I am seeing way too many guys challenging the box of meat they get from a processor. I dressed a medium size doe from northern NY this weekend. The entire deer, minus inner tenderloin, rib cage meat-fat layers and a front leg shank (all these parts have cook dates with me due to traditions I honor) and she provided a measured 36 pounds of meat. If you get a 30 - 40 pound box, it is your deer and almost all the meat you could have scraped from it yourself.

We just cut one up also this weekend. Deboned everything. 44 lbs of scrap meat to go into sausage and 12 lbs of steaks.

you get about 1/4 of standing weight depending on how well it is filled out.

Average boneless meat from white tail is 48% of its field dressed weight.

^^^ BS … it’s 47.5 %

… everyone knows that

Thats Rebel deer.Im talkin manly Northern deer.

take the hide , head and legs at the knee joints and I will agree to 48%

Southern savages probably cooking the head, lungs, stomach lining, tail...

Im not disagreeing, however Ive taken a few big Mn corn fed bucks over 200lbs. I think on a buck that size the meat yield is around 80lbs plus.

I have cut up a good amount of deer. Fawns range from 15 to 30 pounds of boneless meat. Most in the 20 pound range.

Most does and yearling bucks range between 35 and 50 pounds of boneless meat.

Old does and mature bucks can get up to 80 pounds or more, but it is the exception, not the rule.

Average yield. 25 -30% undressed. As always. Shot placement is crucial. I waste a little meat because I like shoulder shots. Short to no tracking. But when you have 12 tags to fill, saves wasted time on tracking.

Sarge

I saw this years ago.




Ohio, especially in the corn field area, has large deer.

Keith

I say it takes the same number of cuts to cut up a big deer or a little one.

A big one just makes a lot more meat on the table when you are done.

I have weighed deer and venison yield many times over the years and found our deer here will be real close to half the dressed out weight if trimmed well.....it is generally within 5 lbs one way or the other of half, I agree with UpstateNY completely.

… I don’t… he was off by at least a quarter pound

If we had a stick my tongue out at you emoji,,,I would use it right now.

Most commercial butchers won’t take the time to pick away at the carcass like we do. They got that thing cut and wrapped in 15 minutes and I come pick up all the good scraps left over and use for baits.

Right on for deer in my area.