Best Deer Processors in Jonestown, PA
The 15 best-rated deer processors in and around Jonestown, Lebanon County: 1 in Jonestown itself and the rest within about 20 miles. Shops in town come first, then each group is ranked by Google rating weighted by review count, state program participation and distance.
How we rank: a Google rating with fewer reviews counts for less than one with many; shops on the 2026 state program lists, HSH partners and CWD cooperators get a small boost; farther shops get a small penalty per mile. Shops in town are listed ahead of nearby ones. Nobody pays for placement. Details
processors
Mease Meats, Inc.
Sadler's Custom Butchering
M.E. Bell, Inc.
Bur-Pak Family Foods
Mease Meats Retail Store
Sensenig's Deer Processing And Market
Horst Butcher Shop llc
Lighthouse Meats
Kings Butcher Shop
Mountain Meadows Butchering LLC
Brown's Deer Processing
Twin Pines Custom Meats
Sensenig Butchering
Moore Supply Co. - Across the Valley
Deer processing in and around Jonestown
Hunters around Jonestown have 1 processor in town and 14 more shops within about 20 miles. The nearby shops are in Myerstown (7 mi), Grantville (11 mi), Richland (11 mi) and Pine Grove (12 mi). Deitzler's Butcher Shop leads the ranking with a 4.2 average from 5 Google reviews. Bur-Pak Family Foods has the most reviews (91, averaging 4.7).
Mease Meats, Inc., Sadler's Custom Butchering, Twin Pines Custom Meats and 2 more take Hunters Sharing the Harvest donations. Mease Meats, Inc., Sadler's Custom Butchering, M.E. Bell, Inc. and 2 more are on the Game Commission's CWD cooperating processor list, approved for proper disposal of high-risk parts. For late drags out of the woods, Mountain Meadows Butchering LLC and Twin Pines Custom Meats offer after-hours or 24/7 drop-off.
Specialty work advertised by shops on this list: jerky (6 shops), fresh sausage (5 shops), snack sticks (4 shops) and smoked products (4 shops). Beyond deer, you can bring bear (Bur-Pak Family Foods). No shop here publishes a base price online, so ask for the standard deer rate and any add-ons when you call.
Jonestown is in Lebanon County, in the PGC Southeast Region. Region at a glance: Lancaster, Berks and the Philadelphia suburbs, where special-regulation areas and farmland deer keep processors busy. Other Lebanon County towns with listed processors: Lebanon and Myerstown. Rifle season fills coolers fast on opening weekend, so call before you head out.
Drop-off checklist
- Tag it right away. Tag the deer immediately after harvest and before you move it. The tag goes on the ear and stays there until the deer is processed.
- Field dress and cool fast. Remove entrails, drain the cavity and get the deer cold. In warm weather, pack the cavity with bagged ice.
- High-risk parts go in the trash. New for 2026-27: you can move a deer anywhere, but once it leaves the kill site the head, backbone and spleen must go out with commercial trash. A processor handles that for you.
- Report within 10 days. Online, by phone at 1-800-838-4431, or with the digest report card.
Hunters Sharing the Harvest
Drop a legally harvested deer at a participating processor and the venison goes to Pennsylvania food banks. Program sponsors usually cover the processing; confirm with the shop.
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