This year there has been quite a few adult deer getting shot in at or near the 200 pound dressed wieght. The biggest that I currently know of is posted here at 254 lbs dressed wieght.. Most all deer here are wieghed after being dressed out..

Now getting back to Lanny.. While I am not trying to slam him or you I still will say he is wrong.. When you take in concideration that Maine has no antler restrictions other than 3 inches high a lot of young deer gets shot.. They are included in the average.. That really is not saying a lot as these deer are only 1 1/2 years old.. They are for the table and some want to get it over with as quick as they can.

Now clear cuts are mostly a thing of the past.. So he clearly has you baffled on that one.. Back in the 70s they were going on almost every where.. So we are talking 30 to 40 years ago.. Times have changed.. But today they still do a few clearcuts where all the wood must be used for hog feul only. These areas would be more of a fire concern than anything that would strongly effect our deer herd..


While our record deer was shot back many years ago.. Our second placed deer was shot either in 2010 or 2012 I will need to look that up for a more certain date and wieght on it.. That kind of blows the theory away as well does it not?

While maine is one of the hardest states to hunt we still have our big deer here. I am hoping to get one of them this coming week myself.. I did come close the other day but as we all know close is not close enough.. We all have been seeing a lot of does this year. So hopefully our herd will be improving.. Only the winter will tell the real story though..