Average doe 40lbs. Average buck 60. I've had 250lbs Mulie Bucks on the hoof (weighed) give 80lbs of boneless meat.
100lbs of meat off a deer is dreaming.
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Got 40lbs of a WT doe my daughter got this year. Cleaned it up pretty good I thought and was curious on the weight so I pulled the scale out. Ended up buying 50 pounds of pork picnic roasts from costco for less than half the price the butcher shop wanted for trim and made a pile of good sausage
I find a mature whitetail buck 50-60 lbs
Doe 40-50
Fawn as low as 12 lbs lol
Not sure about you guys grabbing 80-100 lbs
Pretty sure that would either be a big mule buck or your comprising the taste of the meat
I agree with you on these numbers and that's if you work hard to trim. I have cut up my own meat for years. I am picky though and don't take heart, liver, silverskin, fat or bones.
Based on my experience 65 lbs is about right for a adult whitetail shot through the ribs. I'm not sure where fellas are getting 100 lbs of meat from.....maybe leaving all the fat on or shooting particularly large bucks?
I typically get 25 lbs from a fawn and +/- 60 from a mature deer but I am VERY meticulous with removing all of the fat, silver and other junk from my meat. It sounds to me like you did a very good job of butchering it.
Agreed.
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Definitely depends on where the Deer was taken. Most of the ones I’ve seen in Cent AB would yield 40-60 lbs, but I personally got one a couple years ago near Keg River that yielded 105lbs. Got one there this year, 90 lbs. That’s no bones at all, meticulously butchered with no silver skin or fat, including wrapping and butcher string for the roasts.
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