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Dressed weight on the table. Bucks, mine have ranged from 40# to supersized at 74#. Does 35# to 40#, for older does. Young of the year 20# to 25#. Wifes doe with slight spots = cookie sheet at best but it was all tender loin.
 
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You’re eating a lot of tendons. ;:;barf

it’s better to have 25-40 lbs of really great venison than 40-60 lbs of venison tainted by bitter and inedible fibers that you’re fighting with every bite.
 

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Dressed weight on the table. Bucks, mine have ranged from 40# to supersized at 74#. Does 35# to 40#, for older does. Young of the year 20# to 25#. Wifes doe with slight spots = cookie sheet at best but it was all tender loin.
What meat don’t you save? You just cutting tendons out and saving the rest?
 

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Silver skin in the sausage grind does not bother me. Fat or tallow does. Not throwing away 10# of venison for a fraction of silver skin. Do trim the silver skin from loins and roast though.
 


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I got 30 pounds of ground and about 40 pounds of whole meat (including shanks for stewing/osobucco) off my buck this weekend.
 

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70+ pounds of deer meat off of 1 deer seems to be a huge stretch. you guys must keep everything but the bones. I've never had more than 50 off of a large muley buck.
 

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70 lbs off one deer I would like to see the meat. there is not going to be very good any thing. I got 35 mpg with my 77 ford pick-up this weekend deer hunting.LOL
 

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70+ pounds of deer meat off of 1 deer seems to be a huge stretch. you guys must keep everything but the bones. I've never had more than 50 off of a large muley buck.
I agree . Seems like my weighed game bag from my Montana mule buck every year is between 45-55 lbs
 

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About the most ive ever got out of a single deer.
Maybe 40-45, at most 50lbs of meat.
Was a JFK head shot Muley and by far the tastiest deer ive ever had in 30 years of hunting.
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I call major BS on getting 70 pounds of boned out, cleaned up meat from a deer. I mean MAYBE from a huge mule deer but I'd still be damn skeptical.
 

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Last year I got 72 lbs trimmed off a White tail buck. The year before I got 63 lbs trimmed off a White tail doe. My carcasses are pretty dang clean when they hit the garbage.
 

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Steve Rinella has inspired me to take rib meat and not be so gosh darned picky overall. Think about it, I usually like each and every type of ring sausage I've tried from a processor and we all know they aren't trimming much of anything off. Don't get me wrong, my meat ends up being fairly red. I have 25lbs of ready-to-grind trim off my buck's fronts and some miscellaneous trim. On the other hand, this first-cutting yielded about 7lbs of discard. To this I will add 25lbs of pork butt and make a 50lb batch of ring sausage. I expect around 45lbs from the back quarters, back straps, and some more miscellaneous trim. Due to the larger muscle groups, this meat will be cleaner/redder by default and much of it will be left whole and/or used for jerky. So overall I expect to yield about 70lbs of meat off of a 2 year old buck. I'm still slow though as I think it took me about 2 hours last night to do what I did thus far and I expect to spend another 2 hours tonight finishing the job.
 
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Steve Rinella has inspired me to take rib meat and not be so gosh darned picky overall. Think about it, I usually like each and every type of ring sausage I've tried from a processor and we all know they aren't trimming much of anything off. Don't get me wrong, my meat ends up being fairly red. I have 25lbs of ready-to-grind trim off my buck's fronts and some miscellaneous trim. On the other hand, this first-cutting yielded about 7lbs of discard. To this I will add 25lbs of pork butt and make a 50lb batch of ring sausage. I expect around 45lbs from the back quarters, back straps, and some more miscellaneous trim. Due to the larger muscle groups, this meat will be cleaner/redder by default and much of it will be left whole and/or used for jerky. So overall I expect to yield about 70lbs of meat off of a 2 year old buck. I'm still slow though as I think it took me about 2 hours last night to do what I did thus far and I expect to spend another 2 hours tonight finishing the job.

Clearly we're liars, though. No way anyone can get 70 pounds of meat off a white-tailed deer when it seems like 50 is the magic number. Moose, maybe. Deer, no way.

:::

I'm a firm believer that more beers does not yield more meat. I stay pretty sober during my carcass-butchering process, and it appears to result in a more filled freezer.

But what do I know. I'm just a schmuck on the Interweb.
 


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Early season 3 year old and older bucks will give you the most meat, before they have screwed them selfs to death. Older dry does are good to cause they have not had a coupla young one hanging on them all year.
 

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Clearly we're liars, though. No way anyone can get 70 pounds of meat off a white-tailed deer when it seems like 50 is the magic number. Moose, maybe. Deer, no way.

:::

I'm a firm believer that more beers does not yield more meat. I stay pretty sober during my carcass-butchering process, and it appears to result in a more filled freezer.

But what do I know. I'm just a schmuck on the Interweb.

Yea, I don't really care what they yield. People consume my products and still say the seemingly obligatory "I don't taste the deer/moose/elk/nutria/bear AT ALL!"

I've processed my own game for years now and weigh everything. FWIW I really like my Weighmax W-2809 90lb stainless steel digital postal scale. I really like the hold function as my Rubbermaid commercial bus totes cover most scale readouts.[h=1][/h]
 

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why do people not want to taste said game animal kinda defeats the purpose dont it
 

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I like the high shoulder shot for a variety of reasons. Doubt it will ever get me to 50 pounds of meat on a deer though.
 


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