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I believe the MN record in 401 dressed.

In my given area the average 4 pointer mule deer seems to push 225-250. Haven't weighed live weight but getting 100-125lbs of deboned meat off a buck gives you a good idea that they're pretty big.

I also agree with the statement of racks looking smaller on big bucks. Here's another buck that threw my friend and I off. We thought he was smaller until we walked up to it and realized it had a really big body.

You have a lovely smile in this one.

Big ass buck deer, that's for sure.

Pretty effective camouflage eh

Way COOL!

Pig is RIGHT

This is probably the biggest bodied mule deer I ever killed. Didn't weigh him, but you can compare him to tiny little #265 me...

Bayfield co. WI

Check station and butcher both estimated over 400 dressed. It took four guys , two in pulling harnesses and another two pulling on a limb tied across his antlers to get him out of the woods.

400# dressed? LOL.

I didn't know shaman was a butcher.

Great buck, Shrap!

There was a book published in the 1980’s called “ Colorado’s Biggest Bucks And Bulls.

It had a photo from the early 1900’s of three raghorn bulls and a muley buck hanging on a meat pole.

The buck wasn’t much smaller than the bulls.

My dad has a whitetail buck from northern Illinois when he was visiting relatives that weighed in at the check station at 220lbs gutted.

Weighing game isn’t really a thing around here. I’m curious about what some of the bigger ones I’ve killed would have went though. Kinda hard to know as they’re usually brought out in little pieces.

This one is big for the area, a high desert buck that usually don’t get huge bodies. Makes the young buck behind him look like a miniature of the species.



This one was a butterball, no picture of his whole body, wish I did it was marvelous 😂. high country Colorado buck.



One of the biggest I ever killed I had a short drag to the raft, but I could hardly make it a few feet at a time pulling on him, gave up. Quartered him and just packed him the 200 yards 😂. Can’t find a picture of that one but I know I’ve killed mature cow elk with smaller bodies.




Nicknamed this buck the mayor. Seen him two years in a row, had a knack of finding someone’s yard to hang out in during the hunting season.

I hadn’t looked through that book in years. Just pulled it down and thumbed through it. Didn’t see the picture you’re referring to (didn’t look very carefully) but several in there made me grin. One was a meat pole of a hunting camp that had cougar, bighorn,bear,deer and elk on it. Must have been a hell of a good time!

The first big-bodied mule deer buck I killed was in the mountains alongside the Idaho Panhandle. The antlers weren't huge, about a 22" spread with medium-long tines, but field-dressed the buck weighed 232 pounds after "aging" for two weeks in my garage, where it probably lost at least 10 pounds due to moisture evaporation. (It was taken on opening day of the rifle season, which in most of Montana takes place in late October, well before the rut. It tasted great!)

Have killed a couple bigger ones since, though exactly how much they weighed I don't know. One was another mountain buck about 25 miles south of Glacier Park, killed right around timberline, again on opening day--which had a body very similar in size to a cow elk Eileen took a couple weeks later.

Got a similar-size buck in Alberta in 2009. Didn't get to weigh it before butchering, but got 130 pounds of boned meat--and the rule-of-thumb for most big game is the boned meat is about a third of live weight.

Open the land of small deer, southern New York State. But about 25 years ago, I went hunting with a friend of mine up in New Hampshire. We had to bring any harvest to a check station that day..

I shot a doe that field dressed went 196, the Rangers were amazed.

I killed one (whitetail) here in North Alabama that weighed 204 field dressed , about 10 years ago . That should be about 250 on the hoof. 200+ field dressed is very rare for our area.

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