Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting What's a Quartered Elk Weigh?

I've often wonder this myself. I've never weighed quarters when I got home, but wish I would have. On our opening week hunt, our guest hunter, Beau Baty, shot a bull. Given Beau weighs everything for llamas so that each side of the load is balanced to the pound, this seemed like a good time to film such. Thanks to Marcus (camera guy) for the idea and for filming it.

This was an average sized 4.5 year old (best estimate of age) bull, weighed with bone in. The elk I have shot in central and eastern MT have larger bodies than what I see in the mountains here in SW MT. Not sure if that is a result of higher quality forage in certain habitats or something else.

Interested what all you might have for weights on bulls you may have put on a scale.