I just butchered this moose last night, no idea what it weighed on the hoof. It was a typical medium sized bull moose for Saskatchewan.

We weighed the deboned, trimmed and not yet packaged meat. Just slightly under 300 lbs. It did have one shot through a hind leg, maybe 10 lbs of meat lost there. I did not weigh the waste, but I'm guessing there was about 40 lbs of waste trim in all, not counting the bones. Most butchers use a bandsaw, and so bones are part of the "yield" - we completely debone our game at home.

It was properly handled with a skinning pole and good meat bags in the field, but some of the outside is lost no matter what. After a week of so of aging, we take off all the contaminated, dirty, or discoloured stuff on the outside, about 1/8 -1/4" of most of the surface. Just how we do it, others may have different experiences.

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