How much meat (buck)

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How much meat you think I'll get out of a single buck? Let's say average size, whatever that may be. Roughly lbs. After everything's butchered and made up, like sausages, chops, pepperettes, etc..
 
depends on location and type of deer, and shot placement, I have seen my fair share of front quarters destroyed from bad shots.
 
Yup, depends on the deer, type ect
I'll say in BC, 40 to 120 lbs.
Deer would be sitka on the light end, high country mulies on the higher end.
 
+1 to all posts above. The smallest deer I've shot was small enough to easily drag with one hand and load into a pickup. The biggest took 2 of us to get into the same pickup. Both having been field dressed.

Your boneless meat yield will be somewhat less than half of the walking-around weight of the animal.
 
i am thinking the first doe I took I got about 40lbs maybe? 20 which was the min for sausage and pepperettes and still some steaks and ground beef left.
I could lift the doe myself onto the trailer but it was heavy and I had to pull up the front then rear legs to get it on before gutting. I wouldn't say it was a really big doe either.
 
average white tail meat buck 1-2 years old 75 lb on the hook and 50 lbs meat
average mulie meat buck 85 lb on hook and 60 lb meat
 
Tikkam65 said:
average white tail meat buck 1-2 years old 75 lb on the hook and 50 lbs meat
average mulie meat buck 85 lb on hook and 60 lb meat
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Wow, those are some small average mulies in yer nec o the woods :(
The last young 2 pt mulie I took in (have butcher receipt in my hand) was 147 on the hook with no legs, hide or head. 50 lbs burger and 38 lbs roasts/steaks.
The biggest mulie I've taken in resides on my wall and was a bruiser at 204 skinned, de-legged, head on.
Iirc it was in the 130lbs of meat ballpark.
Guess it depends where you are and what "kind" of muile you got in your area.
I don't have a clue on white tail, not many around where I am but ones I've seen look pretty much same general size as the local mulies, which grow pretty big around my area.
 
From a large doe - perfectly trimmed of all fat and bone and undesirable tendons, we get 60lbs in the freezer.
Largest buck that I've shot gave us 100lbs of perfectly trimmed meat and 25lbs of fat/gristle/tendons - which I ground coarse and made big meat balls to freeze for the dog.
I've shot young bucks that would only give 50 lbs of meat.
 
The lesson here: deer vary an awful lot!

The big mule buck that I shot would have been a little over 200 with his guts out. My good friend shot one about 6 or 7 years ago that was huge in body... he was like a small elk.

My first year hunting I shot 2 whitetail does in the same day. The smaller of the two was maybe 100lbs walking around. Not too much lighter than my girlfriend at the time though!
 
45ACPKING said:
Yup, depends on the deer, type ect
I'll say in BC, 40 to 120 lbs.
Deer would be sitka on the light end, high country mulies on the higher end.
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I think you are on the very light end. largest Deer I have been involved with in BC was a mulie that scored 184 and change and is in the book. front quarters were 75lbs and rears were 65lbs dressed.

I took just the two front quarters from my small (to me) whitetail from the south okanagan to the butcher and got 65lbs of meat back.

I would say the 120lb estimate would be average for a smaller 4 point buck

It really depends on where you hunt as size can vary drastically
 
Brian46 said:
I think you are on the very light end. largest Deer I have been involved with in BC was a mulie that scored 184 and change and is in the book. front quarters were 75lbs and rears were 65lbs dressed.

I took just the two front quarters from my small (to me) whitetail from the south okanagan to the butcher and got 65lbs of meat back.

I would say the 120lb estimate would be average for a smaller 4 point buck

It really depends on where you hunt as size can vary drastically
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Yup, I wouldn't argue with ya there ;)
 
I took just the two front quarters from my small (to me) whitetail from the south okanagan to the butcher and got 65lbs of meat back.
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I took just a broken tine and the left testicle off a northern AB white tail to the butcher and got 100lb's of smoked ham and porterhouse steak back...
 
worst thing down here is where the deer live it makes packing meat out very difficult an whole carcass is rare unless you spotlight on the fringe late at night, we don't have the rules and regs like you guys do, so we can be more selective and more often out there an take multiple deer, ya know so its different.

although I really need to know how to butcher the deer up more, say with using the back legs for steaks??

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I shot my heaviest whitetail buck, in 2001, here in NS. He field dressed 210 lbs.
I left him on the scales, so when the head, hide and legs were removed, the carcass weighed 166 lbs.
After all the meat was removed, the skeleton weighed 68 lbs.
Therefore, 98 lbs of boneless venison.
 
If processed by "butcher shop", 1/3 dressed weight.
If processed yourself, a little more.......You will/can take more time to trim out extra meat.
 
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