I had my meat ground by the guy who processed it. Then I borrowed a stuffer from a friend he bought it from Northern Tool and equipment professional grade he paid $ 200.00 I made six different meats and it did a good job heavy but good cabelas is too expensive I would get this one. Buy it with some firends as you only use it a few times. I also made meat balls for Italian cooking real good had some last night. 
First time making sausage I used seasoning from leggs breakfast sausage and Lem bought the Lem at Mills Fleet farm, used a receipe from my big game cook book for the sweet Italian sausage and the potato sausage which I added green pepper & sauerkraut. I made these so far
1. Breakfast sausage with sage
2. maple sausage with wild rice
3. Potato sausage
4. sweet Italian sausage
5. Meatballs got this from a cookbook
Going to make a couple more a Hot Italian sausage and a kielbasa sausage and some jerky with a jerky gun I have over ten lbs of ground meat left to make the other sausage takes a day to make each batch after you season it and let it set then stuff it. The potato sausage I made some into a meat loaf that was real good.
Pics of my finished sausage and the stuffer
