Where I hunt in East Central Minnesota we have dark deer and lighter colored deer in November. It seems to me that the dark ones can be quite a bit larger. I shot a fawn one year that was dark and huge, close to 150 lbs. One year, I sat out in a stand on a field watching a doe with 2 fawns. This means that doe was at least 2 1/2 years old. Does under that age almost never produce twins. She would have weighed 130 minimum to a probable 150-160. After a bit, another dark doe walked out and started feeding with the others. With her in the midst of them, it was obvious she was half again larger than the other doe. Last year I shot a dark doe one that was bigger than the sixer I shot a week earlier. Might just be coincidence. But... we have the genes locally to produce 300 lb+ bucks with typically very small racks while our average mature bucks are more typically 170-225.
