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Heaviest doe?
We always talk about how heavy bucks can get, but I've never seen anything online or in a magazine that have mentioned huge does that were harvested. I've shot a couple of does that went between 150-160 lbs. "on hoof", but I know there are some really big does out there. Any stories?
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This is a good topic Ohiobuck. I have been hunting almost 50 years and have killed over 125 whitetails and I have NEVER seen a doe that went over 100 lbs, actual weight on a scale. I know lots of guys have. I know they are around, but I have never seen one. I mentioned this to my processor, who does 800 - 900 deer each season, and he said it is very rare for him to see a doe over 100 lbs, but he has seen them.
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 Ok, my biggest wasn't weighed but I did put one o the scale last yr.I've shot 2 larger, one was weighed at118lbs........ no head no hide and legs cut off at the hocks. It was actually my first a deer and I cut the legs too high the butcher had no where to hag it from.  |
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This Doe thatI shot last year was 123# Field dressed!! I entered it in a Heavy doe contest And they weighed it!
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i seen two the other day that looked as big as bird hunt dogs doe there
i do not understand all the hype on bucks and antler size you can not eat them lol |
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ORIGINAL: bigtim6656 i seen two the other day that looked as big as bird hunt dogs doe there i do not understand all the hype on bucks and antler size you can not eat them lol You cant eat the rack but..........Them big brutes weigh well over 200 lbs. on the hoof around here. I think the MN record is like 500 lbs.;):D |
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true you do get more meat off of a big mature buck then a big mature doe anyone know why
ORIGINAL: Bird Hunt Dog ORIGINAL: bigtim6656 i seen two the other day that looked as big as bird hunt dogs doe there i do not understand all the hype on bucks and antler size you can not eat them lol You cant eat the rack but..........Them big brutes weigh well over 200 lbs. on the hoof around here. I think the MN record is like 500 lbs.;):D |
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I used to process deer for Christmas money, when I was younger, and we weighed on a scale at 305#. She was a freak of nature, the other deer would hang with their heads over 1ft off the ground. This freaks shoulders touched the ground, I could barely get my arms around her chest. Biggest doe I have ever seen. Funny part is this guy said he almost didn't shoot her because he thought she was too small!!! He said he didn't have anything near her to judge size and thought she looked small.
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ORIGINAL: bigtim6656 true you do get more meat off of a big mature buck then a big mature doe anyone know why ORIGINAL: Bird Hunt Dog ORIGINAL: bigtim6656 i seen two the other day that looked as big as bird hunt dogs doe there i do not understand all the hype on bucks and antler size you can not eat them lol You cant eat the rack but..........Them big brutes weigh well over 200 lbs. on the hoof around here. I think the MN record is like 500 lbs.;):D the deer is bigger so you will get more meat. |
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ORIGINAL: nctaxi I used to process deer for Christmas money, when I was younger, and we weighed on a scale at 305#. She was a freak of nature, the other deer would hang with their heads over 1ft off the ground. This freaks shoulders touched the ground, I could barely get my arms around her chest. Biggest doe I have ever seen. Funny part is this guy said he almost didn't shoot her because he thought she was too small!!! He said he didn't have anything near her to judge size and thought she looked small. All the teenagers at my school can only manage to shoot does and they all say the same thing: Oh she weighs around 180lbs.... In reality though i think most big does prolbably weigh around 120 or 130, anything around 150 is a just a hoss |
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305 kinda like the Godzilla buck shot on Indian land that was gross weighted not scaled and was said to weight 450 pounds but was left for days then found lol but i am not saying he is lying about a 305 doe
ORIGINAL: Cay4redneck ORIGINAL: nctaxi I used to process deer for Christmas money, when I was younger, and we weighed on a scale at 305#. She was a freak of nature, the other deer would hang with their heads over 1ft off the ground. This freaks shoulders touched the ground, I could barely get my arms around her chest. Biggest doe I have ever seen. Funny part is this guy said he almost didn't shoot her because he thought she was too small!!! He said he didn't have anything near her to judge size and thought she looked small. All the teenagers at my school can only manage to shoot does and they all say the same thing: Oh she weighs around 180lbs.... In reality though i think most big does prolbably weigh around 120 or 130, anything around 150 is a just a hoss |
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162lbs dressed, shot in early Dec last year.
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i see does harvested every year here in illinois that are 125-150 feild dressed, if it's under 100 lbs, it's usually a yearling or year and half
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The biggest doe I shot weighed 110lbs field dressed. :Dthat's big for TN...;)
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305 is very possible, in the north country. North Maine and New Brunswick have some monsters.
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Last year I shot on that weighed 110 that is a good size for south AL. Most around here that are shot are 90 -100.
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I killed one old doe several years ago with my muzzleloader on a managed hunt at Pelican Island CA, upnear the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. The whole river bottom up there was surrounded by soybean and corn feilds. She weighed 136# feild dressed.If you use the rough estimates of 1/3'rds she was pushing 200# live weight. It was funny because one of the guys in our hunting party shot a nice 2.5 year old 7 point buck and she absolutely dwarfed him!
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about 190 max here on the hoof.
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120-125 dressed. Don't remember the actual weight. Have heard "stories" about them 200 pounders, now there are 300 pounders? Wow...we need to feed em better in Mid-Michigan I guess. Most of the does taken in my area are 80-110 dressed.
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Jim you're full of it.
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Hey Jim 190 on the hoof would be about 160 dressed. Thats a big doe.
And 200lbs live is about 170 dressed........ you would get about 90lbs boneless meat off that one. The biggest deer I have seen went 350lbs live weight and about 300 dressed and it was a huge bodied buck. I can't see any doe going 300 live or dressed. In other words I want to see pics or bust. 300 live wgt would be almost 250lbs dressed...... sorry that a little far fetched to me. [&:] |
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biggest doe i ever shot was 120lbs feild dressed. skin on and not butchered or anything but that was with a rifle too so. she had those fat deposits for the winter going on.
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I have witnesses that saw the scale when I killed a 140 lb doe in Central Alabama. She is one of the biggest deer I have ever killed. Most does around here are much smaller. My last was only 85 lbs.
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Up until a few years ago, they used to weigh eveyr deer checked in. I remember checking one in that I took on MLK's birthday and it weighed 138 dressed.
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I have shot several between 125-135lb dressed
My friend shot one 163lb dressed here in MA a couple of years ago. Big girl! |
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This was one of my biggest. She was 140 pounds dressed. I weigh 230, plus cold weather gearfor comparison:
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Heaviest I killed weighed 104 dressed, pretty big foreastern OK. Average doe around here weighs upper 80's probably (field dressed). A local check station has a big buckand heaviest doe contest every year, last year's winner was 106. Hunted in Effingham, Illinois way back, dang they grow 'em big over there!!
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The biggest doe I have ever seen had 82 lbs of boneless well trimed meat. most mature does I helped dress have around 60 lbs of meat. I have never weighed any....but my guess makes that biggest deer close to 200 as she had an inch of fat over all of her...over 2" on her back. She only had a few teeth left in her....and that is a BIG doe.
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I shot one doe last year that went 150lbs live weight, and that is the largest I've shot. I saw one on Saturday that was about the same size, but she never came out from behind brush for me to get a shot at her.
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