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Is there a way to get a rough estimate of the live weight of a deer - from the weight of the carcass?

Weighed a buck at 120 pounds, he'd been field dressed, skinned, head & part of the neck cut off and all four lower legs removed.

Wonder what he weighed alive? Just curious. Never weighed a deer carcass before.

Thanks, Guy

Put him back together and weigh him.

I'll be over here wearing the A-hole of the night crown if anybody needs me.

Sounds like a scene from the movie Goodfellas

I'd say tac another 40lbs on and you'd be close....just from my experience.

I measure the girth and use this chart (pdf file) from Penn State to get me close.

With domestic pigs I have heard you loose roughly 60% when in the state you describe.

If that's true and it also works for deer then 120 lbs/.4 = 300 pounds.

Was this a good sized deer? Does that sound about right?

300 pounds is really freaking big.

Just say'n

'Bout 170lbs on the hoof.

Is this a serious question?

Somewhere between 220 and 240, depending on exactly how the field dressing and disassembling was done. On big Kansas whitetails, our processing of whole deer at check stations resulted in a reduction in weight right around 50% for those who only wanted to take home the carcass without the legs, skin and head. We cleaned things up pretty good, though. I have seen deer done in the field that came in to the processor that would have retained a greater percentage of the live weight.

just guessing here, but I have 20 years of processing experience.

so you have a 120 'torso' ??

lets say 30lbs of guts
15-20 lbs of hide (minus head)
cape/head/neck 25-30 lbs
pile of lower legs 12lbs

120
+
30
20
30
12


i don't know exacts- deer are different slightly geographically

errr ummmmmmm. how bout 210lbs ?

I know they aint built like hogs so forget that hypothesis

ask deer asassian the combined weight of the missing parts would be a weight he would be real familar with

you'd have to go check all the boat ramps and ditches to get the missing parts

Whatever I get in meat and multiply it by 3 is in the neighborhood.

Boococky measures girth and length.

You would actually have to kill a deer over 80lbs to know how to guess the weight.....stick on a topic you know something about like 1840's weaponry

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i still say deerasassian needs to give the final answer on this


you no gut
weave guts in

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ain't you got some bondo that needs sandin on some lowrider truck. grape ape.

The Penn State "deer tape" is supposedly based on the results from lots of deer, but if so they must have really different whitetails there than they have in Montana.

I tested the tape on five deer last fall, three mature does and two mature bucks. We have an accurate freight scale in our garage to weigh animals, and the field-dressed weight predicted by the tape was consistently MUCH higher than the actual weigh on our scale. As a typica example, the tape estimated the bigger buck's field-dressed weight at 198 pounds, and the actual weight was under 160.