ORIGINAL: Pro-Line
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
You got that right! I too weigh all of my deer, I started doing this in 1992. EVERYBODY thinks that they have shot a 200 lb. deer. I'm usually 5 lbs or less when estimating the deer my friends and I have shot. If anything, I'm on the conservative side of estimating weight and score. I don't like exaggeration. I found something different doing this. My heaviest wis. deer weighed 190 and 193 lbs. My heaviest Ill. deer was 220 lbs. A good 3 1/2 from Ill avgs 195-205, where as in my wis. spot, one will avg, 175-185 lbs.. The weird part is that these two spots are less than 40 miles apart. The same food, climate habitat etc. Must be the genetics!?