RE: Where are the tenderloins?
A few years back when I was being taught how to bone a deer by a good friend who just happens to be a butcher, taught me that when field dressing the deer to be careful not to take out the layer of fat inside the chest cavity next to the spine because it protects the tenderloins until it's processed. The only tenderloin is on the inside of the chest cavity. The backstrap is on the outside.