Stalking for the freezer and avoiding supermarkets

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I’ve only ever shot one red hind in Devon, she was 65 kg larder weight so I extrapolated to around 85 kg live weight and as you’ve both correctly pointed out overegged the meat yield as I didn’t really think about it and didn’t keep the carcass. I was including heart, liver and kidneys as I include those as meat.

Do you really think head, lower legs and gralloch would weigh 35kg on an 85 kg beast? I mainly shoot roe and munties with a few fallow in between but proportions would be similar. 41% of live weight to go in the head, gralloch (excluding edible organs) and lower legs seems a lot.

Got it and aye, you might be right on 41% being a bit high on a wild red. I never weigh them live weight but don't think it'd be that far off. I know a bucket full of red guts is bloody heavy and hard to move and that's excluding head and legs.

There's a few more views in this thread and 60% kill weight isn't impossible: Are there any formulas to work out “hill weight” from “larder weight”

 

[25 Sharps]

Got it and aye, you might be right on 41% being a bit high on a wild red. I never weigh them live weight but don't think it'd be that far off. I know a bucket full of red guts is bloody heavy and hard to move and that's excluding head and legs.

There's a few more views in this thread and 60% kill weight isn't impossible: Are there any formulas to work out “hill weight” from “larder weight”

I’d love to have reds but a 50-60 kilo larder weight fallow buck is enough on your own!

 

[wytonpjs]

I’d love to have reds but a 50-60 kilo larder weight fallow buck is enough on your own!

Agreed! The biggest fallow buck I’ve ever had was 75kg larder weight and that dammed near killed me. Forced a complete rethink on my carcass handling in the garage - it was emotional to say the least. Last pricket was 33.6kg and I got 45% of product (see here for processed breakdown). Most fallow does seem to average 35 kg or thereabouts thankfully

 

[Cyres]

Fallow fillet weight 0.3 kg has got to be wrong. Get nearly 2 kg from a roe.
Last buck I shot I kept the 2 rear legs and fillets. Diced up the front end 4.5kg of mince and had about 1kg of casserole mix. Each hind leg must be 3kg each.
I will weigh up the next one.
D

 

[Ratcatcher]

Fallow fillet weight 0.3 kg has got to be wrong. Get nearly 2 kg from a roe.
Last buck I shot I kept the 2 rear legs and fillets. Diced up the front end 4.5kg of mince and had about 1kg of casserole mix. Each hind leg must be 3kg each.
I will weigh up the next one.
D

Fillet, or loin? That's a very different weight, fillet off roe , can't be more than half a pound ( sorry don't do metric)!

 

[shakey jake]

Fallow fillet weight 0.3 kg has got to be wrong. Get nearly 2 kg from a roe.
Last buck I shot I kept the 2 rear legs and fillets. Diced up the front end 4.5kg of mince and had about 1kg of casserole mix. Each hind leg must be 3kg each.
I will weigh up the next one.
D

you are talking about loin not fillet, fillet is the small muscle on the underside of the spine running into the pelvis

 

[shakey jake]

Fillet, or loin? That's a very different weight, fillet off roe , can't be more than half a pound ( sorry don't do metric)!

i doubt it would weigh that, he is confussing the steaks

 

[Cyres]

I call it hunters fillet and on a roe might be 300grm. I am talking about the backstraps which I assume is fillet. Ibthink the rear fillet is the best to eat.
D

 

[shakey jake]

I call it hunters fillet and on a roe might be 300grm. I am talking about the backstraps which I assume is fillet. Ibthink the rear fillet is the best to eat.

back strap is an american term for the loin.
not sure which cut is rear fillet

 

[25 Sharps]

Fallow fillet weight 0.3 kg has got to be wrong. Get nearly 2 kg from a roe.
Last buck I shot I kept the 2 rear legs and fillets. Diced up the front end 4.5kg of mince and had about 1kg of casserole mix. Each hind leg must be 3kg each.
I will weigh up the next one.
D

He’s referring to the internal loin, by the kidneys. The most tender cut, my boy loves them!

 

[VSS]

I call it hunters fillet and on a roe might be 300grm. I am talking about the backstraps which I assume is fillet. Ibthink the rear fillet is the best to eat.
D

Tenderloins (or fillets) are on the inside of the carcass.
Loins are on the outside.

 

[shakey jake]

He’s referring to the internal loin, by the kidneys. The most tender cut, my boy loves them!

no hes not, thats a fillet and no way
you get a 2kg fillet from a roe.

 

[SussexSteve]

Venison 4 or 5 times a week in our house. Shepherds pies burgers lasagnes curries stews. In fact my son eats 4 or 5 curries a week doesn’t like chicken curry anymore prefers venison. That’s good for my pocket

 

[Tim.243]

Agreed! The biggest fallow buck I’ve ever had was 75kg larder weight and that dammed near killed me. Forced a complete rethink on my carcass handling in the garage - it was emotional to say the least. Last pricket was 33.6kg and I got 45% of product (see here for processed breakdown). Most fallow does seem to average 35 kg or thereabouts thankfully

84.5kg cold weight with only £20.00 winches on my own Peter. Up here for thinking down there for turning the handle

Same in my small chiller.
Same with a 96kg dressed Red with my sister turning up just at the right time to film lol

 

[25 Sharps]

no hes not, thats a fillet and no way
you get a 2kg fillet from a roe.

I’m referring to the person Cyres is quoting who got 300 grams of fillet from a fallow……(post number 7)

2kg from a roe, Cyres is clearly talking about backstraps / loin which some people incorrectly refer to as fillet.