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<blockquote data-quote="bigngreen" data-source="post: 566497" data-attributes="member: 13632"><p>Your right a Barnes fairly well just blows a hole through but a jacketed lead bullet as it frags sends bits everywhere, if you follow the little shoots of blood shot into the meat a lot of times you'll find little bits of lead or jacket that's why a guy should cut out meat till the dark streaks are gone. I used to shoot 100% Barnes bullets strictly because how good they are for meat but I prefer to put elk down dead and not looking for elk that should be dead!</p><p></p><p>Not one hell of an elk, but a decent sized 6 point. That's the total meat in the lug after boning the shoulders out. A good sized cow will run about 32 lbs of meat. I used to have all the numbers down but it's been a while since I was cutting a few hundred a year but those are good weight cause I double checked this week with a bull and couple cows. A good grinder goes a long ways to getting the yield a guy should, the Cabelas grinder is worth its weight in gold, it won't touch a 10hp 52 but it's dang good for the home guy, I timed it last night in case your interested my 1.5 hp Cabelas will coarse grind an average elk in 8 min and fine grind in 35min, that's 112 lbs of burger which is average.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigngreen, post: 566497, member: 13632"] Your right a Barnes fairly well just blows a hole through but a jacketed lead bullet as it frags sends bits everywhere, if you follow the little shoots of blood shot into the meat a lot of times you'll find little bits of lead or jacket that's why a guy should cut out meat till the dark streaks are gone. I used to shoot 100% Barnes bullets strictly because how good they are for meat but I prefer to put elk down dead and not looking for elk that should be dead! Not one hell of an elk, but a decent sized 6 point. That's the total meat in the lug after boning the shoulders out. A good sized cow will run about 32 lbs of meat. I used to have all the numbers down but it's been a while since I was cutting a few hundred a year but those are good weight cause I double checked this week with a bull and couple cows. A good grinder goes a long ways to getting the yield a guy should, the Cabelas grinder is worth its weight in gold, it won't touch a 10hp 52 but it's dang good for the home guy, I timed it last night in case your interested my 1.5 hp Cabelas will coarse grind an average elk in 8 min and fine grind in 35min, that's 112 lbs of burger which is average. [/QUOTE]
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