Calculating Deer Weight
 

Thanks to "Tracer" on CrossbowHunting for this:

Chart for Calculating Deer Weight in the Field
Measure all the way around the deers chest/belly/back just behind its front legs to get the girth. Print out the chart, use a soft tape, put them in a baggie to carry with you .

Chest/Girth (in.) Live Wt. Field-Dressed Lbs. Edible Meat

32 102 80 45

33 110 87 50

34 118 91 54

35 126 99 57

36 135 104 61

37 146 115 66

38 157 126 71

39 169 135 74

40 182 144 80

41 195 156 88

42 210 170 94

43 228 182 103

44 244 198 110

45 267 214 120

46 290 233 130

47 310 251 139

48 340 272 153

Source: Penn State Dept. of Animal Science and PA Game Commission
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RE: Calculating Deer Weight
 

Excellent!

RE: Calculating Deer Weight
 

awshucks,
Your deer weight calculating chart is probably accurate at least until it comes to the "edible meat" numbers.
I was a deer processor for years and my brother and nephew still do it. We saw these charts before and done some tests of our own.
We would take a head shot deer, for optimum ediblemeat,
weight it field dressed then work it up. We do notuse a saw, only knives, and weremove all bones, fat andsinew. Even with head shot deer the best we could come up with was between 25-28 percent edible meat. Then if one or both front shoulders were bloodied from the shot,edible meatdropped to 20% or below. We did this test on small and large deer and the numbers were consistent.

xbowbarry

RE: Calculating Deer Weight
 

Dan don't you have to add 20 pounds to those weights to account for the human aspect. Everyone of them weighs more in the telling of the story. LOL. It's like fish.
But seriously I find the easiest way for me to do it is I just heft them onto my shoulder and stand on the scale. A little simple math and I have a very accurate weight. They generally fall into the 200 to 300pound zone. Well before the math anyway...

RE: Calculating Deer Weight
 

Dan that is a good chart. Put it up at the top so we have it. Its good info like that we get and then forget after time.

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cool.....ty for the post dan.:)

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Been hunting one of these for years and found it on ebay, I bought one and thought maybe one of yawl might want one.

http://cgi.ebay.com/WHITETAIL-DEER-WEIGHT-TAPE-BUCK-SIZE-ESTIMATION-ANTLER_W0QQitemZ280104782536QQihZ018QQcategoryZ383 QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

Martin

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cool !!