Kinda wasteful..... as hunters we should all strive to use as much of the animal as we can. Granted we don't need to go as far as tanning our own hides and making bowstrings from intestinal lining, but for crying out loud you are gonna end up having to gut the thing anyway... take a sawzall and cut the backbone front of the hams..... you don't even need a knife to get them out. If you go to the bother of taking an animal... you ought to go to the trouble of doing more than a half ass job of dressing it.