big doe
 

i shot one today. it weighed about 120 lbs or so. i got a lund shot or double lung. didnt pay to much attention. it was about 10:00am. shot up hill at about 22 yards. she at most ran 70 yards. and ran harder then any deer ive seen run. but i was wondering if this was right becuz i can not quite put the button on it, but there should be around 25- 30 lbs of meat rght?

RE: big doe
 

You should get about 85 lbs. of meat off of her if you debone right.

RE: big doe
 

Not sure on deer since I have never had a weight on them with the guts still in them, only an estimate. But on pigs and beef you will get about 55% of meat with no bones compared to live weight. If you have bones you will get more weight, but you get bones too. I would assume deer are the same.

RE: big doe
 

thats estimated and not gutted

RE: big doe
 

85 pounds of meat??? id like to see u get 85 poounds... i agree with you childers bout 25-35 that sounds bout right .. i clean my deer up pretty good an theres no way id ever get 85 pounds.. my question is did she have lil ones in er?.. i killed one couple days after chirstmas an she had 2 in er. pretty cool. you could make them out plain as day..

RE: big doe
 

Congrats! Let's see the pics :)

RE: big doe
 

i would have to say you will get about 20-30lbs of meat but 85LBS, that thing better have a bone disease and a thin hide if your gonna get the much meat out of it, i might get that much off of a 300lb live weight buck let alone a gutted doe that weighs 120.Uh no.

RE: big doe
 

Congrats on the Doe!

Here's a conversion chart that may help some of you folks

RE: big doe
 

i still find it hard to get 50 pounds of meat out of a 118 pound deer. according to the chart

RE: big doe
 

That chart seems about accurate to me

RE: big doe
 

same here and once again to peoples ignorance i repeat its not field dressed weight thats how it was when i found her dead. geez some people just make you wonder

RE: big doe
 

Wow, must be keeping the tongue, cheek meat, hocks, jowels, inner and outer labia[8D]

RE: big doe
 

The past two seasons we have cleaned all of our deer. For a total of 8 deer. We quarter them and then de-bone them. The biggest deer we shot was prolly around 170 live weight, and we got about 40lbs of meat at most, and that is having the carcuss look like it had been eaten by vultures, so there is no way you will get 85lbs of meat. On average i would say you get about 1/3 of the deers weight (give or take some).

RE: big doe
 

ya im still going with 25 % of the live weight