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Owatonna Cabellas might be interested in buying your full body mount if you saved it. You might have killed the biggest wild deer in MN for 2020. That, or your butcher is up-charging you...113 pounds of boned out and fat removed meat. Opening day of archery buck in MN.
We got 101 pounds boned out, ready to package meat off of one of the bucks killed this year on our farm. I don't doubt 113 on a northern deer. I won a big buck contest in MN a few years ago with a field dressed 246# buck that I got 110 pounds of meat off of. The rack didn't match the body but it was still a dandy.Owatonna Cabellas might be interested in buying your full body mount if you saved it. You might have killed the biggest wild deer in MN for 2020. That, or your butcher is up-charging you...
Owatonna Cabellas might be interested in buying your full body mount if you saved it. You might have killed the biggest wild deer in MN for 2020. That, or your butcher is up-charging you...
I’m definitely incredulous of that weight.We process ourselves. Not sure why people don’t get more than they do out of an animal. Perhaps leave more waste. We don’t weigh all of our deer but have gotten around that much off our bigger bucks before. We don't keep the liver, but we don't leave a scrap of meat on there for the coyotes. Don't have a pic of what this one looked like after processing, but here is a pic of the moose we got last year as it was nearing completion. Pretty typical of how they look at the end of the process. The other picture attached is a much larger body deer that we passed up a few times this year.
Catching up on this thread reading it backwards, and thought, those whitetails must be from Minnesota, sure enough. Huge bodies out there, saw a couple does hanging and they looked like small steers.Here are a couple pics from a different buck that I recall had a similar meat yield. Unfortunately the one is out of focus, but you can still see it was 225 lbs field-dressed.
Here are a couple of references where others have had similar findings for whitetails:
Deer Weight Chart
www.pgc.pa.gov
How Much Meat is On 1 Deer? | Deer & Deer Hunting
Here is a simple formula for estimating the live weight of a deer, and also insights on how much meat you can expect to get back from the butcher.www.deeranddeerhunting.com
Per the second reference, the "ideal" meat weight would be just over 113 pounds for the deer in the pics. The deer in question had no meat loss due to the arrow wound, and we are very meticulous about getting every piece of meat, so I would expect close to the ideal yield.
No doubt deer in different areas will have different distributions. I can say that there is never a shortage of food for the deer in our area, even in winter, so they have the resources needed to grow large.
Man given your pics I thought it would be more than your average CO elk... huh... weird2022 Bull Moose
463 pounds bone in quarters plus backstraps, tenderloin loin and all neck/side meat etc boned out went to processor.
360 pounds came back (added zero fat to burger and no sausage or other specialty things added, just a straight cut/wrap.
I'm assuming you meant to be sarcastic, but no emojis so I can't tell.Man given your pics I thought it would be more than your average CO elk... huh... weird