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I killed a doe in northern NY state with my bow that weighed 175lbs field dressed. Same deal, she was real heavy to drag so we decided to weigh her. But northern deer are definitely bigger anyway in general.

Biggest I've personally seen was probably just over 100lbs here in Eastern N.C.
In my part of the world people tend to overestimate the weight of deer.

While I like to prove my marksmanship by shooting 55 pounders, the two biggest weighted (on certified scales) 146 dressed. One in Rhode Island and the other here in Maine.

I have shot two off of our lease that dressed 135 and 127 on the same morning. They had been living rent free on the 18k acre of beans and corn in the river bottoms to the east of our property.

I saw a doe in Montana near the Canada border this summer that was bigger than any buck I have ever killed in Tn. She was easily over 200 on the hoof. Her two fawns were huge also.

The biggest doe i have seen was shot by my bud, J.W. Hilbert. She was weighted after being dressed at 133lbs. he told me that when he saw the deer , he thought it was a buck that had dropped it's antlers, nope, it was a big doe.

At the VFW in Baudette, MN, circa 1989.

I killed one back home in Michigan when I was in my late teens during a deer drive. She was huge, she weighted 174 on a certified scale field dressed. DNR aged her at 6.5 years. Most does from that area hover around the 100lb mark dressed. What was funny is that my best friend killed a nice little 1.5 year old 7 pt on the same drive, same property. His buck weighted only 128lbs field dressed. We got a picture of them laying side bye side in the truck bed and that doe was easily another foot longer in body length. I might see if I can dig out that picture tonight when I get home.

Had 1 on the old place, we called her the "mule".

Big as a good sized buck.

First time I saw her, she walked under a feeder & her back height, was almost up to the feeder spinner !

I killed a 162lb and a friend killed a 164lb doe a few years apart, so far they've been the only does over 160lbs. Scales tell no tales. We've killed 100's of doe's between 120 - 150lbs off our place, sometimes I question if that's really been a good management practice. We've killed doe's on a 10+ to 1 buck ratio for the last 30 years.

Shot a big doe near Norridgewock, Maine in '81. On the way home we stopped at the check station in Kennebunk and she weighed 153 lbs. They said she was the 2nd biggest doe taken so far that season in Kennebec county. Think it was the 2nd week.

I killed one on my property that dressed 168# weighed with scale. She live about 50 yards off the busy road. She had at least 4 years where she produced triplets before going dry. It took me 2 years after that to get her. She was smart. I never got to age her jaw as something drug it off from outside my garage after I butchered her.

Camp is was in participated in the DMAP program for several years.

Every deer killed had live weight recorded.

A big doe for here is 120#.

AVG was prolly 100#.

Go up to north MS / delta where they still farm and the weights go up a good bit.

For comparison, a 180# buck here good size.

Almost 20 yrs or so ago i killed one that weighed 210#.

Huge body deer. Older. Not much for horns.

We used to kill some big does in Ohio in Wayne National Forest back in the Late 80s thru the 90s. Live weights 170-180. That seemed to change sometime after the big Ice storm they had in 2003/5. I cant recall exactly what year. After that ice storm the woods was messed up. I cant say definitively if the ice storm contributed to the does being significantly smaller but we never shot any huge does after that.

Most Does here in S.Texas average 112# to 115# I have killed a few over 120# but not many. Rio7

Here in northcentral LA I've seen a few at 135-145lbs. Big old horse heads on those. 150 is a whopper.

What State?

I don't know what the hell she weighed, but in 2019 I shot an absolute hog. She was every bit as big as my biggest bucks. She probably ranks in the top 5 biggest deer I've ever killed. My biggest buck weighed in at 164 dressed and she was damn near as big. She was dried up, had very few teeth left, and she had 2" of fat on her ass.

Later on January 31, 2020, in the last 15 minutes of that season, I shot another one that was almost as big.

I worked offshore with a guy from Columbia area.

He would say the old guys told him the deer they had were “northern” deer.

Brought down from Wisconsin ( or somewhere) way back when ( early /mid 1900’s) to get the deer herd going.

Resulted in bigger deer and the rut would start earlier compared to our deer in central MS.

Best i remember, their rut would be late Nov / early Dec.

Ours would be around late Dec / early Jan.

Any truth to it? 🤷🤷

Ive got no good pics and no scales, but i shot a nice fat doe last year on opening day out of a stand that has always been good to me. She was hefty, probably 160-170 on the hoof, we had her on the tall lift cleaning her, rafters are around 10' but can only lift 7, had to tie her to the other rafters otherwise she hung low to the ground. Sidenote, neighbors trespassed and took that stand down, not sure if intentional trespass or not since its a shared woods with no well defined boundaries in the woods. Trying to contact them so it can be back up by season this year, which starts in 2 weeks

Yes, I remember reading too - that states used deer from Wisconsin to restock their own herds.

I just googled it, and according to this article Mississippi "used 353 Wisconsin deer and 2,491 native deer in its restocking program..."

Article link - https://countryroadsmagazine.com/outdoors/knowing-nature/the-great-deer-comeback/