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Okay, I realize there is variation between individual deer. Let's put it this way- say you're going on a meat hunt to Wyoming. Two people, with four doe tags each. The tags are good for either species. If you came home with eight deer, would you be likely to have significantly more boned out meat if you killed eight doe mule deer versus eight doe whitetail deer?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Quote from: bobcat on November 22, 2013, 05:45:56 PMOkay, I realize there is variation between individual deer. Let's put it this way- say you're going on a meat hunt to Wyoming. Two people, with four doe tags each. The tags are good for either species. If you came home with eight deer, would you be likely to have significantly more boned out meat if you killed eight doe mule deer versus eight doe whitetail deer?Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI think on average you can count on getting 50-60 pounds of boneless meat off of mature mule deer does, and about 40-50 on mature whitetail does. I personally think the whitetails are a little better eating, but if you are going to make it into burger, pepperoni, etc then I wouldn't worry about it.
I have shot alot of Mule deer. The mule deer I just shot in New Mexico was the smallest mule deer I have ever seen (body size). The world record mule deer (Antlers) was killled there. I had an article years ago about a 560 lb white tail. It was in the mid west. Generaly the white tail are smaller. I got to see some mounts that the locals had in their homes while I was there. HOLY Mule deer Batman. One was over 250 " Many over 200" I will be going back. They eat dry Dry DRY DRY feed all day. Best tasting deer I have ever eaten. I was thinking about eating mesquite and grease wood my self. The deer all looked like they just got back from Jean Juaraze Salon.