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Got my elk back from butcher...somethings fishy
Curly:
Did the bull have hoof rot by any chance? :dunno:
ghosthunter:
--- 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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You cannot compare East side elk with west side either. The west siders run a lot bigger in some areas.
Two big cows on east side were 170- 180 hanging on the butcher hook .
Cow I shot west side was 400 lbs on the butcher hook.
My east side spike ran 165 lbs on the butcher hook.
Just not the same thing. :twocents:
HUNTINCOUPLE:
Nice bull! :tup:
bobcat:
--- Quote from: Bob33 on January 20, 2015, 12:26:28 PM ---
--- 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.
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Depends what kind of quarters we're talking about. I'm pretty sure he said this was with no rib cage or backbone. I'd sure expect to get way more than 50% of the 190.
Just going by the size of the bull, it's definitely a big enough elk that I'd expect 150 pounds minimum. That's about what I got from a spike! A large mule deer can yield 73 pounds of meat, which is what he got from a relatively large bull elk!
A cow elk I got many years ago was 287 pounds of meat that we got back from the butcher, although if I remember correctly they did not completely debone the meat.
Bob33:
--- Quote from: bobcat on January 20, 2015, 12:39:55 PM ---
--- Quote from: Bob33 on January 20, 2015, 12:26:28 PM ---
--- 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.
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Depends what kind of quarters we're talking about. I'm pretty sure he said this was with no rib cage or backbone. I'd sure expect to get way more than 50% of the 190.
Just going by the size of the bull, it's definitely a big enough elk that I'd expect 150 pounds minimum. That's about what I got from a spike! A large mule deer can yield 73 pounds of meat, which is what he got from a relatively large bull elk!
A cow elk I got many years ago was 287 pounds of meat that we got back from the butcher, although if I remember correctly they did not completely debone the meat.
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If you're getting 150 pounds of meat from 190 pounds of quarters, you're doing far better than average.
I can guarantee that you won't get 287 pounds of meat from 190 pounds of quarters. ;)
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