How much processed meat (pounds) should one expect to get out of a mature cow Oryx? My buddy just got his meat back from the processer and it seems waaayyyyy short of what it should have been. Either he gave me the wrong # or he may have been jacked.

I'd spect about the same as that from a spike bull elk or a bit more?

Dober

And that would be what Dober (haven't killed my first elk yet but hope to in January:) )

On something with such premium meat I always take the tenderloins and backstraps myself, and let the processer handle the rest. Removes a lot of temptation...

What was the carcass weight checked in to the processor?

I think I got a pound or 2 of jerky and 200 pounds of sausage out of the 4 quarters of mine. I don't remember how much pork I bought though, so I don't know if this is of much help to you?

I thought I remembered getting a couple hundred pounds out of my bull three years back (can't find my receipt). My buddy called to tell me his meat arrived and was 65 pounds. We turned in the full four quarters, back straps, and tenderloins. He shot through the center of the backstraps and tore up on front quarter pretty good but it was all there.

Gemsbok? Pork?!!! SAUSAGE?!!!! Do you smear [bleep] on your pancakes too?

A reasonably accurate guesstimate is that the boned meat of a game animal is about 1/3 the live weight. This will obviously vary somewhat, but not all that much. My wife and I have weighed a lot of animals from young pronghorns and deer to bull elk, and it works out pretty well, though younger animals will yield a little less than 1/3. It also doesn't take into account meat that's been shot up.

I would expect around 100 pounds of meat from a typical mature cow gemsbok. If you got 200 pounds of boned meat from a bull gemsbok, he was far larger than average. The biggest I've killed in Africa weighed, on an accurate scale, 300 for the carcass without innards, head, skin, and lower legs.

Thanks JB! I could very well be wrong on the weight of mine. What concerns my for my buddy is only getting 65 pounds from his. He would have lost a hair from the back straps as he shot right through the middle of one. One of the front shoulders was shot-up. Doesn't 65 pounds seem a bit light?

Maybe not if you're missing the middle of the backstraps and one shoulder. Also depends on the size of the gemsbok.

Thanks again JB!

The meat processor screwed up the order. I was none too pleased about it, but there was not anything I could do about it.

I've never heard of smearing [bleep] on pancakes, but if you like that, you should really try some gemsbok pork sausage. I'll bet pesos to dollars you give up your pancake recipe.

I generally think of 30% of live weight. Of course... you would need to know live weight.