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Originally Posted by oldgutpile
My Zama bull was figured as an eight year old as well. We ran both the head and the hide seperately over certified scales at my meat shop. The head weighed in at 162 lbs, and the hide was 168 lbs. Thicknes of the hide around the neck and shoulders is easily 2 inches.
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Ya, it's pretty humbling when you get up beside one of these creatures dead on the ground and you realize that just the head and hide weigh more than all the meat and antlers from a boned out elk.
The size of the gut pile still blows me away as well. It's literally a mountain of guts!