meat to deer weight question

[Born2late]

So my brother shot a blacktail and we had to bone it out to get it home.He took it to the butcher and he weighed it and there was 90 pounds of meat and that was after trimming on site and cutting out the blood damaged shoulder.
My question is: If you have that much meat what is the approximate deer weight?Or has anyone ever kept track of that when boning one out at home?

This brings up a question about bears also but i'll start a different page for that.

[lokidog]

I have. I'll try to pu up the link to m archery deer this year.

That's a big deer!  My son's weighed only 80 pounds gutted... a ice size yearling for here.

[lokidog]

I guess I didn't detail it. 

I had 51 pounds of meat including heart and liver and he was 180 lb guts and all.  Having given this data, I have had deer with more meat that have weighed less overall. If I recall, my ratio is usually about 1/3 meat to full body weight.

[Born2late]

Thanks, Its hard to judge when they are lying up there because your guessed weight gets heavier the farther you pack it out.

[smalldog]

He is right, it is 3X the boned out weight of the deer. Absolutely no bones !

[fishnfur]

Google:

http://askthemeatman.com/how_to_estimate_deer_weights.htm

[Damnimissed]

I wish I would've weighed my biggest bodied BT. I got 106lbs of boned out, trimmed, ready to wrap meat. It really bothers me that I never weighted it field dressed. It was a really heavy revert 2 point.

[lokidog]

I wish I would've weighed my biggest bodied BT. I got 106lbs of boned out, trimmed, ready to wrap meat. It really bothers me that I never weighted it field dressed. It was a really heavy revert 2 point.

Dang, I shot a two year old cow elk once that I only got about that much out of her.....  I did shoot a N. Cal. Blacktail that dressed out at 165, though I did not weight the meat back then.

[robodad]

I weighed the carcass of my 2pt blacktail (no head, hide, guts or legs below the knees) this year at #100 and got #50 of cleaned pkgd meat excluding heart and liver. he was an average to smaller deer and no bloodshot loss !

https://goo.gl/photos/9vRTZwVHdbYDbtvR8

I guess this site doesn't open google photos so just click the link !!

[lokidog]

He is right, it is 3X the boned out weight of the deer. Absolutely no bones !

It's funny, it's the same for Dungeness crab.

[JDHasty]

100 lbs of boned meat.... I can make a pretty accurate guess.  One huge son of a gun. 

[lokidog]

Hanging weight on my son's buck this year was 80#, a decent forky yearling.  I was surprised at how much meat, 37 pounds, unless I counted my burger twice, then it would be 31.  I count the liver and heart weight. 

[OutHouse]

So my brother shot a blacktail and we had to bone it out to get it home.He took it to the butcher and he weighed it and there was 90 pounds of meat and that was after trimming on site and cutting out the blood damaged shoulder.
My question is: If you have that much meat what is the approximate deer weight?Or has anyone ever kept track of that when boning one out at home?

This brings up a question about bears also but i'll start a different page for that.

I agree with JDhasty. That deer would be in excess of 240 pounds if that was the weight of the meat alone. Why don't you send us a pic of the deer in the field. I'd like to see a pic of a deer that big.

[scrapperdude]

That's a big black tail, have only had one that big and it was an older 2 point 

[JDHasty]

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,202888.50.html

This one was just 110 lbs hanging. 

Head, hide, hocks off