How much meat
12-06-2003, 10:11 AM
#11
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: williamstown vt
Posts: 699
RE: How much meat
Buscuit that sound s about right, the lil spike i ended up shooting this year weighed out @100 lbs.but there was a couple of bg hole in it, one in neck and about 5-6" on one side of rib cage. BAD,BAD shot on mybehalf, but anyhow sounds about close, all depends on the butcher and what they feel better on what goes where.
12-06-2003, 10:38 AM
#12
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: south western, wy USA
Posts: 496
RE: How much meat
Just one thing, you can’t make jerky with ground meat as Skeeter mentioned unless he had granulated jerky in mind which I have never seen. For jerky you require long thin strips of meat. The best cut for jerky is flank steak. Enjoy your deer meat.
trailer you can make very good jerky out of ground meat
the link below is a kit for doing it
it can be made in a dehydrator, smoker, or the kitchen oven
i have tried all 3
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12-06-2003, 06:26 PM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: MB.
Posts: 2,984
RE: How much meat
My apology to all. You learn something new every day.I have never heard of making jerky from ground meat. The only way I ever done it is with thin strips of meat , seasoned and by using the dehydrator as mentioned. I guess I’ll have to check it out.˝
12-06-2003, 09:04 PM
#16
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Saskatchewan Canada
Posts: 6,921
RE: How much meat
I have always made my ground jerky by placing the meat between wax paper and rolling out with a rolling pin to 1/4 to 3/8" thick. Just cut with a knife and off to the device you use for making jerky. Works real well and minimal investment required to try the ground style vs. whole muscle meat. Off course the meat must be merinaded prior to this process and for ground jerky IMO it needs at least 24 hr in the fridge covered.
12-07-2003, 01:05 AM
#17
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Harford Co Maryland USA
Posts: 4,966
RE: How much meat
I do all my own butchering and can usually get a hair over 50% of the field dressed weight in boned out, edible meat. After ending up with lots of steaks the first few years, I use only the best cuts for steaks , a few roasts and maybe some cubed meat for stews. Everything else is ground into burger--that's about 80% of the meat on my deer. Ground meat is extreemely versatile and can be eaten as something different every day. Steak can become boring after a while--that's why I limit it.
12-07-2003, 07:35 AM
#18
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location:
Posts: 326
RE: How much meat
skeeter 7mm, the wax paper rolling the meat out idea is a great idea ,as my jerky shooter takes forever loading it is a drag. you really dont need to marinate it at all. i use insta cure and mix in uncle abes seasoning ,it turns out awesome!!!
12-07-2003, 10:05 AM
#19
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Free Union, VA
Posts: 750
RE: How much meat
there is a nice chart on the main Deerhunting.com page. look to the left and it says something about weight. it's fairly accurate. The meat you got sounds about right. I got a button a week ago which weighed 7 lbs field dressed. I weighed it by picking it up while standing on a scale. According to the scale it was about 98 lbs live weight and 40 lbs of meat wich is about what I got out of it. I processed it myself.
David
David