I reweighed the meat and I came up with exactly just short of what he said. I weighed it at 135 pounds.

According to the charts I looked at with 135 pounds of meat the live weight would be right around 300 pounds. I'm still thinking he was 250-260 though.

Does the meat weight include bones? Also, did they add any fat to make sausage or ground meat?

I wish I could remember the formula I saw once. It gave live, dressed and boneless meat weights. The 40% thing sticks in my mind though. Live weight x 40% equals boneless weight. If that is indeed correct, your deer weighed 350 on the hoof.

I'm not saying one way or the other, and that deer is real nice, but I don't think he'd go 350 live.

Most processors will add in 20% fat to the meat...that would be 28 pounds if you got 140 back. Simple math puts your actual weight of meat at 112. Much more feasible for a deer the size of yours...size huge. Nice deer. My guess is that you had 110ish pounds of meat with 20% fat added in.

it barely looks 200 lbs to me live

I agree! Something is Not right:s4:

Dan

I think I have found the discrepancy. He did add in 14 pounds of pork which gave me 121 pounds of actual deer meat. So, add that up and the weight according to the charts show 120 pounds of meat = 267 pounds live weight. Still alittle over what I thought but much closer. I guessed between 250-260.

My small 7 point last years weighted 130 pounds hanging weight. I got between 40 to 50 pounds of meet. In my experience, with all the deer I have ever shot, it been just under half the hanging weight is what I got for meet. I never add any fat.