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Got my elk back from butcher...somethings fishy

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Maverick:

--- Quote from: _TONY_ on January 19, 2015, 09:47:32 PM ---Wow, 3 months is a loooong time to wait to get your bull back. I wonder if something happened to your elk, and It took him a while to skim meat from other customers to replace the meat? Could be why you got so little back with cuts/burger that you didn't want and no tenderloins....Just a thought.

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I was wondering that myself?

krapmit:
THIS GUYS ORIGINAL POST DOESNT MAKE ANY SENSE :dunno:  ....HE SAID THE BULL IN QUARTERS WEIGHED 190 LBS...My 5x5 west side bull this year hung at 440lb. and I got a 59% return (260 lbs of meat back)  which is pretty good.  You're typically looking for 55-60% return on an animal.

WHY WOULD HIS 4 QUARTERS ONLY BE 190 LBS IN THE FIRST PLACE?

Timberstalker:

--- Quote from: krapmit on January 20, 2015, 11:45:42 AM ---THIS GUYS ORIGINAL POST DOESNT MAKE ANY SENSE :dunno:  ....HE SAID THE BULL IN QUARTERS WEIGHED 190 LBS...My 5x5 west side bull this year hung at 440lb. and I got a 59% return (260 lbs of meat back)  which is pretty good.  You're typically looking for 55-60% return on an animal.

WHY WOULD HIS 4 QUARTERS ONLY BE 190 LBS IN THE FIRST PLACE?

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This is a good point..........

Bob33:

--- Quote from: bobcat on January 19, 2015, 09:13:11 PM ---Wow! A bull like that... should have got twice as much meat back as what you got. A spike bull I got a few years ago was 160 pounds of mostly boned out meat. The only bone we packed out was the shoulders, which doesn't weigh much.

Unless your bull had a ton of blood shot meat or something, I don't see how you could get only 73 pounds of meat. 150 would be more like it.

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You're not going to get 150 pounds of meat out of 190 pounds of unbutchered elk quarters. About 50% is typical, which should be around 90 pounds. If some of the 90 was spoiled, bloodshot, or dirty then 73 could be reasonable.

pianoman9701:

--- Quote from: Timberstalker on January 20, 2015, 12:18:03 PM ---
--- Quote from: krapmit on January 20, 2015, 11:45:42 AM ---THIS GUYS ORIGINAL POST DOESNT MAKE ANY SENSE :dunno:  ....HE SAID THE BULL IN QUARTERS WEIGHED 190 LBS...My 5x5 west side bull this year hung at 440lb. and I got a 59% return (260 lbs of meat back)  which is pretty good.  You're typically looking for 55-60% return on an animal.

WHY WOULD HIS 4 QUARTERS ONLY BE 190 LBS IN THE FIRST PLACE?

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This is a good point..........

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Boned out?

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