i think mature would be around 180 or 200 lbs, not 150



Actually the body weight of a deer is a very poor way to determine the age of that deer. The only way to tell if a deer is mature is by looking at its body characteristics and at the deers tooth wear.

Every year I shoot several mature bucks (5 1/2+) each year, and about 90% of them are bucks that I've been watching year after year waiting for them to mature. On occasion I have shot big trophy class bucks that nobody on the ranch had ever seen before. Where did they came from I dont know. But we have alot of big bucks running around that we never see, the only way we know there out there is because of there sheds and sometimes we find there skulls.