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I've never been one to pay too much attention to field dressed weights of deer. Half the time I butcher them myself and have no way to weigh them.
I did, however, shoot what looked to me like a pretty large doe a few weeks back. I took her in to be processed and weighed in at 125lbs (field dressed/internals out).

While this seemed like a pretty good size to me, I am curious what you guys have found your dressed does weigh?

An average mature doe in my area of CT is 100 - 110 lbs. My son shot one that was 140 lbs about 10 years ago. I shot one in Maine back when there used to be check stations on the Maine Turnpike that weighed 163 lbs. The biologist told me it was the 2nd biggest doe they weighed from Kennebec county that year. It was 6 1/2 or 7 1/2 years old. Worst tasting deer I ever killed.

in my area of MS,

120# does is big. Delta deer will go bigger.

120# / 180# buck is big for here.

According to the mndnr the average doe weighs 140 on the hoof so 140 field dressed would be pretty big. I've seen some big does but either out out of season or no permit.

I'll add, live weights are what i meant.

Ive never weighed one after skiinng / gutting to compare before / after

In the piney woods of north Louisiana, a really big one will go 130-140, live weight. Most are 110-120lb. The bigger ones have extra long noggins.

I shot a really long faced doe weighed 176 dressed. very strong tasting. most does here weigh 110 or so dressed

The average mature does I have been shooting in Northern VA hang at 80-90 pounds field dressed. With spikes going about the same. A 100 pound dressed doe here would be at the top end.

A average mature buck around here hangs at 110-125 field dressed.

About ten years ago I shot a doe on MCB Quantico that dressed at 57 pounds and was jaw bone aged by the base biologist at 6.5 years old.

I have a good scale in the garage. On average I can get 45%(+/-3%) of the field dressed weight in usable meat of most whitetail deer here in VA. (Not including heart and liver) I do strip all the useable meat and trim off all the fat to get those averages.

So far this season, I have four down and would like to have one more before the season ends.

A big doe here would be 110-120 live. Killed one a few years ago that weighed 143. She looked like a camel laid out on the ground.
GreggH

I shot one in October one year in central WI farm country that was 151 dressed.

My some has shot a few bigger or what seemed like it anyway but we’ve never weighed them.

Thinking back, don't know if we've ever weighed a deer. Basically just score them by how many times we had to stop and rest, dragging them to the truck.

Killed a few dozen.
Avg dressed weight is 105-110.
Biggest was 131 dressed.
Have heard of some a bit bigger, up to 150.

100 is fine table fare IMHO.
Those bigger have been fine.

Shot one at 104# that wasnt fit to serve to a stray dog.
Dunno why. Appeared fine.

I had a beater CJ5.....no dragging

BTW, big bucks around here, IMHO dress 200# or more.

I would agree. Big deer in the area we hunt, people start paying attention at 180 and weight definitely gets mentioned if they're 200.

Saw one at 207 that had, what can best be described as a mane running down his neck. Like a mohawk of hair 4 inches or so tall, right down the neck to shoulders.

Probably 15 years ago I shot a doe here that dressed 150lbs, she was HUGE. Her head looked like it was off a mule......

I shot a little 8 pt w a mane. Around 150# dressed. Coukd see it sticking up and he was trotting towards me about 75 yards away.

Have no way of weighing dressed deer so go my how much meat we get. Average doe is maybe 50lbs. Few years ago brother shot one that went 75 lbs meat. She was flat out large.

Growing up almost any deer that we killed was weighed once dressed and back at the house. In those days in southern Michigan our average adult doe field dressed weight was 110-130lbs. One year I killed one that the DNR aged at 6-8 years old that stretched the scale to 180. She was a horse. My buddy took a nice 7pt the same day, on the same property that only weighed in at 130 and she dwarfed it by almost a foot in length.
Living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan it wasn't uncommon for us to have 130-150lb does.
Moving to Kentucky(Fort Campbell) put me on smaller bodied deer. Average adult doe weight was 100-115lbs.
Moving to Colorado (Fort Carson) on the front range the whitetail does averaged 110-130 in weight. Mule deer does looked to be about the same but I never drew a doe tag, only buck.
Moving to West Virginia adult does average 90-110lbs.

I think a lot has to do where they come from and what they eat. I've seen some deer down in Georgia on Ft. Benning when I was down there for school that were straight up tiny. I would of guessed the many of the adult does would dress around 75lbs or so.

These two were real trophies. 34&36 lbs dressed.



Long drag out too.

-Jake

Assuming you are talking a Whitetail doe, I called a hunter in our Whitetail deer camp who keeps track of deer weights and racks and he got back to me with a 2009 doe that weighed 156 lbs. field dressed. He went on to say that the average for a field dressed doe in his records was 117 lbs..