Size of a mule deer?
10-24-2010, 07:08 PM
#11
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: South Dakota
Posts: 157
Geeze... I really don't know... Most mulies that I have seen were about the size of the whitetails I have seen here in NY.. A big buck might dress out 200 lb or so... The EARS are a lot wider, as are the the racks, but the size of the deer's body isn't a whole lot different..
10-25-2010, 04:16 AM
#12
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Colorado
Posts: 200
Geeze, Mac, you must have some pretty small whitetails there in Colorado..
So.... Where I come from, whitetail bucks average 150 to 200 pounds live weight... So if Colorado whitetails are appx the same size as NY whitetails, according to your estimate, ( mule deer are 1.5 to 2 times bigger) Colorado mule deer bucks would average from 225 to 400 pounds....
Are you sure you're not talking about cow elk..??...
I've only hunted out west 7 or 8 times, but the mule deer I have seen in New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado have been nowhere near that big.. Maybe I've only seen small ones...
So.... Where I come from, whitetail bucks average 150 to 200 pounds live weight... So if Colorado whitetails are appx the same size as NY whitetails, according to your estimate, ( mule deer are 1.5 to 2 times bigger) Colorado mule deer bucks would average from 225 to 400 pounds....
Are you sure you're not talking about cow elk..??...
I've only hunted out west 7 or 8 times, but the mule deer I have seen in New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado have been nowhere near that big.. Maybe I've only seen small ones...
I grew up in the midwest where there were no mule deer, only white tails. Those were much bigger than the white tails in Colorado.
I've seen Colorado mule deer get up to 275 pounds, though. I've heard claims of 350 but never seen it for myself.
