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Originally Posted by calgarychef
Maybe the butcher didn’t “short” anyone. It could be that he just throws away a lot, which isn’t acceptable either but it’s not like theft.
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I agree, that's possible.
45% of rail weight is probably average.
Sounds like you got a bit less than that, which could be a couple of good cuts went to the "house" pile or a bunch of poor ones went to scraps.
Nothing wrong with learning from someone with experience, but teaching yourself to butcher by just doing it is really very easy.
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390 pounds of deboned meat off an elk...
Those are incredibly Huge elk.
I'm not sure of the accuracy of my memory, but I recall there being some debate if the Wainwright herd are the Manitoban subspecies, the largest bodied elk.