How many lbs of elk meat have you gotten?

[D-Rock425]

my 08 cow was 330 hanging.  this years was 273

[Tony 270WSM]

Got ZERO pounds of meat from my '09 elk. Didn't get one...

[LittleJohn]

Montana 6x6 was 346 lbs bones out meat. The butcher in Mont didn't believe we got it all off one elk. The coyotes don't like me much when I'm done

[WAPITIHUNTER]

Winston cow Butcher Weight was 367 pounds hanging whole. Another Mossyrock cow was 350 pounds hanging whole. whole as in cut in half after removing head, guts, hide and legs from joint down.

6x6 Cascade Roosevelt hung same as above at 415 pounds.

6x6 Cascade Roosevelt from this year quartered and boned out was 363 pounds. Hanging as above according to the butcher would have been in the 420-440 range.

Joe from Rainier Archery killed a 6x6 Cascade Roosevelt that hung quartered at 505.

The Biggest bull Mt View Meats ever weighed was 570 pounds hanging weight before deboning. x10

[WAPITIHUNTER]

Montana 6x6 was 346 lbs bones out meat. The butcher in Mont didn't believe we got it all off one elk. The coyotes don't like me much when I'm done

Good for you. Taking "ALL" the meat is awesome! I am shocked at how many hunters do not debone the ribcage. They are leaving a load of meat when they do.

The scavengers don't like me much neither.

[LittleJohn]

An outfitter brought in 4 elk while I was at the butcher in Montana. I was shocked!!! He had 4 quarters cut off the carcass with the hide on and the backstraps-tenders. NO neck meat and no rib meat I sleep better when it is all in my freezer.

[Kowsrule30]

My Cowichie 6 point weighed in at 463#... At the butcher in Little Naches.. That's minus head, hide, legs at joint, and of course guts..... The neck weighed 49# by itself!!! Weighed the head with cape and antlers for *censored*s and giggles..... 105#.... I carried that out 7.5 mi with the ML and my pack that clocks in normally around 37#.... 

[jdb]

you killed it at dome peak and carried it 7.5 miles where the heck did you park?

[Dr. Death]

5x6 Roosey, shot on the Oly Pennisula, 573 # hanging at Farmer Georges. I thought mine was huge, until a guy I know shot a heavier one out of the same herd. Hung it at Farmer Georges also....

[Tim]

+1 on Farmer Georges they have always trated me right

[Chesapeake]

I dont believe alot of you guys.

We hang, weigh, and butcher all our own.

Biggest in the last 9 years out of about 20 elk is 150# +/- cut and wrap.
Smallest was a bull calf at 61# +/- cut and wrap.
Throw out the calf and the average SW Washington elk (these are all from Mt Adams, Washougal, and Longview area) is about 135# cut and wrap. Hang weight of field dressed carcass is right at 300#.

This year my cow (I'd say 3.5 year old, maybe 4.5) gave out 128# cut and wrap.

In that mix is some very large Lead Cows and 2 very mature bulls (6x6 and 6X5.)

[270Shooter]

you killed it at dome peak and carried it 7.5 miles where the heck did you park?

[NWBREW]

Got ZERO pounds of meat from my '09 elk. Didn't get one...

 

[Axle]

I dont believe alot of you guys.

google 'how much elk weigh'.

A deer-like animal will give 25 to 40 percent of live weight in meat. 25 percent when they are young, 40 percent when they are bigger and older. I know this from experience and from working in a slaughter house.

I would rather put this in a new thread........and this is 'hear-say' but here goes...

A guy by the name of Tom who owned 'fish'n Tom's tackle' told me that the gamies darted a bull elk on long Island (and this was in the '90s). He said they measured the rack and according them - it would be the state record if harvested - and that it weighed in excess of 1500 lbs. He said their scale only went up to 1500 lbs.

Again, this is hear-say. For those of you from Rio Linda - this is what he told me.

I believe him. Why? Because the very next year, Long Island was spike or cow only. The game departme.......oops.....the 'Wildlife department', didn't want any archers to shoot their big bull. Their stupid regs kept me from the island from then on.

Does anyone have info on this to back up Tom's story?

[jrebel]

hanging weight of my cow two years ago was 273 poundd.  I suppose I probably got 180 lbs or so of processed meat???