What in the heck are they doing? No refrigeration?
Tonkawa meats actually lets your deer or elk hang just like beef on the rail to help with tenderness and flavor at the perfect temperature.
First of all, let me say we have not used them in years (with good reason), so things may have changed. I don't know. I had a co-worker some years ago who said he took a home-fed steer to them and did not get his beef back. He claimed they packaged and sold his beef over the counter, and gave him somebody else's beef. I don't know just how he knew that, but he claimed he knew it for a fact. Maybe knew somebody working there. I don't know.
What I do know is a buddy and I took two deer to them years ago and when we dropped them off at the back, there were numerous deer laying on the floor waiting to be processed. We watched them work for a little while and noticed they were grinding a bunch of burger ... I mean, many pounds. They actually told us that, when it came to burger, they threw everybody's venison together and ground it in large batches. They divided it up proportionately depending on the hanging weight of the deer you brought in. So, no way you were getting your own venison. Who knows how they handled the other cuts. Didn't ask and never went back.