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Nice deer, Scott! Who is the young guy standing beside it?

Quit giving away my spots!

Never scored? I'd say about 140"....

Good thing he had 200gr bullets to penetrate all that forest growth.....TFF.

No scale, but the neck came back from the taxidermist at 29 inches about 4 inches below the ears. It is the biggest deer I've ever seen in TX. Taxidermist thought it might go 250 live weight, we will never know though.

But that was a rare deer IMHO.

Northern deer sure seem to be on average not small. Makes sense, to survive teh winter. And if you were that big/fat here you'd die of heat stroke in January.

I always read, seems like that Canadian deer have been pretty big bodied. So much so the antlers seem small in relation.

Last story... went to taxidermy school in WI. Driving one weekend to some place, like Gander mountain or such a deer walks out, I comment, thats big for a doe. Local guy laughs, says thats a fawn. I says BS. Then the mother steps out next to the fawn... LOL. Somewhere around Janesville WI

140" seems about right.
Never scored and obviously never really weighed.

Maybe that guy is only 5' 1"......

Does this one qualify?

Cheater....

Photo shop much? Dudes got spider monkey fingers...Seriously 🤔

Real Deal Mule! That would hang both from my rafters and then wall...Love the big Muley’s 😎

I think was it my goal to shoot a heavy deer, I'd hunt East Central Minnesota. We have big deer all over the state, but there seems to be a little higher percentage of those tall spread out deer that mature out really heavy on the east side. Oddly, I have shot two big deer in NW Minnesota and have so far only killed a 200 lb doe in ECM. The doe I shot last fall went 180 dressed and given another year or two she'd have cleared 200 I expect. I wouldn't look for big antlers in ECM though. It's not at all unusual to have deer over 200 dressed that have small racks. If I had to give it my best shot coming back with a 300 lb dressed deer, I know places where I might could find one, but I want nothing to do with getting it out in one piece so it could be weighed. Better I think to hunt where one of them MIGHT eventually give you a shot but also in places where you can get them out with an ATV. Find all the places that have big buck contests and find where they're killing the most of them.

The guy is behind the deer, farther away from the camera than the deer, this makes the deer look bigger than it actually is. It is a big deer though.

Bwahahahahaha!!!!

Biggest bodied Whitetails? Go North young Man!........Hb

Biggest bodied deer I have taken. Northern MN. Did not get him on a scale but the wife and I had a heck of a time getting him out of the woods.

There are some really big deer in northern Maine. It's great hunting but poor finding.

My first deer as a kid was northern MN nubbie. Field dressed 103#. My cousin shot the doe that was with it. I don’t remember the weight of his but it was considerably bigger.
If I can remember, I’ll post a pic of the doe my son shot this fall in northern WI. We didn’t weigh it but it’s easily 160#. Easily.

No. They need a neck to qualify.

Oh god damn Johnny, I love those big ol salamander necked bucks!!! You guys ever kill him?