Venison %

[Cranhill]

Is Your Wild-Game Processor Shorting You on Venison?

Here’s how to know how much meat you should be getting from a harvested deer.

www.outdoorlife.com

 

[sauer]

Variables
1. How goods the butcher / processor?
2. How much meat damage?

 

[75]

And recent threads on here have suggested a difference between species - with fallow producing better percentage yield than reds.

 

[lochty]

I'd posted before, clean shot 30kg fallow produces about 17 to 18 kg of usable venison. But, as @sauer and @75 say, that might not scale up or down for the various species nor take account of damage.

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

Bullet damage isn’t a problem if rite off the front end, I stand by a rule that an ex slaughterman taught me, if it takes longer than five minutes to sort it’s not worth it skip it!

And as a butcher in a previous life that’s a rule I abide by.

 

[Mike1979]

Bullet damage isn’t a problem if rite off the front end, I stand by a rule that an ex slaughterman taught me, if it takes longer than five minutes to sort it’s not worth it skip it!

And as a butcher in a previous life that’s a rule I abide by.

I like the rule for professionals but I wouldnt eat any venison if I went with the 5 minute rule...maybe 5 hour rule for me

 

[lochty]

@Norfolk Deer Search sounds like you have a similar attitude to me. When I've shot something I've gained haunches, tenderloin and hopefully some mince. The quantity depends on whether I've shot cleanly.

 

[griff]

Perhaps someone could do the maths for me as I am not good very at it, if a GD pays you £2.0 kg and its perfectly shot ie head, he would only have 48% of the original weight. what does that work out per Kg.