09/05/2026
HUNTING SEASON IS HERE! 🦌
Here we go again! We’re gearing up for another busy hunting season, and we’re excited to help turn your harvest into great food for your freezer.
Every year brings more pressure: fewer game processors, more animals, and rising costs for labour, supplies, utilities and just about everything else. We work hard to process as many animals as we possibly can, but there are only so many hours in a day and so much cooler space and we push as hard as we can.
A few important things will help us keep things moving:
🦌 CALL AS SOON AS YOU CAN TO BOOK YOUR SPOT
We do our absolute best to fit in as many hunters as possible, but we do fill up. Please call as soon as the animal hits the ground and book your reservation. Once we’re full, we may have no choice but to turn animals away, it’s never personal, and we hate doing it.
🏷️ NO TAG = NO DROP-OFF
Please have your required hunting tag with you when you arrive. NO tag = NO drop-off. NO exceptions.
🥩 CLEAN ANIMALS, PLEASE!
Meat care starts in the field. Please take the time to keep your animal clean and remove hair, dirt, pine needles and other debris before bringing it in. We are butchers, not janitors. Cleaning dirty animals takes time away from processing everyone else's harvest, and dirty animals may be refused, and it is not our job. Doing “the best we can” is not an excuse we will accept.
⏰ PICK UP YOUR ORDERS ON TIME
Our freezer space is limited. Finished orders need to be picked up promptly so we have room for the next hunter. Holding finished orders for extended periods can limit how many animals we’re able to take in and will be subject to storage fees. Be as eager to pick-up as you were to drop-off!
At the end of the day, game processing is a team effort. The better we all do our part, from field care, to booking, to drop-off and timely pickup, the more hunters we can help and the better we can do our job.
We appreciate your patience, understanding and continued support more than you know.
Good luck, stay safe, take care of your harvest, and we’ll see you at the shop!
Ullie & the team at Sumas Meats