Blacktail bucks don't weigh squat

[Bigshooter]

I have killed a couple bulls the smallest was 350lbs the biggest was 380lbs.

[Idabooner]

Food for thought when you guys are talking about what you get at the butcher, charts, etc.

1. Butchers make more money the more the deer weighs.
2. You get x amount of meat back and you plug it into a chart, remember that anywhere from %15-30 of that weight might come from pork or beef talo or meat added in.
3.Guides, outfitters, and butchers make their living by satisfied customers.  They love to inflate scores and weights to boost your egos to make you feel good about yourself.  They will never say, ooooh thats a scrawny one.

[bucklucky]

I dont use a butcher.

[Dman]

 My cousin, who has been my hunting partner for 15 years has also been a meat Dept. manager and butcher for 16 years. -From the horses mouth; they add maybe 5-8% beef, or pork fat to venison, you can compare it to 8% hamburger in the store and it is actually leaner. I'm sure some butcher's may add more than that, but to me, that's too much, defeats the purpose of harvesting lean venison, so the folk's I have used don't add much.

[Palmer]

The Butcher I go to weighs it as soon as you take it out of your truck.  Its fully cleaned, skinned, beheaded, and I figure the weight I'm told is 60% weight on the hoof.  Now I don't know how accurate his weights are but I'm not entering a contest.  I'm just happy to know if its a big one.

[billythekidrock]

3.Guides, outfitters, and butchers make their living by satisfied customers.  They love to inflate scores and weights to boost your egos to make you feel good about yourself.  They will never say, ooooh thats a scrawny one.

Well said!. This is a huge one. I see it all the time with bears. "The guide said it was over .... lbs" "We couldn't weight it, but the outfitter said it was bigger then the one that weighed ..." 

All about keeping egos inflated and customers coming back.

[Bigshooter]

Maybe some of you go by what the butcher just tells you.  But when you see it hanging from the scale, you know how much it really weighed.  Also I did not know that the butcher was try to satisfie us with inflated weights.  I all weighs hope it weighs a lot less than i think it weighs.  $$$$$$$$$  Then I would be really satisfied. 

[Wea300mag]

Everytime I go away for the weekend the blacktails gain either 50 or 100 more pounds.

[jackelope]

here's my question...you guys that take your deer to the butchers...do you get burger made out of all of it?? that would be the only meat getting pork added to it. i know that my deer, processed by me, bones picked clean by me, without anything added to it, in my cooler, i can toss the cooler around pretty easy, but i've never weighed it...maybe 80-90lbs total..??

[Dman]

  For myself I get 1/3 cuts, 1/3 burger and 1/3 jerky and usually. Adding 6-10% fat to your 1/3 of your meat isn't much. Your talking between 3-5lbs of fat mixed in total.