First Elk! :)
 

Hey....I just shot this elk cow last weekend. She's a big girl. About 400lbs. How much meat do you think I'll get from her? This was an exciting hunt. I won't forget this one!

I would think 150-200. Where did you get her?

That's some good eating there enjoy!

What season is open now?

Judging from his other posts and the background of the pictures he's posting, it looks like he's hunting a high-fenced Texas ranch that specializes in exotics!!! PS: Elk are considered exotics down there, just like Blackbucks, Aoudad, etc.

I have always hear aprox 50% of live weight. Here is what a butcher link says:

With an average market (live or on hoof) weight of 1,150 lbs and the average yield of 62.2%, the typical steer will produce a 715 lb. (dressed weight) carcass.

The dressed beef (or carcass) will yield approximately 569 lbs. (further details below) of red meat and trim (take home meat - which includes the average weight of 27 lbs of variety meat: liver, heart, tongue, tripe, sweetbreads and brains) and 146 lbs of fat, bone and loss. This is roughly a yield of 80% from the dressed or hanging weight - this is for a VERY LEAN Beef. A High Quality, USDA Choice Beef will yield approximately 70% of the Hanging or Dressed Weight. The yield on the take home meat weight from the live weight of the (VERY LEAN) steer is approximately 50%.

However, that is for grain fed beef. On deer/elk on native range that may not be quite as fat, you can probably figure slightly less than that.

400lbs is not big............just sayin....looks more like a yearling!!!!

Everything I want to post right now, would get me banned. You must be a REAL PROUD HUNTER! WTF!

Posting about high fences will get you banned or your choice of language is what you are worried about?

One can only assume there is a legal season right now somewhere for elk hunting. If not there will be plenty of meat to feed everyone in the cell with you.

I always figure about half of what the thing weighed while it was alive. Looks like a pretty small elk...so maybe 150-180 lb. of packaged meat.