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05-16-2008, 02:20 PM
#5
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 7,208
RE: What does your average, adult whitetail wiegh in your area ?
On average ours don't live long enough to for me to get a true understanding of what a mature buck in PA weighs.
And I go by dressed weights, live weight would be a huge guess.
But from the few mature bucks I do know the weights of...dressed out 185-200 is about normal. Occasionally you hear guys say 220 dressed, but I have a real tough time believing that from the pictures that go along with them.
Now if you took just what the average buck shot in PA weighs, it would be more like 130-150.
Mature does will usually go 130-140 dressed.
My heaviest buck went 190 & doe was 135-140.
And I go by dressed weights, live weight would be a huge guess.
But from the few mature bucks I do know the weights of...dressed out 185-200 is about normal. Occasionally you hear guys say 220 dressed, but I have a real tough time believing that from the pictures that go along with them.
Now if you took just what the average buck shot in PA weighs, it would be more like 130-150.
Mature does will usually go 130-140 dressed.
My heaviest buck went 190 & doe was 135-140.
05-16-2008, 02:36 PM
#7
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Central Michigan
Posts: 547
RE: What does your average, adult whitetail wiegh in your area ?
If you ask the average hunter here incentral Michigan,you will find out that 90% of the bucks they kill weigh 200 lbs live or more. In reality the average doe weighs 100-120 lbs live and since 80+percent of the bucks are 1 1/2 years old when killed, you're looking at at 140-150 bs live. Very few bucks make it to maturity, 3 1/2 or more, but of the ones that do, 180-210 in this area of the state. Add 15 to 20 lbs to everything from southern Michigan.
05-16-2008, 02:40 PM
#8
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
RE: What does your average, adult whitetail wiegh in your area ?
ORIGINAL: DropTine249
Average wieght of a mature whitetail in your area.
and
Feel free to list the heaviest whitetail you have taken.
Here in my area of NJ, there is mostly private farmland. Seems that, from speaking with other hunters, the average wieght of an adult whitetail is in the 230lbs for bucks, range. 150lbs for doe range
One hunter claimed and was backed by several other hunters to have harvested a buck that wieghed 270. Who knows.
My 2.5yo buck last season dressed at 161 lbs and I killed 2 doe last year that dressed in the same area, one doe tipped the scales at 176, dressed. and the other I didnt wiegh, but she was BIG. Very rare, for me anyway.
I see these guys in the mid-west smacking 300lbs bucks and 250lbs doe !!! Thats BEAST !!
Average wieght of a mature whitetail in your area.
and
Feel free to list the heaviest whitetail you have taken.
Here in my area of NJ, there is mostly private farmland. Seems that, from speaking with other hunters, the average wieght of an adult whitetail is in the 230lbs for bucks, range. 150lbs for doe range
One hunter claimed and was backed by several other hunters to have harvested a buck that wieghed 270. Who knows.
My 2.5yo buck last season dressed at 161 lbs and I killed 2 doe last year that dressed in the same area, one doe tipped the scales at 176, dressed. and the other I didnt wiegh, but she was BIG. Very rare, for me anyway.
I see these guys in the mid-west smacking 300lbs bucks and 250lbs doe !!! Thats BEAST !!
My biggest doe dressed out at 120lbs.
My biggest buck dressed out at 210lbs.
05-16-2008, 03:19 PM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Northern Idaho's Panhandle
Posts: 4,436
RE: What does your average, adult whitetail wiegh in your area ?
I've weighed both my brothers and my bucks over the past ten years. 3.5 year olds and up have weighed in from 160 lbs dressed to 240 lbs dressed.. the average falling around 185-190 dressed in our areas.