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Originally Posted by Tom264
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that is a hoss


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Originally Posted by Tom264
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that is a hoss


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Originally Posted by digger44

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I've killed two that taped at 240 each (on the hoof). But a friend's wife killed one that was scaled at over 400# in Missouri

I know, I didn't believe it either.


Your friend lied or didn't use a scale or she shot an elk.


Or she really shot a 400# whitetail. Could be. Weird stuff happens. She did have it scaled, and it wasn't an elk.

There is a tape measure for "weighing" whitetails. Better than the hairy-eye ball method. You can probably google it. I bought mine for $1 from Pennsylvania game and fish or whatever they call themselves.


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Toledo scales

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we weigh about 200 does a year here on the ranch i havent looked at my records but just off hand i would say they have run from 110# to 145#, that is not field dressed,after they are skinned and dressed we weigh them again before we put them in the cooler. we also collect the lower jaw, and age each doe we kill.rio7

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I shot an "average looking" mature doe with my longbow a few years ago. She was either 121 or 122 after field dressing and hanging overnight in a cooler.

Added: That was back home in Indiana...

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dressed 138, bowkill. Killed a couple dozen dressed in the 120's, all in Middle Tennessee.


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can't say,..but the oldest one was aged at over 9 yrs....

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For giggles my family starting weighing most of our deer over a decade ago. We typically shoot 20 deer a year or more. A doe weighing 165 live is big. Anything more is uncommon. The two biggest does shot were each 190 live and they were HUGE. After weighing hundreds of deer I can count on one hand the does weighing more than 175 live. That's just the facts and my neck of the woods. I love shooting a few big old gals every year!!

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Da bullshiit is strong on dis thread. A 400# doe my stinkin ass. If u gonna lie tell a belivable lie. Damn!


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173 lbs dressed, Ft. Chaffee Arkansas, she was a beast.

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Whitetails here in S. Wis are at least as big as any I've seen in many other states. Biggest doe I've seen here was 170# gutted.
Most BIG "mature cow does" weigh around 150 gutted.
I would bet the majority of the does killed here are around 115 - 130.

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We ran a research project on Fort Riley in Kansas back in the late 1970s in which we collected ten animals each month. We had several does that weighed 250+ lbs live weight. I think one was over 280, but that was a long time ago and I no longer have the raw data.


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Mine biggest weighed 140#, field dressed. She was hanging around with 2-3 other does and their fawns all season and she towered over teh other does in that little herd. I witnessed her being a cagey and mean old biddy and decided the herd would be better off without her.


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150 dressed with a bow

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Shot one a few years back that would have gone 200 live She was huge.

Saw one last year I wanted bad. I was set up on a doe with two fawns and this really, really dark doe trots past the one I was fixing to shoot. The dark one was half again bigger. A mature doe with two fawns here will typically run about 150. I saw the dark one again last week in a hay field next to a 6 foot round bale, and she's every bit the size of a big buck. She's been hanging out in the vicinity of a new stand I built. I'll be on the lookout for her in a month or so.

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140 lbs around here is real big. I had one weigh in at 147 lbs one time, but most run around 110-120


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Was chastised in my younger days by my farmer kin, because I would not shoot a baldy. Then when I finally entered the slaughter fraternity in my 40s and began killing does, they criticised me for mostly shooting little fellers. I call 'em vealers and they're mighty tender and tasty.

One year I thumped a big doe running with two fawns of the year and a cousin agreed that I had killed a pretty big doe (for me, anyway). Would guess she went a good 130lbs, but I've seen a few that were bigger.

Got one out back here at home, that'd go at least 150lbs and she "rules the roost" in these parts. Lately she's been up on her hind legs doing quite a bit of boxing, when they come in to feed on our apples. She figures they're all her apples, apparently? Don't think I've ever seen a stouter doe in PA?

Having passed my mid-60s, the little fellers are looking good again. Not enough spunk nor knees left, to be dragging dead 130lb does around, when there are plenty of 80 pounders to be had.


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My first deer with a bow was a for she was 197 field dressed shot her in the neck while she was lookin at me when I was 13


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The biggest doe we have taken on our place in the past 6 years was a 157 lb (on the hoof) doe that a kid I take hunting killed. That is a big doe for south Arkansas...the bad part is that she wasnt the biggest one in the herd...she was the first one to turn broadside.

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