ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Matt that's a nice deer!
I'd love to kill me a bruiser.....but with our herd dynamic the way it is....I've got a bunch of lovers and not fighters.
My buddy also has a QDMA "scale" that's supposed to be pretty accurate. You measure the buck's (deer's)chest ....and then there's a formula for live weight. My gambrel has a scale.
Jeff, I wouldn't put much faith in that chest measurement thing. I help out a buddy of mine who is a taxi during gun season. There are guys that bring in deer that they say by the chest measurement weighs XXX. Well he has a de-liar (scale), that tells the real story. And rarely do the 2 weights come close to one another. Just like people, some deer carry their weight in different places. And some are longer than others. Some of the bucks we skin out never get their noses off the ground when we hang them. Others are a foot or more off the ground. The only people I believe when talking about weight are the ones that have actually had them on a scale.
If you can do both this year and check it out.