How many pounds of edible meat on a Deer?

[Gottabow]

Does anyone have an estimate of how many pounds of Meat..just meat, do ya get from say a 130pound field dressed Deer.

[KOOK68]

Our marsh deer run around 110-120 pounds on the hoof, and I want to say we get 40-45 pounds of meat, less the back straps.

[Pete McMiller]

Depending on how good you are when trimming, how much you save for hamburger, etc. you might get 40% net boneless meat.  So your 130# field dressed deer might give you 50 lbs. of meat.

[Rob W.]

130 field dressed would equal about 70lbs. Thats wasting nothing though.

[Plumber]

my GUESS would be about 60-65 percent

[TooManyHobbies]

We've always figured 1/3 of live weight.

[Rob W.]

My guess was taken from Dennis Walrod's book Making the most of your deer.    

Pretty good read even for those of us that have butchered a bunch.


Rob

[bluegrassbowhunter]

I'm gonna say 35-40lbs of trimmed down boneless ready to eat meat..

[BOHO]

I was gonna guess about 40% of the live weight. guts and bones weigh a good bit

[Jason Kendall]

I just butchered my sons deer on Tuesday and it was a small 8 point. It weighed right at 110# w/o guts and we ended up with 40# of meat on the scale.

[ChristopherO]

I've butchered dozens of deer and found on average about 50%+/- boneless meat from a field dressed deer.

[MikeS]

Originally posted by ChristopherO:
I've butchered dozens of deer and found on average about 50%+/- boneless meat from a field dressed deer.

If it is not all shot up, that's the percentage I have found also.
Mike

[Roger Norris]

50% or so if cut properly. Remember too....many guy overestimate how big thier deer is. Not as a means of bragging, they are just lighter than you think.

When I was much younger, after dragging a medium sized doe about 2 miles (I got lost), I was sure it was a 130, 150# deer. The scale showed 90#.....  

[deaddoc4444]

About 8 pounds in the neck roast .  The rest is not edible    GIVE IT TO ME !!!

[roundbal]

Average sized deer 35%-45% of dressed weight. Big old deer (mature) 45%-55% of dressed weight. Just guestimates    I don't acutally weigh my deer unless it is a big buck and that has only happened a few times. They tend to get heavier after dragging them out of the mountains  

[koger]

100-110# doe, 35-45# of grind/backstraps, good buck of #150-160--65# grind/backstraps. I usually do 6-7 deer for my wife and I a year, and butcher 10-20 for my buddies, hellp them out, this is an average weight here in KY, over the last 20 years or so.

[Hopewell Tom]

On the back of the 2011 Nova Scotia Hunting regs. is  a couple of equations from Penn State University Dept.of Dairy And Animal Science and the Pennsylvania Game Commission Division of Research(man that was a painful bunch of typing!)

If we can believe these guys:

Live weight x 78% = Field dressed weight

Field dressed weight x 56.25% = Edible meat weight
(2.5% error)

[T Mowery]

Here is a neat little chart, that I found,Hope this helps.

ROW 1 GIRTH/INCHES
ROW 2 LIVE WT./POUNDSB
ROW 3 FIELD DRESSED/POUNDS
ROW 4 EDIBLE MEAT/POUNDS


24 55 38 28
25 61 43 27
26 66 49 30
27 71 53 31
28 77 59 34
29 82 64 36
30 90 70 93
31 98 74 42
32 102 80 45
33 110 87 50
34 118 91 54
35 126 99 57
36 125 104 61
37 146 115 66
38 157 126 71
39 169 135 74
40 182 144 80
41 195 156 88
42 210 170 94
43 228 182 103
44 244 198 110
45 267 214 120
46 290 233 130
47 310 251 139

[rraming]

There are formulas online for it, I have found before, it comes out to about 45% for deboned usable meat. 100lb deer is 45 lbs

[Gottabow]

Thanks guys, I was wondering..I figured pretty close but I wanted some other input..mucha abliged.