BIG BULL ELK TAKE HOME WEIGHT? NO BONES
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From: Hancock West
02-Aug-19
What would be an average take home weight for a mature big bull elk in South Central Colorado? No bones or additives, just the weight of the raw meat. I'm sure it varies but a rough guess will be fine. Thanks in advance for any help.
From: trkyslr
02-Aug-19
Processed or unprocessed?
From: Hancock West
02-Aug-19
unprocessed weight.
From: Scrappy
02-Aug-19
We weighed the sacks from my bull last year when I got home and had a total of 272 pounds of meat. After it was all processed and packaged we had a total of 243 pounds. You will get a ton of different answers because some people think that if you pull the four quarters and loins with a small sack of trim that is all the meat off an elk. Me I cut every ounce of meat I could get off the bull.
From: Brotsky
02-Aug-19
Depends upon how good you are at taking the meat off in the field. Mid 200's is the likely outcome.
From: Junior
02-Aug-19
Scrappy's bull had a helluva sack! Definitely a wheelbarrow full! Lol Yea 200 plus easily boned!
From: WapitiBob
02-Aug-19
I've weighed 330 but most will be in the mid to low 200's.
From: trkyslr
02-Aug-19
Depending on age of the Bull and how thorough you are on taking all the meat it could be 250-350 pounds upper end for old giant bull which is tough to get in CO
From: smarba
02-Aug-19
Huge variety. I always debone and take all neck meat, trimmings, everything I can get for burger etc. and have had them vary from 215-315 mature bulls in NM. The 315 was an absolute mammoth body.
From: Hancock West
02-Aug-19
guys I can't thank you enough. I've recently found a butcher who processes elk & tried many different samples. But he only does 50lb batches so we're trying to get that all lined out ahead of time. If you guys are interested in some fantastic old fashioned elk salami give them a try. I've tried dozens of places and this is hands down the best by far. All my whitetails will be going to this place moving forward. Wood Smoked Meats - Bowling Green Mo (573) 324-2247 & they ship. https://www.woodssmokedmeats.com/
From: grossklw
02-Aug-19
Only two that I killed was a 270" decent 6 point that had 280 lbs of boned out meat that we packed out and the other was a raghorn that had just shy of 200 lbs. BTW the raghorn's meat quality was better than the bigger bull, backstraps were fantastic on that thing.
From: PoudreCanyon
02-Aug-19
My biggest yielded 298 pounds, frozen, from the processor.
From: HUNT MAN
02-Aug-19
I have always weight our bulls and cows. Boned out bulls 215-250. Couple in the 275-280 range and one over 300. Cows have never broke 200!! Hunt
From: Surfbow
03-Aug-19
Mine was 237 last year, boned out, minus shanks. Yield was bigger due to added fat...
From: Hancock West
03-Aug-19
Thanks everyone. I appreciate your input.