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SKane he was smaller in the hips kinda like a greyhound. This picture doesn't show it as much as it does when he is stretched out. For comparison the 10 pointer next to him weighed 180. Lefty
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Now imagine what he'd weigh if the back matched the front!
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+1 This is a real trophy for the way it was killed, it's size, and it's age. Very cool! I hope all that meat is great eating!
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At 376 lbs, that buck is absolute freak for this area! It is akin to an 8 foot tall human.
I've lived here my entire life in this area and have seen hundreds of dead whitetails and never seen or heard of anything even close to that.
I've weighed a few of the bigger bucks that I've killed and anything field-dressed that goes over 175 is a good buck. Something that goes much over 210 is gonna turn heads.
From what I have seen, 180-220 lbs field dressed is by far the norm for an older buck living good in this area. It's hard to imagine something that would be a 100 lbs bigger.
You got yourself a freak of nature. Congrats on one heckuva deer.
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Holy crap. I have had one that was over 200 dressed. I can't imagine one that big.
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The buck I got this year weighed 173 at the locker, dressed. No hide, head, guts or lower legs. What would he have went live?
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I wish you had taken a photo of the two bucks hanging side by side. The 375 would have to have been twice the size as the other.
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I wish we had taken more pictures also. It didn't really sink in what we had until I thought about it for a while. The 10 point buck laying next to it on the picture above is a decent comparison. He was 180+. Taxidermist is going to do a full shoulder mount that hopefully shows his size.
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At 376 lbs, that buck is absolute freak for this area! It is akin to an 8 foot tall human.
I've lived here my entire life in this area and have seen hundreds of dead whitetails and never seen or heard of anything even close to that.
I've weighed a few of the bigger bucks that I've killed and anything field-dressed that goes over 175 is a good buck. Something that goes much over 210 is gonna turn heads.
From what I have seen, 180-220 lbs field dressed is by far the norm for an older buck living good in this area. It's hard to imagine something that would be a 100 lbs bigger.
You got yourself a freak of nature. Congrats on one heckuva deer. It is simply amazing. do you think the area had more or better food?
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Congratulations! That is a MONSTER!
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Lonny,
No I don't think so. Heavy green timber broken up by clear cuts. I have been hunting there on and off for 15 years and there are some really large bucks there. I got a big 250 lb 10 pointer a while ago, and my Nephew go a 250+ 10 pointer 3 years ago. The taxidermist told me he had one come in about three years ago that was as big and had a bigger rack. Based on the size of the tracks I have seen I would expect there to be some other really big bucks.
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Congrats on a slob! Largest weight wise I have killed here in WNY was 228 lbs dressed That deer was a foot longer than any deer I've killed
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Lonny,
No I don't think so. Heavy green timber broken up by clear cuts. I have been hunting there on and off for 15 years and there are some really large bucks there. I got a big 250 lb 10 pointer a while ago, and my Nephew go a 250+ 10 pointer 3 years ago. The taxidermist told me he had one come in about three years ago that was as big and had a bigger rack. Based on the size of the tracks I have seen I would expect there to be some other really big bucks.
Lefty This about tracks weights for mature bucks in Maine,with a few nudging over 270 pounds dressed. Usually such bucks are killed before the 3rd or 4th week in November when they have lost weight from running does all month. But the Maine record is a buck killed by Horace Hinkley and dressed 355 pounds,so sure...they can get that big!. Lefty, your buck beats the Maine state record....that's a hell of a deer. Congrats and nice job with the tracking and shooting. That is not an easy way to kill one.
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Lonny,
No I don't think so. Heavy green timber broken up by clear cuts. I have been hunting there on and off for 15 years and there are some really large bucks there. I got a big 250 lb 10 pointer a while ago, and my Nephew go a 250+ 10 pointer 3 years ago. The taxidermist told me he had one come in about three years ago that was as big and had a bigger rack. Based on the size of the tracks I have seen I would expect there to be some other really big bucks.
Lefty I'd have to agree, there isn't better feed, but I think there is better cover where the big boys and girls can hide. The heavy timber in the area is generally such that you and I can't sneak through it without letting everything living there know we are coming. We used to sit the clear cuts as teens, but we didn't see much. Combination of being teens -distracted easily- and not willing/mature/knowing enough to tackle the hard hunting just yet. Depending on how far he ranged, he could get to grain fields (winter wheat is the most common) that border the start of the timbered areas, but I suspect he was further in the deep stuff.
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Growing up in Northern Vt. I can relate to maine hunting. My dad used to go there and bought some pretty big deer home, but a lot of years nothing. The day I got this buck was unusual. It had been below 0 for a few days and the ground was rock hard, crunchy, like walking on corn flakes. Any tracks were weeks old in the frozen ground. I was rewarded with "thumps" and cracking brush 150 yards ahead. 4days of hard hunting=0. Then it turned warm and rained all night. Any tracks at all were very fresh. I picked up this bucks track in big timber on a ridgetop. Followed them slowly for about a 1/2 mile and then down and around a large clear cut, through more timber to the edge of another clear cut, another 1/4 mile or so and found a huge scrape and small tree demolished. I was getting pretty pumped! Over a small knoll and spotted a doe standing in the clear cut. Scoped her and there were antlers sticking up by her feet. The doe had me busted and took off and the buck took as well. Three shots and he was down. 1 in the hip, a miss, and 1 low in the chest. He turned out to be farther away than I thought. Ranged from where I shot and it was almost 300 yards. His size made him look closer. All my shots were about 6" low which makes sense with the 308's zero. Shot at noon. One to remember for sure.
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The buck I got this year weighed 173 at the locker, dressed. No hide, head, guts or lower legs. What would he have went live? Quite a bit more.
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AH, He was back a ways. In the last few years I have been seeing less and less deer and more and more of this: Woof and cats are working on them. One of the guys said he saw a grizzly track as well. Lefty
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Its a hellova buck no doubt. Deer do get that big on occaision. I believe the MN state record is something like 408 pounds!
My biggest is 227 field dressed and i had to turn the head/neck to fit it in a 6.5' box on my f150.
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Bob.
Growing up in Northern Vt. I can relate to maine hunting. My dad used to go there and bought some pretty big deer home, but a lot of years nothing. The day I got this buck was unusual. It had been below 0 for a few days and the ground was rock hard, crunchy, like walking on corn flakes. Any tracks were weeks old in the frozen ground. I was rewarded with "thumps" and cracking brush 150 yards ahead. 4days of hard hunting=0. Then it turned warm and rained all night. Any tracks at all were very fresh. I picked up this bucks track in big timber on a ridgetop. Followed them slowly for about a 1/2 mile and then down and around a large clear cut, through more timber to the edge of another clear cut, another 1/4 mile or so and found a huge scrape and small tree demolished. I was getting pretty pumped! Over a small knoll and spotted a doe standing in the clear cut. Scoped her and there were antlers sticking up by her feet. The doe had me busted and took off and the buck took as well. Three shots and he was down. 1 in the hip, a miss, and 1 low in the chest. He turned out to be farther away than I thought. Ranged from where I shot and it was almost 300 yards. His size made him look closer. All my shots were about 6" low which makes sense with the 308's zero. Shot at noon. One to remember for sure.
Lefty ....from Northern Vermont....You're a New Englander! No wonder you knew to track him! Great story and great job! If he had not bumped into that hot doe, you might still be following him! She made him slow down,and they will demolish a tree and/or scrape in the presence of a hot doe. The whole thing was too absolutely cool! I'm getting light headed.
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