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Old 12-24-2006 | 01:31 PM
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Default RE: Average Deer Size in Your Neck of the woods?

I weigh nearly every deer I kill in WV. I've also worked with a butcher and at a school that cuts up deer during hunting season. Let's just say that I've weighed well over a hundred deer.

The largest was 291# dresses...an 8-pt from Ohio that had a 25" spread.
The smallest was 34#. My roommate in college shot it at my farm in WV. It was his first deer with a bow. Not one of his bigger trophies, but a clean ethical kill.

I'd say the average doe in WV is 85-100#, and the average ADULT WV buck being 115-130#. Most 1.5yr old bucks in WV go about 100#. The largest WV deer I've seen and weighed was one I killed in 1988. It was 178# on a good scale. It was an old 8-pt that scored only about 118".

In Ohio, at least where I live, the does have a huge size range. I've seen 3 1/2yr old does that weighed 100lbs...and I've seen a couple that were pushing 185#. Of all the deer I've seen weighed, the biggest doe was #189. She was an absolute monster.

Ohio average...does 120-140....bucks 160-200#, with many bucks going over that number.

I will say one thing....people's weights of their deer is over-guessed more than most fishing stories. I've seen guys hanging out at our butcher's shop talking up a deer's weight to nearly 300#, and on the scale it'll tip out under 175#....it's humbling as hell. LOL
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