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A buddy and I shot two Cow's years ago. Just the four quarters weighed 420 and 405 at The Butcher Shop!!!
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A buddy and I shot two Cow's years ago. Just the four quarters weighed 420 and 405 at The Butcher Shop!!! Were they by any chance charging you by the lb?
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Threads like this always remind me of some guys from work. One guy and his son killed a pair of 1000lb cows a couple years ago. Strangely from the pictures I saw they looked like regular 350-400lb animals.
Then there was the guy who’s dad shot a 1400lb raghorn 5x5. That they proceeded to drag 1/2 a mile on a blue tarp, load into a 12’ Johnboat with a 5hp motor, and haul the elk plus the three of them back across the lake. Upon picking it up from the locker plant they were delighted to get 900lb of boned meat. The picture I saw of that one sure made it look like a regular old 500-600lb raghorn.
With my tendency to kill elk in steep brush choked hellholes I’m sure glad I never kill any 1200 pounders.
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Ping pong balls for the win.
Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable
I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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my son shot a huge bull that would score in the 380 b.c. reason i know that my bull scored 374 b.c. his bull the butcher estimated his bull weight at around 800 lbs. and cows are much smaller ,that bull was not that tasty either.
LIFE NRA , we vote Red up here, Norseman
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Threads like this always remind me of some guys from work. One guy and his son killed a pair of 1000lb cows a couple years ago. Strangely from the pictures I saw they looked like regular 350-400lb animals.
Then there was the guy who’s dad shot a 1400lb raghorn 5x5. That they proceeded to drag 1/2 a mile on a blue tarp, load into a 12’ Johnboat with a 5hp motor, and haul the elk plus the three of them back across the lake. Upon picking it up from the locker plant they were delighted to get 900lb of boned meat. The picture I saw of that one sure made it look like a regular old 500-600lb raghorn.
With my tendency to kill elk in steep brush choked hellholes I’m sure glad I never kill any 1200 pounders. Amen to that. I’ll stick with the 400lb cows and 600lb bulls.
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my son shot a huge bull that would score in the 380 b.c. reason i know that my bull scored 374 b.c. his bull the butcher estimated his bull weight at around 800 lbs. and cows are much smaller ,that bull was not that tasty either. Any pics of said bulls?
Ping pong balls for the win.
Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable
I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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my son shot a huge bull that would score in the 380 b.c. reason i know that my bull scored 374 b.c. his bull the butcher estimated his bull weight at around 800 lbs. and cows are much smaller ,that bull was not that tasty either. Any pics of said bulls? No Jud someone would use the pics to find his hunting spot just like they always do when Scenarshooter posts his pics. 
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My father and I weighed meat from three spikes after they were cut and wrapped, the only bones we packaged were the ribs. They weighed from 205 to 220, the 205 had maybe three pounds of bloodshot meat cut away. I doubt the butcher wrap weighed much over 10-12 pounds, and the non-certified scale was probably off a bit, but it was pretty close when we weighed ourselves. All three were from SW Colorado, do they grow that much bigger there? I haven't weighed any since then.
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my son shot a huge bull that would score in the 380 b.c. reason i know that my bull scored 374 b.c. his bull the butcher estimated his bull weight at around 800 lbs. and cows are much smaller ,that bull was not that tasty either. Any pics of said bulls? No Jud someone would use the pics to find his hunting spot just like they always do when Scenarshooter posts his pics. thanks for the reminder and your right.
LIFE NRA , we vote Red up here, Norseman
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My friend Dave is the best field butcher I have ever seen. When he is done with a carcass it looks like the buzzards have already come & gone. Whe I have Dave helping we do a little better than the chart. If it is just me cutting the chart is very close.
I always try to pick a big older cow for both meat & conserving the breeding females but sometimes smaller & tender is good too. The biggest bull I’ve killed had ugly over the hill broken antlers he looked like an angus body though was pushing Estimated 800 lbs.
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