Originally Posted by
magicman54494
The best I have ever got is 40% deboned meat of the DRESSED weight. Using that formula your deer would have to dress out at 350# . Something doesn't add up.
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It has been my experience that no more then 50% of the DRESSED weight is the return on packaged meat. So from my experience, if you got 140lbs then that deer field dressed 280 with the live weight being clsoe to an additional 20%. Not saying that there aren't deer that size, I just did not see a deer that size in any of the pictures.
Curious, did you actually weigh the meat or count out the packages??? The reason I ask is that all of my tickets I have gotten show a weight on it. That is not the weight of the meat, but the weight of the dressed animal. Like I said just my experiences.