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Wow. Those sorta deer are dream bucks! Awesome.

Killed this buck a long time ago, in N.W. Colorado. Rio7

Not huge by any standard but big, old, and tough for the area he was taken. He was the alpha buck for the area. Big bodied. I got him the year we lost High Brass. The 760 was his favorite rifle and used his handload.

Day-Um!

Nice one. Even Wooters said big is what’s big where you hunt. Old ones are always tough to take, even old does.

I have said the same. Some areas just don't grow 180" deer.

We have some big deer right around home but go 50 miles or so North and you see even better deer. Go south and you will see some nice bucks but overall not as many as around home.

Damn!!!!

Well truth be told if you go back and read the OP, this wasn’t about score. It was about “big” deer.

I posted somewhere in there a buck i shot in MN in 2014z it probably doesn’t score 100” but it weighed 204 pounds field dressed.

What tzone said. Field dressed.

That’s a big fella there no matter what you choose to go by.

That’s pretty awesome that you guys get to kill those monster bodied deer, unless you have to drag them. .
The absolute biggest bodied buck I ever checked when we had the state check station was 178lb dressed, an old bruiser 11 pointer.
Over the years of checking deer and filling in the books I found that the average buck killed here weighs about 115 dressed. The average mature buck, nice but not huge just the ones you can tell are 4-5 years old, will go about 130 dressed.
Does average about 80, biggest I ever checked was 124 and the biggest I ever shot was 101.

We do get some nice racks, lots of nutrition and a 2 buck a year limit with only one being a rifle kill, plus generally easy winters. Everyone has a trail cam pic of a 150 or better incher coming to their feeder but most of them don’t get killed.

I jettisoned the cams years ago and never really started with the feeders. I instead decided I really like to just hunt and when I go out to hunt the goal is an old mature buck. They’re smart and fun to try to outwit, anybody can kill a forkie or basket rack.

This guy won’t make the book and he probably weighed 130lb dressed. But he was scar faced and worn toothed, had a doe he was riding herd on and fending off a younger buck. Plus I had my favorite accomplice in tow.

Hey Kid

You got 2 dandy’s there.


Jerry

Hey that’s a cool buck!

I think the spirit of this thread is big where you’re from. A 178 pound bucks is over 200 live weight for sure.

The 204# buck I did have to drag quite a ways. But I shot him at like 11:45 AM. I think IIRC I got to my truck about 4 PM. I had to drag him about 1/2 mile before I could load it on the wheeler. Luckily the wheeler was about the same height as the tailgate.

Agreed. That picture is worth 200” in my book!

Interesting forked horn blacktail I got this weekend. Saw him first in the morning and finally got him about 5 pm that evening. Great hunt.

Man, what a buck.

Looking at that picture, it looks like a P64 Supergrade with an old Weaver on top.. That is one excellent picture. Thank you for sharing.

Nice Buck !
what caliber is the 99?

Holy Smokes what a Mulie !

Thanks. It was a really great hunt. The 99 is a 284. I load it with 4831 SC and 145 grain Speer BTSP. Probably the most consistent hunting rifle/ammo combo I've ever used.

Good job, Roy !

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