jbrodie7

What is the average size of a buck? My friend has shot two nice bucks in the past couple years. The first weighed in at 305 pounds field dressed with several witnesses at the check station. The deer he shot this year weighed around 260-270 pounds. Looking at different wieghts that people post for their bucks it isnt even close. Most are usually around 180- 200 pounds. Could it be because of different food sources or are the deer around here just huge.

Dalejrfan

I am thinking the deer he has shot are just huge, becouse all deer consist of the same diet although the deer around your area might get more of what they grow on best. I dunno that was just me thinking!!(and thats scary)

Rack-attack

its your first day..........so I will let you slide on that one....

Certain areas of the country - due to genetics and diet produce some big, big deer.

Jbrodie7 - Where are you from??

jbrodie7

I am from Illinois. i read that one guy shot a buck that was 150 lbs and said it was really big. It was just small for buck around here. I didnt know if that is big for a buck or if what we are shooting are really big because the average buck around here is around 200 lbs.

Legacy357

in central pa here, the buck i shot this year was pretty big and i think it weighed like 180 or so pounds. most of the other bucks i shot were like 120-140lbs

jbrodie7

wow i guess there is a big difference in the bucks depending on where you live. I guess its kinda nice hunting around here.

HNTNWHTTAIL4LF

I also live in illinois and the biggest field dressed buck i have taken was 189lbs... So if you guys average 200 wow..thats pretty darn good..

What parts of IL you from jbrodie?

p.s. What the heck you guys feeding them...lol

aeroslinger

I think I read there are 16 or more different subspecies of deer in North America and they have varying characteristics including size. Generally, the further north, the bigger the animal. I think that's called Bergman's law or something. I'm sure somebody on here knows more.

jbrodie7

I live just outside of galesburg which is in knox county. we dont necessariy average 200 lbs but its pretty common here

WV Hunter

Our deer average 80-120lbs dressed. Real WHOPPERS