ORIGINAL: WestVirginiaBrent
ORIGINAL: petropedro
ORIGINAL: bronko22000
Looks to be smaller bodied than mine. I would guess dressed 155 - 165. Petro - why do you doubt 200 lb PA deer? Granted - they are far and few between. In my 40+ years I've maybe seen 5 that went over 200. Mine being the last one.
i have seen 200lb deer before on a deer farm. what people forget is that they bulk on fat during the winter.1lb of fat compared to 1 lb of muscle in mass = the fat takes up 18% more room than muscle does. them deer are mostly fat and then lighter than actually if they was muscle. also have you ever cut up your own deer?one rear quarter does not go 25 lbs alone. its not hard to figure out if you ever butchered your own animals. fat weighs less than muscle. i do believe we have true 200lb deer here in pa. but they are very rare to see. in my time butchering, i have yet to see a 200lb dressed out buck. 195 was the closest and it was a monster that many would guess 300+.
Where do you come up with this stuff? I've butchered 34 deer of my own and probably at least 30 more of my friends and my results are about the exact opposite of yours. Rear quarters are often 25 pounds or more, deer burn fat in the winter, not bulk up. Deer have little fat to begin with, even your farmland bucks, and the ones I have taken the weight from fat isn't even worth mentioning. Deer muscle is dense andthat buck has plenty of it.
Here's some jerky meat I sliced up this year as proof that at least one of us has actually butchered a deer.
Here's what 30 pounds of sliced meat looks like.
what deer did you take that from?