Actual Weight of Meat - Can we be honest?

[Deckerp]

My bulls quarters - bone in with lower leg removed were #56ish for the hinds and #35ish for the fronts.

 

[redandwhite_72]

Butchered a small whitetail buck this year. Ended with 11lbs for slicing, 11lbs ground for human consumption and 19lbs ground for dog food.

 

[AlaskaHunter]

For a Alaskan bull moose usually at least 500 pounds in the freezer.

 

[Hunting Wife]

Butchered a small whitetail buck this year. Ended with 11lbs for slicing, 11lbs ground for human consumption and 19lbs ground for dog food.

So wait…you fed half of your deer to the dog?

 

[AvidIndoorsman]

So wait…you fed half of your deer to the dog?

At least that post was honest

 

[Hunting Wife]

At least that post was honest

Touché

 

[redandwhite_72]

So wait…you fed half of your deer to the dog?

That's better than throwing it in the trash. She's gotta eat too. I'm not spending that much time trimming off all the silver skin and sinew. And I'm not taking it to a butcher and spending that kind of money on it. Besides, that's better for my dog than regular dog food.

 

[seeth07]

So wait…you fed half of your deer to the dog?

I keep processing more and more of my animal into dog food. I used to not take the heart, liver, kidneys. Now I do and turn them into dog food. I used to take all my trimmings and toss them away. Now I render them down into dog food. I'll admit that my trimming time has significantly gone down because I'm way more generous now knowing that I'm still making good use of it. I used to toss the legs from the knee down. Now I skin them to the hoof and cook them down into dog food.

Obviously some of this goes right out the window when I'm 2 miles in on an island in the Pacific Ocean but if I shoot a deer behind my house I do all of those things.

 

[nastynate]

Shot a trophy whitetail fawn last week and cut it up and weighed the meat.

About 4lb for 4 bone in shanks
About 6lb for the 2 bone in front quarters
7.5 lb boneless from hindquarters
2lb neck roast
3lb trim/grind
1lb femurs for stock.

I’d bet a hair under 20lb of boneless total.

 

[WildWill]

Just got done with a female javelina that was 34lb field dressed. Deboned the whole animal and ended up with just over 12lb of meat. After adding pork fat I'll end up with 15lb of chorizo.

 

[Bluffgruff]

Wyoming bull elk, 7-8 years old. Shot in spine, no shoulder meat lost, took 90% of rib meat, all the neck and brisket meat, only noticeable meat left behind was flank (got gut contaminated during butchering process, oops)

291lbs bone in.

 

[Pucky Freak]

My shot ruined the tenderloins, but the remaining meat off my button buck WT weighed 25.7 lbs.

 

[ALPPLA]

25lb rear qrtrs, 15lb front qrtrs, 40lbs in the bag. Indiana white tail

 

[Bluffgruff]

I took everything off this bison cow from the Henry Mountains of Utah except the spinal column and pelvis. I tried to tarp it in a pile to keep it dry and from freezing in the oncoming blizzard, which mostly worked for about 36h.

302.7lbs bone in, including ribs.