I shot a 150 lb hog last day of season, took it to Hunters Haven in Archer county, just got back from picking it up and wieghed my sack it weighed 16 lb. What do you think?

Huh?

hmm seems weird to me...where did u shoot it at? (shot placement) my little doe gave me almost 70 lbs of meat. and it was under 150 lbs for sure. ide guess 130? but thats diff cause its a deer maybe? iuno i havent taken a hog in yet. infact have never shot one they dont have em in michigan lol.

Sounds like that might be just a tad bit off....I could see 60 maybe, but not 16! Is'nt the average about 40%? I can see where a hog would have a lot of loss from the head and hide... but that still sounds a little off there 7mag.

don't sound right at all. did they give you the rest they used to make some deer sausage with by chance.

Sure seems lite to me. Did they charge you procesing by the hanging weight? Any sausage made? If not that could be were the majority of your weight went. Trimmings make up a fair bit of your take home weight and if you just wanted roasts and chops then they had no place for the trimmings.

Something wrong with that. When I shoot a pig, I don't even gut it. I slit the skin down the back, filet out the backstraps, continue the skin split around the hindquarters, and take them. That's all I take. I don't get any blood on me; just grease/fat.

I can guarantee that the backstarps and hams from a 150 pound pig weigh more than 16 pounds.

sounds like you got the shaft..... that sucks.

Shot him behind the front schoulder went through ribs and out ribs, backstrap and chops the rest into sausage. Shouldn't have wasted any meat.

Well I wouldn't take another one there thats for sure. Another reason I process my own.

I do my best to get all the meat off I can and have never gotten 40% weight. I usually around 35%. If I shoot a 100 lb hog I get abput 35lbs of pure meat.

I took my deer in for processing last year and I got back packages of wrapped meat marked "pork". You can have it to make up your loss, LOL.

You need to talk to the processor, something is way wrong.

For you to have gotten back only 16 pounds of meat, your pig would have weighed around 35 pound live weight, not 150.

If the animal you took in went 150, you should have gotten around 65 to 75 pounds of meat. Pigs normally dress out from 45% to 50%, maybe slightly more.

If that 150 pound weight you posted was for a gutted animal, then you should have gotten between 80 or 90 pounds of meat.

AndrewR, the processor gave you extra meat.

A doe even if it went 150 live weight, will only dress out about 30% to maybe 35%.

The most you should have got back is about 50 pounds of meat and that would be on the high side.

You got robbed for sure, call them up first thing.

Hahahaha you have a 16 lbs sack.....sorry I had to

Im not the best when it comes to math but I can even tell that you didnt get all your pig back.

Yes sir you've been robbed. I'd call them on it first then get the USDA involved.

I wouldn't have left there without an expanation or more pork!

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I had the same thing happen to me once and I have never went back even tho others have said they are the best in the area.

I shot the largest hog of the season last year (400 live), and had it mounted because of the huge tusks... they had me come pick it up when ready, only for me to find a middle aged small tusked hog... "I said this isn't mine"... then two weeks later they magically found my skull and tusks and redid the mount...... I'd say 65% of taxidermist are unorganized as hell or just plain shady..

my buddy took a doe and a hog to the same place with the same thing happening to him.I told him he got ripped off but he didnt want to start no [censored] so he said nothing to him.

Just to clarify hunters haven is in lakeside city just north of archer city, and HHH is much better and is in archer city. I haven't delt with hunter haven and if this is how he does business I won't go there then. HHH gets my nod!

The owner was out of town when I picked up my pig,I'm going to call and talk to him tomorrow and se if there's been a mistake. A-10 have you taken any thing to HHH I'veheard their pretty good?

ground shrinkage????? just kidding, that does suck