Originally Posted by: HammurabiAre you saying that a decent sized deer provides enough food to feed a family for an entire winter? I definitely need to take up hunting now.

Sure. The deer I shot field dressed at roughly 160lbs. I will get back 20lbs of regular summer sausage. 20lbs of summer sauasge with cheese and jalapenos. 15lbs of breakfeast sausage. 5-10lbs of backstrap steak. Whatever is left goes towards hamburger meat, should be around 20lbs or more of hamburger. I figure about 85lbs of meat or more. How long would it take you to consume 85lbs of meat?

By the way, the last whitetail I shot was an 11 point buck that field dressed at 200lbs. Imagine how much meat I got back off that awesome deer!