Interesting. I cut a hind off a bull this fall, kept the skin and leg on, and a flap of skin to protect the inside of the meat/ball joint. IE disjointed like you did( why would you do it any other way..)
I could NOT pick the thing up. I"m not huge, but I carry 2 bags of corn around quite often feeding our dog deer here.
I have no clue what my bull weighed, or what the hind without the leg and hide weighed, but I do know it about killed me to stand on the polaris and pull it up into the bed finally. Twice.
I suspect my bull must have been 1200 at least then.
38 inch neck around the meat part since I"m going to mount it, that measurement I know. AT the base of the skull.
HAIR!!!
I disarticulate but start a game bag down over the top of the quarter from the very beginning to make sure virtually no hair is on the meat and it cools as quickly as possible.
