Actual Weight of Meat - Can we be honest?

[Nick87]

Both rib rolls and neck roasts will weigh about what a hind quarter weighs. So you can add 50-70lbs to your total there. Well, less if your total included neck roasts.

I did have neck roasts. I didn't take a whole lot of time with them but buckled off quite a bit.

 

[ImBillT]

I did have neck roasts. I didn't take a whole lot of time with them but buckled off quite a bit.

I haven’t weighed it separately, but I bet the neck roasts make up a substantial portion of my trim bag’s weight on a bull or buck.

 

[Nick87]

I haven’t weighed it separately, but I bet the neck roasts make up a substantial portion of my trim bag’s weight on a bull or buck.

For certain it did in mine.

 

[ImBillT]

Didn’t weigh the head or cape, but this year’s mule deer was 122lbs bone in. That’s quarters, backstraps, tenderloins, rib rolls neck roasts and heart. No way I could have packed that very far in a single load.

 

[WildWill]

Didn't get a carcass weight but one of the smallest deer I've ever killed and definitely the smallest I've weighed. Only got just over 18lbs of deboned meat with everything except the heart I did loose a good hunk of a shoulder to damage.

 

[Wild Bill]

Didn't get a carcass weight but one of the smallest deer I've ever killed and definitely the smallest I've weighed. Only got just over 18lbs of deboned meat with everything except the heart I did loose a good hunk of a shoulder to damage.View attachment 355973

I had one of those a few weeks ago. New stand, first light, didn’t have any idea of ranges. Two fawns walk down the trail under my stand. New personal best smallest deer. I had no idea how small it was until I walked up to it.

 

[Maverick1]

Youth hunter shot a doe fawn first week of October. Deboned the entire animal - final tally was 12 pounds of meat. And that was for everything: backstraps, loins, hind quarters, front shoulders, neck meat. Didn't do the rib cage - not enough meat to make it worthwhile.

Adult doe, third week of October: 52 pounds of deboned meat.

 

[noharleyyet]

The deboned combined weight of my and Ken Jr’s cows was 373 lbs from the processor. Im assuming that includes the 20% fat added to the burger. They were both similar good sized cow elk.