Originally Posted by m_stevenson
Nice buck there Joel!
Those Blacktails look like some burly buggers. Are they very heavy? Getting a weight on one of those would be a bit tough I imagine.


I have had a huge number of them on a scale in the round and field dressed. Lots of difference in weights between different areas/habitat types. On Afognak or in PWS in the old growth a yearling buck runs just over 100# field-dressed. A really big buck might go 165 or so.

Out in the open on Kodiak I have seen many bucks in the 200#+ range. Yearlings are about the same as in the old growth. The fat across the rumps on these deer can be unreal.


Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.