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Old 12-22-2006, 02:46 PM
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Pygmy
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Default RE: Average Deer Size in Your Neck of the woods?

I don't know about live weight, but we've weighed a lot of field dressed deer over the years...

Here in Steuben County, NY, a 1.5 year old buck will usually dress out from 100 to 120 pounds...A 2.5 year old will weigh from 130 to 150 dressed.. Anything over 150 is a 3.5 year old or older...Typically a mature buck will weigh 150 to 175, dressed... I've hunted here since the early 60s, and the heaviest buck I've ever seen on the scales weighed 185 dressed, and he was killed early in bow season when he was rolling in fat..

I've heard reliable reports of local bucks that dressed over 200, but I have yet to actually see one...Most 200 lb + bucks reported around here were weighed with the EYEBALLS rather than with the scales...

Any doe around here that weighs over 100-110 dressed is a pretty big doe...
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