how many pounds...

[Dustin07]

I'd be interested in knowing what the final weight of meat is on average for your deer. after boning, etc, just curious how many lbs on average of actual meat you guys harvest. if you could say what kind of deer it is as well as the weight that would be great   

[h20hunter]

Two average muleys qtrd was 190 bone in.....

[rtspring]

120 lbs all meat,  muley

[Jonathan_S]

107 lbs, all meat.  Whitetail.  Biggest 2x3 ever 

[lokidog]

54 pounds largest blacktail taken here.

57 pounds whitetail 4X4 WT Saskatchewan buck.

[coachcw]

60 on average

[jaymark6655]

96 with bone, 36 without

Probably would of had more if rib meat wasn't completly ruined and I thought an arrow would be better than a rifle in this area, guess I was wrong.

[scoyoc5]

60 on average

[Jonathan_S]

54 pounds largest blacktail taken here.

57 pounds whitetail 4X4 WT Saskatchewan buck.

57 lbs of meat on a Saskatchewan WT?  Is this like only the straps and quarters?

I take everything, I even scrape off with a sharp spoon and I almost always get 90 lbs of meat of a WT buck.  I've noticed that my carcasses have less meat than most hunters' though.  I also get a bunch more sausage out of mine 

Even on does, I've taken 50 lbs of meat.

[Dustin07]

what organs do you keep? (if any)

[elkaholic123]

120 lbs all meat,  muley

Must have been huge....I killed a huge muley and it weighed 164 lbs. of meat AND bones hanging at butcher.

[Hi-Liter]

I got a good size muley last weekend. It weighed 165lb hanging at the butcher.

[lokidog]

54 pounds largest blacktail taken here.

57 pounds whitetail 4X4 WT Saskatchewan buck.

57 lbs of meat on a Saskatchewan WT?  Is this like only the straps and quarters?

I take everything, I even scrape off with a sharp spoon and I almost always get 90 lbs of meat of a WT buck.  I've noticed that my carcasses have less meat than most hunters' though.  I also get a bunch more sausage out of mine 

Even on does, I've taken 50 lbs of meat.

I know, I was surprised as well.  Nice looking deer, the outfitter said he was only a 2 year old.  I take everything I can off of them.

what organs do you keep? (if any)

I only eat the heart but will sometimes save the liver for crab bait or give it to someone that will eat it.

[Jonathan_S]

I only eat the heart but will sometimes save the liver for crab bait or give it to someone that will eat it.

I misread this at first and though you said you use the heart for crab bait, I thought "WHAT?!"

The heart is tasty stuff, best sandwich meat.  I need to switch to bowhunting so I can stop destroying it though.   

[NRA4LIFE]

Biggest WT I ever killed yielded 108 lbs, all meat no bones.  The biggest muley was about 110-115 all boned out.  But those were HUGE deer.  The WT was 240 gutted (and yes, it was weighed).  That muley was probably close to 300 on the hoof.  It broke my portable meat pole.

[Dustin07]

I only eat the heart but will sometimes save the liver for crab bait or give it to someone that will eat it.

I misread this at first and though you said you use the heart for crab bait, I thought "WHAT?!"

The heart is tasty stuff, best sandwich meat.  I need to switch to bowhunting so I can stop destroying it though.   

yeah my buddies last one was completely destroyed as well, but kudos to him for an amazing shot 

[PolarBear]

If it is a buck from Vail, usually 10-15 pounds of meat after all the blood shot and bullet holes are cut out.

[Kowsrule30]

One of my MD weighed 212# at the butcher... Before I started cutting my own... Just meat and bone... No fore legs... He was a brute.... A bull elk 462# just meat and bones at a butcher... No fore legs... A BT I took into a butcher yeilded 44# of finished product and thought I was shorted some... Last one I ever took in...

Now cutting my own that I remember.... A spike elk produced 123# of boneless meat....(lost @ 20+- # from a shoulder shot) A cow elk 198# boneless... A MD 110# boneless... BT 86# boneless.... Benchleg 98# boneless... Farm fed WT 111# boneless... These are just some of the heavier ones I remember... A yearling BT doe left me with 32# boneless... She sure looked a lot bigger through the sights of the muzzy...

[Dustin07]

One of my MD weighed 212# at the butcher... Before I started cutting my own... Just meat and bone... No fore legs... He was a brute.... A bull elk 462# just meat and bones at a butcher... No fore legs... A BT I took into a butcher yeilded 44# of finished product and thought I was shorted some... Last one I ever took in...

Now cutting my own that I remember.... A spike elk produced 123# of boneless meat....(lost @ 20+- # from a shoulder shot) A cow elk 198# boneless... A MD 110# boneless... BT 86# boneless.... Benchleg 98# boneless... Farm fed WT 111# boneless... These are just some of the heavier ones I remember... A yearling BT doe left me with 32# boneless... She sure looked a lot bigger through the sights of the muzzy...

excellent summary, thanks 

that 462 is about enough to motivate you to invest in your own gear and processing at home huh? lol.

[baldopepper]

I've mentioned it on another thread, but several years ago a major sporting goods dealer in Utah ran a ""Heaviest Deer" contest for about 5 years.  Winner was always between 260-270 lbs. field dressed (Legs still on). Just to let you know how big these deer were, the "widest spread" contest usualy took from 38" to 40" to win.  My brother shot one several years ago that weighed in at 257 lbs. field dressed with legs off.  By far the biggest deer any of our group had ever seen. Usable meat , as other have already said, really depends on how it is cut up.

[Kowsrule30]

One of my MD weighed 212# at the butcher... Before I started cutting my own... Just meat and bone... No fore legs... He was a brute.... A bull elk 462# just meat and bones at a butcher... No fore legs... A BT I took into a butcher yeilded 44# of finished product and thought I was shorted some... Last one I ever took in...

Now cutting my own that I remember.... A spike elk produced 123# of boneless meat....(lost @ 20+- # from a shoulder shot) A cow elk 198# boneless... A MD 110# boneless... BT 86# boneless.... Benchleg 98# boneless... Farm fed WT 111# boneless... These are just some of the heavier ones I remember... A yearling BT doe left me with 32# boneless... She sure looked a lot bigger through the sights of the muzzy...

excellent summary, thanks 

that 462 is about enough to motivate you to invest in your own gear and processing at home huh? lol.

I have a decent set up... Nothing all that exspensive... The main thing is to get a decent grinder.... It will save your ass... For the first 3 or 4 years I used a hand grinder.... Don't know wth I was thinking...     The cutting part is easy imo... Just get a few good fillet knives and a sharpener... I bought the Rapala kit for less then $50 I think.... Been using it for years... And big cutting boards....

[Bantams]

Blacktail bucks - 70# boneless meat (not including several pounds of trim for dogs).  My buck last year weighed in at 114# hanging at the butcher.
Blacktail doe - 40# boneless.

[Blacktail Sniper]

If it is a buck from Vail, usually 10-15 pounds of meat after all the blood shot and bullet holes are cut out.

 

[Chesapeake]

Dont know bonned for most of our deer, but one large muley we packed out was 60# boned.

We cut and wrap all our own and weigh all of them. Even break it down into quarters sometimes. We staple our tags on the wall and we write the cut and wrap weight on the tag. We have around 10 years worth of tags on the wall from 5 or so guys (primarily my Dad and I). More than 20 elk and more than 20 deer.

Per my memory:

Elk go from 130 to 160#, though we've had a calf go 60# and a previously wounded one with hoof rot go 95#.
Blacktail run 25-35#
Mule deer 30 to 45#
 
A good elk will get you 15 to 20# of backstrap steaks.

We've weighed some critters in the round. The elk we've killed in SW Washington tend toward 280- 320# range for an average 3-5 year old. Seems like half is what you get back in cut and wrap from an elk in the round.

If you take it to a butcher shop who just cuts it off the bone and then steaks it out like it was beef leaving all the silver flesh and sinew, or even just saws it up like a beef bone in, then you would get quite a bit more in weight back. But what you actualy ate wouldnt weigh any more.

44# of finished from a BT sounds just right for a large mature buck. I'd bet that included the fat they added to the burger, so was actualy a few pounds over the actual deer meat cut and wrap weight. They likely didnt trim too much either, and ground all the tendon and sinew in the burger. Standard butcher shop stuff.





 

[blacktailcody]

39 30 and 55 all blackies.

[bobcat]

We just got right at 50 pounds from my cousin's average sized 2 point blacktail. We did all the cutting ourselves, boned out completely and trimmed off 99% of everything that wasn't meat. Part of the shoulder was lost too, since he shot it in the shoulder and ruined part of it.

[Mr.T]

All MD - bone in

2010 - 145
2011 - 198
2012 - 158

[chad s.]

Pacific Crest Mountain Mule Deer for us "bone in":
Smallest-85lbs
Most 105-120
Big Boys are always around 145

[sirmissalot]

Jeez some of you must hunt some well fed deer. My blacktails average around 60 pounds of meat. Mule deer I have got 90-100 lbs.

[Chesapeake]

I always think the same thing..... I've been involved in several of these threads on different boards.

I've butchered tons on animals, literaly!!! Either my scales have all been broken, or the internet adds 50 to 100 pounds pluss.

These folks did a study, I suspect their scales were good...... Wyoming has small elk I guess. Deer percentages of yield should be similar. Thier figures match very well with mine.

http://www.wyomingextension.org/agpubs/pubs/B594R.pdf

[geobru]

Small blacktails will field dress at about 120 to 130, which yields 50 to 60 pounds.  I've killed two 4x4 blacktails that each yielded 120 pounds of boned meat into the freezer.  They were each over 200 pounds field dressed.  They were BIG bodied deer!