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Originally Posted by smith88
I did some looking on the internet. The University of Wyoming did a study and they found that an elk give 50% of the field dressed weight back in boneless meat. Field dressed weight is gutted and legs removed but with head and skin on. They found head and skin weighs 73lbs. So 73lbs + 168lbs (boneless meat from a 2.5 year old elk) = 241lbs so that leaves 94lbs for the skeleton because they found a 2.5 year old bull is 337lbs average.
So my elk weighed 323lbs on the with no head or skin. So according to this study there should have been 239lbs of boneless meat. I received half of that.
http://www.wyomingextension.org/agpubs/pubs/B594R.pdf |
As stated before, I have cut up more than 30 bull elk and have not come even close to this percentage of boneless meat vs hanging weight after trimming fat and other non edible stuff. I have received 240 lbs from bulls that were about 500 lbs hanging. (In my part of the world those are large mature elk, scoring over 320")