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Post by bigugly on Aug 7, 2005 8:07:08 GMT -5
Been watching a lot of clips of deer hunting on the web. See a lot of clips of bucks with huge racks. Then you see the deer on the ground and they don't seem very big bodied. Are the deer larger in certian areas or is ground shrinkage just more pronounced on video. I've never shot a large racked buck but have shot spikes in Ontario that dress out at 145-170 lbs on scales.Got a doe 6 years ago dressed at 195lbs. This is a big doe but is this is not the biggest I've seen. Last year a friend shot a big 8 that was 255 lbs. dressed and another got a doe about 10 years ago that wieght 210.( he won a Remingtom 308 in a big deer pot) Is the diff. from climate or genetics. Or is this the norm. Most of the deer we take are 18 month old by choice as they are better eating a doe will run about 125-150 on the hoof and a buck will be around 145-170.
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Post by schoolmaster on Aug 7, 2005 9:02:58 GMT -5
As you go further north the average body size is larger. This helps the animal compensate for the colder temperatures. (Bergman's principal) In order to settle a bet I started weighing all the deer that have hung on my meat pole and find that hunters overestimate the deer's weight about 90% of the time. an average doe will go 110 to 115 lbs and an average buck will go 130 to 135 here in NE Indiana. The biggest doe I ever weighed was 154 lbs and the biggest buck was 240' These weights are all field dressed weights. Texas deer have really big racks and smaller bodies. a 150 lb Texas deer is muy grande
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Post by 911 on Aug 7, 2005 9:09:19 GMT -5
The biggest doe taken off our farm dressed at 132
The biggest buck weighed 246 live weight and dressed at 203
This is in east central Indiana
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Post by cambygsp on Aug 8, 2005 6:08:06 GMT -5
The biggest doe taken off our farm dressed at 132 The biggest buck weighed 246 live weight and dressed at 203 This is in east central Indiana How did you get that deer to weigh in while it was still alive??  |
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