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I’m wondering about actual dressed deer weights. No heart or lungs or anything.
In 1967 my dad won a watch for the heaviest deer where we are here in ND. It was weighed the day after he shot it. 267 1/2 pounds. Not much of a rack but a big body. Edk

shot a 7-point back in '06 that weighed 206 field dressed. Got a lot of meat out of that one.

Largest one I have weighed in Nebraska was 204 Field dressed.

I have never weighed one after it was field dressed. When we do weigh them, we weigh them first then dress them. You guys have some Big Deer up North. My biggest was a 10 point that weighed 228 lbs on the hoof, not field dressed. That's a pretty nice deer for the area where it was killed. I'm not sure what percentage of weight loss there is once one is field dressed. But I do know that the gut bucket is pretty heavy with the heart lungs and guts in it. Spent most of my years Deer Hunting field dressing them in the woods before we loaded them up. I never weighed one until I got on a hunting lease about 10 years ago.

Never GAS beyond,
Too big (heavy to drag)
Too small(after the drag, thinking about meat)

My largest whitetail was 210 lbs field dressed. My next heaviest was 180lbs. One of my uncles shot one many years ago that dressed out at 235. Lewis County/western Adirondacks NY.

I guess I should add that my biggest was 212 dressed. Nice deer. Edk

In the New England states I've hunted, deer are typically weighed when checked in. The heaviest deer I've checked in was a 9 pt. taken in southern NH. He dressed 208 lbs. NH has a big buck club every year. To make it the deer has to field dress 200 lbs. or better. That buck was number 22 that season.

My next heaviest was the first deer I took on my property last year. He was an 8 pt. that dressed 173 lbs.

That first deer was early in the NH MZ season. The second was at the tail end of the rut during Mass. shotgun season.

In Miss. we never weigh a deer and to be honest, I've never killed one that I thought would dress out more than 130-140 lbs.

The biggest I shot that was weighed was 208 pounds field dressed, after hanging a week. I’ve shot a couple others that may have been that big or bigger, but were never weighed.

Field dressed.

Big un. I haven't made the biggest bucks in Maine yet but I know the dressed, certified scale weight record bere is 365. Known as the Bingham buck for the place be was shot. I believe 1955 in Bingham, ME. We e. Even chasing a ghost for a number of years where we hunt and I guess him well in excess of 200 based upon evidence we have found. Maine tags a lot of deer over 230 each year.

Any guesses?

A bunch. That thing looks like a finished beef

We ran a state check station when my dad had the gas station. I weighed and checked hundreds of deer while I was in high school and college. The biggest buck I ever checked went 178 dressed and he was an absolute monster for our area. Largest doe in our books went 124.

Biggest I ever personally killed was a big 9 pointer that was 22” inside and he weighed 132 dressed. Our average size for a normal 3-5 year old buck around here is about 125 dressed.

Dressed? How big are you? 5'7" or 6'8"?


It looks like Saskatchewan to me, for some reason.

I saw 2 legit over 200 deer at a "buck pole" type event. Both were massive UP bucks and one had what could best be described as a mane - about 4-5 inches of hair that stood straight up down its neck.

240#

A pig


270 lb

ERK;
Good morning sir, I hope the weekend behaved itself for you and you're well.

Sorry for the possibly regional, north of the medicine line question here, but when you or the respondents say "dressed" does that mean hanging carcass weight to you folks?

In my experience in Saskatchewan growing up and then for sure here in BC, we'll weigh the carcass going into the cooler, but if anyone locally weighs them with say head, hide and feet on, I've not heard of it.

Lastly I'd be remiss if I didn't clarify that at our house we weigh using a bathroom scale and will tare the meat chunk holder's weight and then stand on the scale with the part of the carcass before putting it into the cooler which is a modified fridge, so carcasses don't fit into it whole.

Depending upon which map you look at, we've either got Ocherous or Northwestern whitetail here. I'm not sure, but haven't seen any personally that might exceed 150lb carcass weight.

This one was 138lb hanging.



This one was aged at 7½ and was a pound or two either way of the one above.



Our mule deer likewise aren't as big bodied or antlered as those on the prairies. In nearly 40 years of chasing mulies in southern BC, helping out some taxidermist friends for a few years and also cutting and wrapping game for friends and family since '89, I can recall perhaps 2 mulie bucks that exceeded 200lb into the cooler.

A good mature mulie here will go right around 150lb carcass. This guy was the biggest bodied deer I've killed and we packed 145lb of meat off the mountain for him - but that does include the leg bones in that total. I'd make a guess he was pushing 190lb carcass.



For comparison and I'm aware these aren't the best photos - sorry - here's a 90-100lb 2 point on Carly the Appy on a freezer filling morning off the mountain behind the house.



Here's the biggest bodied buck I killed off the horse, an ancient 3 point who had zero fat anywhere and the two front teeth looked like he'd been chewing a can of Copenhagen everyday since he was a fawn! Just two worn down, brown stained stubs.



On that ancient buck, I weighed the bags of boned meat plus the 4 legs with bones in and it was just under 150lb, so he'd have been pushing that 190lb carcass I'd think.

Thanks for the thread and all the best to you all in your hunts.

Dwayne

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