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This may not help the OP answer his question ... but my wife and I just finished butchering this elk. For the area I usually hunt in I considered it to be slightly larger than average. We let it hang a week and then spent three days working on the processing ... a little at a time. The end result was exactly 150 pounds of packaged, boneless meat. We added nothing to the grind.

Our final tally was 61 pounds of roasts, 71 pounds of grind meat and 18 pounds of steaks.

This cow was shot once through the ribs just above the heart with a 300 Win Mag using 180 gr. Nosler Partitions. There was minimal damage to the meat, perhaps a couple of handfuls of thin rib flesh that was bloodshot. We discarded a little over a 5-gal bucket of silverskin, fat, connective tissue and tendons. There was some rind trimmed off too, mostly on the shanks.