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Live weight VS hanging weight
« on: January 24, 2012, 01:13:59 AM »
I'm curious what everyones opinion is on the percentage of weight you need to ad back on to a bear after it is gutted to estimate a live weight.  Any info would be greatly appreciated

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Re: Live weight VS hanging weight
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2012, 01:56:01 AM »
Why dont you weigh them before you kill em. Then they have all the blood and stuff in them. At least this way you wont have to do any of that stupid math stuff
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Re: Live weight VS hanging weight
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2012, 08:37:46 AM »
Since bait was banned itnis very hard to get them to stand still on the scale to get an accurate live weight. Bring back baitingnso we can know live weight of our bears!

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Re: Live weight VS hanging weight
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2012, 08:55:42 AM »
Hanging weight is actual and live weight is the lies we tell our hunting buddies about the "1K lb bull, 10x10 that was so close I saw his sphincter clamp shut when I breathed".
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Re: Live weight VS hanging weight
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2012, 09:34:07 AM »
Generally as a rule of thumb you lose about 50 percent when you remove guts, hide, legs and head. That's with any animal. Deer, elk, pigs, bear, etc...

Example, if you put meat and skeleton on a hanging scale and your animal is 150 lbs. Then it was right around 300 live. Ish! :tup:
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Re: Live weight VS hanging weight
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2012, 10:47:26 AM »
A gutted bear would be about 85% of its live weight, or so I have heard.

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Re: Live weight VS hanging weight
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2012, 10:52:26 AM »
Ish, remove the head legs and hide and you have hanging weight, roughly 50%
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Re: Live weight VS hanging weight
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2012, 12:22:25 AM »
I have heard the 50% thing for deer and bears before, but I have my questions about it.  Three years ago I shot a super old buck and the hanging weight was 187lbs.  That would make a 350+ lb mule deer?  Not sure about that one.  I just look at how much meat I get and that's enough for me.

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Re: Live weight VS hanging weight
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2012, 11:54:26 AM »
Wouldn't surprise me to see an old mature mule deer over 350 on the hoof. My buddy shot a whitetail this year that was 324 on the hoof. We weighed him whole on a slaughter truck that a rancher friend of mine had
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Re: Live weight VS hanging weight
« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2012, 04:10:30 PM »
I didn't think mule deer got that big, but I stand corrected!!  That old sucker was turned into all burger and peperoni.

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Re: Live weight VS hanging weight
« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2012, 05:55:44 PM »
Haha I bet!
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