This won't help for what you are looking for but here is the formula for converting live wieght to hog dressed weight.
2-year old bull = 44.62%
cow = 48.29%
2-4 year bull = 44.11%
cow = 45.87%
Mature bull = 42.15%
cow = 50.80%
Ihave hunted elk allmy life and I have never seen an instance where 440 pounds of hanging weight in quarters would only yeild less than 25 percent. Minimum should be 200 considering the fact that when they make burger they add 10 to 15 percent beef soot. Not including peperoni or sausage. If I...
Great story TK. Nothing like hunting with pops is there? Even though it always seems to go their way, those are great memories. Just wait, cause once you out hunt pops for the first time you'll see a grin you never seen before!
Tell pops congrats on a fine harvest.
just rolled in the door last Wednesday. My partner hooked up with a little 5x5 and I hooked up with a 6x6. No deer though. Seen a lot of bucks but just couldn't get close enough. oh well, always have extended season!
Just thought I would post a couple pics of my elk for the guys. Got back in town on the 24th after a few weeks hunting for elk and deer. We started out in a new area this year. My partner flew in on the 11th, and as luck would have it he was sicker than a dog when he arrived. We spent the next...
Just thought I would post a couple pics of my elk for the guys. Got back in town on the 24th after a few weeks hunting for elk and deer. We started out in a new area this year. My partner flew in on the 11th, and as luck would have it he was sicker than a dog when he arrived. We spent the next...
Dear Moosie:
Never fear as your passion for bugeling is near.
You're kicking back when life is dull, getting ready, for the next step to becoming a wise old bull.
No sense in rushing thru the woods and the sticks, wondering what the f--k is up with those little chicks.
The trick to the fever is...
Cameron Hunt:
I spend alot of my time over on the Penninsula in Roosevelt country, but the last few years have been heading a little more south of there. I do a lot of traveling to different honey holes I have learned over the years until I find one that is active and has a lot of sign.
Horsless in Seattle:
You engaged in this relationship years ago and it sounds like your partner has been faithful for quite some time. There are always going to be bumps in the road in any relationship and your bump just came sooner rather than later. In your case you're just not going to be...
Workin my a@@ off so I can afford to take a couple weeks off. Gonna have to combine my scouting time in with the hunt again this year.
Am tryin to talk my partner into hiking in 20 miles and goin after LONG HORN SILVER.
Let's make some pre hunt predictions this year guys. Let's get a list...
Bear Sniper:
You, as a resident of Idaho, have to apply for the tag through the state of Washington now.
The application fee is $325.00 nonrefundable and can be sent to:
Ray Capp
P.O. box 867 Bellingham, Wash. 98226
Sorry no personal checks accepted.
P.S. The drawing has been 100 percent draw...
Penn Woods turkey call #2 bar none!!
You better be ready to play in the big leagues cause things just seem to happen faster than one sometimes expects.
Outdoors: Cross-border meat ban fueled by mad cow disease
BOB MOTTRAM
The Tacoma News Tribune
July 9, 2003
Gary Hauenstein of Parkland started to get uneasy when he learned that U.S.
Customs was seizing sandwiches at the Canadian border.
He heard about it through Canadian truckers who said...
JJ Hack :
That looks like old three fingers to me!
You can bullshit a bullshitter but you can't bullshit me!! That particular cat has a lot of history behind it as it so happens I,ve got his other two!