready to go.
Steaks, roasts, chops and ham-
burgers are the favorite cuts of
most hunters.. Very few select just
one or two varieties of cuts.
A former meat cutter of beef,
pork and other types of meat,
Dragon said each meat cutter has a
particular style of cutting. In the
Dragon operation, each animal is
tagged, hung up, skinned, excess
inside and out. Then the deer is
refrigerated until it is cut according
to the customer’s order. The tag, a
special one provided by the Penn-
sylvania Game Commission, stays
with the deer throughout the entire
process.
Although there are no state or
federal regulations for game, the
Dragons’ place of business is as
clean as any meat market. In order
to get all of the deer out the first
week, Dragon said he and other
members of the family worked from
6:00 in the morning until 10:00 or
11:00 at night to get the animals
done.
He did not know the reason why,
but Dragon said he noticed there
were a lot more ticks on the deer
this year than in the past.
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Lynn Sheehan, of Huntsville Road, Dallas, is shown here
with the spike buck he bagged while hunting in Lovelton-last
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