Well I decided to try making some sausage yesterday and nearly bit off more than I could chew. My dad came over and we had 30lbs of pork shoulder and 5 pounds of deer meat. Ground up all the pork and then stuffed 15 pounds of brats, 5 pounds of Italian sausage, and 5 pounds of beer and chedder brats. Then made 10lbs of maple breakfast sausage that we left in bulk and frooze into 1lb packages. And then ground up the deer and made 5lbs of summer sausage. All we have is a small hand crank grinder and a jerky cannon for the stuffing. Well the grinder was not too bad, have done lots of deer with it before, kinda wears on your shoulder after a while but not that bad really. But the stuffer was not so great. It worked just fine and we have 2 tubes but the only hold like 1.5lbs each so we spent a lot of time filling up the tubes. It was a lot of work and took all day long and realize I need to get a better stuffer. All the seasoning we used were pre packeages, some was called Backwoods and some was the sausage maker. I have the Italian and the beer and cheddar and summer sausage I'm going to put in the smoker tonight and the regular brats we just vac sealed and frooze. Might smoke some of them later. Since it was really my first time making sausage I probably should have done a smaller amount but we finally got through it all. The cleaning was the biggest pain in the but. Finished off the rest of my Smithwicks after we got done