Meat color and smell is wrong.

[Jakey_boy001]

I saw some fishermen on an Alaska fishing forum complaining about not getting their same Halibut back from processing. None of the good cuts came back and multiple fish worth of the cheap cuts.

Do you see any of the good cuts? T-bones or Loin?

Well to start off with he told me I lost the tenderloins (considering I saw the smoker behind the butcher shop he probably ment they were delicious) I do have the back straps but not enough packages for how big the straps were, that’s the only thing that’s labeled what cut it’s from other than that it’s all labeled elk steak, elk roast and elk burger.
After cooking some tonight and finding more hair in it than I’ve ever seen in anything I’ve processed myself I’m convinced that I did not receive the meat I dropped off. My hanging weight when I dropped it off was 198 lbs I received roughly 75ish lbs back idk if that’s the correct amount for that starting weight.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

Geez, if any of you around the Seattle area need help butchering an animal, contact me. I love it.

 

[ez_willie]

“My hanging weight when I dropped it off was 198 lbs I received roughly 75ish lbs back idk if that’s the correct amount for that starting weight.“
You’ve killed 9 elk ? What did your receipt show?

 

[Jakey_boy001]

“My hanging weight when I dropped it off was 198 lbs I received roughly 75ish lbs back idk if that’s the correct amount for that starting weight.“
You’ve killed 9 elk ? What did your receipt show?

This is the first elk I’ve had processed by someone else I’ve never weighed anything till this one. It doesn’t matter what it weighs when you are not paying for it. I used to live close to my dad’s house and had space to hang an elk and process it, now I live in a city and I don’t have room. And the invoice from the butcher only has the hanging weight because that’s what the price you pay is based off of.
I killed a mule deer a month later and I did that one myself and I got almost as much as the elk (comparing the stack sizes in my freezer I didn’t weigh it.)

 

[Cordell Walker]

If you’re hanging weight of 198 was deboned meat/quarters, I’d say 75lbs is a little light. Hauled 200lbs of deboned hind quarters and bone in front quarters plus scrape meat from an elk out of the woods last year and yielded 143lbs of finished meat. This years bull yielded 175lbs of finished meat from 225lbs of deboned quarters/scrape.