Im thinking about doing my own processing this year and was looking for opinions on who makes a good meat grinder

I picked up an STX International STX 3000 last year. Did a great job, very pleased. Amazon is a great place to start your research too. There's a good variety and lots of reviews.
In addtion to a grinder, be sure to pick up a food saver if you dont already have, and a scale. The grinder mentioned above allows me to make sausage links to, but an actual sausgae stuffer is something i will probably pick up at some point.

I started my own processing last year and absolutly love it. Not sure that i would ever take another anamial to a processor again.

I have one of the grinders cabelas sells, it is the 1.5 hp model and it has been awesome. Had it for about 10 years now and never had a problem. It grinds in excess of 20-30 deer a year, we use it and lend it to relatives.

You can do a search on the forum, this topic comes up often.

Thanks for the info

Hey campbell, I process on the average of 3 whitetail deer & 5/6 feral hogs a year & the $99 grinder that Northern Tool sells does a great job. Mine's going on 5 years of use & still rolling along.

http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200451267_200451267

We use a #32 hand crank grinder, same one for about 40 years.

I lie my Cabelas Commercial grade

Works good for me too. I usually do 5 a year. Mine is 4 years old.

Went with this one. Hopefully I will get to test it out in a few days

I have a LEM grinder that is 15 years old and has done at least 4 deer a year. The best advise I have is to be the best one you can afford. If you buy a good one it will last a lifetime.

Ours is 56 years old, never been re wound,buy all you can afford

i process about 10 or more deer a year. i have an old Porkert hand grinder and haven't found an electric grinder that can match it. if you want to speed things up, putting a drill to it will help speed things up, but a new guy on the hand crank and cold beer is hard to beat.