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Figured this might be a good place to post this..anybody have experience with different machines that grind and have that tube attachment. Looking for a recommendation... Mike  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | ||
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How much do you make ? KitchenAid works well for small amounts .With a couple of plates with holes , it's the auger design .Easy to take apart and clean. Then you can go up from there. I don't make large amounts .Frozen meat is ground before use .That means longer freezer life. I also mix pork with mine .venison with 30% fatty pork is my favorite. Spice to taste ! | |||
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Check eBay for a Porkert#10 from the old Czechoslovakia. I got one for 30$ with the sausage-stuffing attachments. Millions and millions of central- and eastern-Europeaons can't be wrong..... | |||
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I've done 25 lbs at a time with one of these. You will need a second person come stuffing time. ****************** "Policies making areas "gun free" provide a sense of safety to those who engage in magical thinking..." Glenn Harlan Reynolds | |||
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Here is resource for you: http://www.sausagemaker.com/manualmeatgrinders.aspx I have made as much as 300 lbs. of sausage (kielbasa) using 2 machines that were similar to the #10 manual meat grinders shown in the above site. If you do use manual machines, yes you can obviously use them to both grind and stuff, and that usually works fine for small quantities ... like 50 lbs. or less. They will give your arm a workout. However, if you are making sausage in quantity, I have found it much easier to have the meat ground by the butcher, especially if you are going to season the meat and let it marinate in the seasonings for a couple of days before you stuff. That way, you can blend and adjust the seasonings while the ground meat rests and also adjust the moisture content of the meat, by adding water or marinating juice / liquid. For kielbasa, we had the butcher grind the meat (typically pork butts) using a semi-coarse "chili grind." The other alternative is to check with some used restaurant equipment and fixture companies. Sometimes you can find used commercial meat grinders, for next to nothing. As long they come with the plates and blade, even if you have to pay a few bucks to get the blade sharpened, for home use you can rip through a whole hell of a lot of meat in nothing flat, and also make your own hamburger meat ... at least you will know what you are eating. You can then get a used manual grinder, like the #10, on e-bay and just use it to stuff the casings, and ... before you know it, you'll be in the sausage business! | |||
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For a long term investment, do not use the machine you grind the meat with to make the sausage. Use a separate stuffer. I have had very good success with LEM products. Their 1/3 (#33 I believe) horsepower grinder will do anything a home butcher needs to do, but you can go up in horsepower if so desired. And their 5 and 10 pounds sausage stuffers work great. Take a look at their website. | |||
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I'll second Lindy...my grinding and my stuffing are two distinct operations. Stuffing casings consistently is critical and a 5-10 pound crank stuffer gives me the control I want without being too huge for storage. FWIW, I've done business with The Sausage Maker for years...in fact just got an order delivered a few days ago. Saturday loks like rain, so I'm putting up some sausage sticks! Mark DRSS "I always take care to fire into the nearest hillside and, lacking that, into darkness." - the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson | |||
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