RE: Average Deer Size in Your Neck of the woods?
 

I weigh nearly every deer I kill in WV. I've also worked with a butcher and at a school that cuts up deer during hunting season. Let's just say that I've weighed well over a hundred deer.

The largest was 291# dresses...an 8-pt from Ohio that had a 25" spread.
The smallest was 34#. My roommate in college shot it at my farm in WV. It was his first deer with a bow. Not one of his bigger trophies, but a clean ethical kill.

I'd say the average doe in WV is 85-100#, and the average ADULT WV buck being 115-130#. Most 1.5yr old bucks in WV go about 100#. The largest WV deer I've seen and weighed was one I killed in 1988. It was 178# on a good scale. It was an old 8-pt that scored only about 118".

In Ohio, at least where I live, the does have a huge size range. I've seen 3 1/2yr old does that weighed 100lbs...and I've seen a couple that were pushing 185#. Of all the deer I've seen weighed, the biggest doe was #189. She was an absolute monster.

Ohio average...does 120-140....bucks 160-200#, with many bucks going over that number.

I will say one thing....people's weights of their deer is over-guessed more than most fishing stories. I've seen guys hanging out at our butcher's shop talking up a deer's weight to nearly 300#, and on the scale it'll tip out under 175#....it's humbling as hell. LOL

RE: Average Deer Size in Your Neck of the woods?
 

a mature buck would field dress about 200 pounds. the doe i shot this year dressed 130. the racks depends on genetics but there are some big bucks. ive seen some really nice 2 1/2 already 10pt. so they will get big if no body shots them.

RE: Average Deer Size in Your Neck of the woods?
 

In my part of PA, a doe will run 100-130# dressed with a few real big ones pushing 140#.
1.5 bucks run about 115-130, with mature bucks topping out 185 to low 200#

RE: Average Deer Size in Your Neck of the woods?
 

I would say our does go about 75 to 120 and the bucks averaging 150.

I don't want to even guess what the "High Fences" weigh in at.

RE: Average Deer Size in Your Neck of the woods?
 

Our avg doe is about 120 and avg buck is about 170. The buck will have a rack that looks like a yearling from the Northern states. A good 8 pointer here will have 12 to 16" spread and 7-10" G2's.

I have taken a few over 200lbs, but very few.

RE: Average Deer Size in Your Neck of the woods?
 

Texas Hill Country, mature does' live weight averages about 85-100 lbs. Mature bucks, depending on the time of season, run anywhere from 120's to 160's live weight. They're heavier earlier in the season, but, run off a lot of weight chasing does. The heaviest buck taken in the last 5 years was 183 lbs. No others have been above the 160's.

RE: Average Deer Size in Your Neck of the woods?
 

Where do hunt to get deer that big I also hunt in Alberta, but I never see bucks over 220 tops

RE: Average Deer Size in Your Neck of the woods?
 

We don't judge ours by antler measurement, we judge them by body weight.

RE: Average Deer Size in Your Neck of the woods?
 

The avg buck goes 165-175 pounds dressed but many well over 200+.

And the does go about 120-125....

Of course the bucks I miss are probaby in the 400-450 pound range...;)

RE: Average Deer Size in Your Neck of the woods?
 

You got that right! I too weigh all of my deer, I started doing this in 1992. EVERYBODY thinks that they have shot a 200 lb. deer. I'm usually 5 lbs or less when estimating the deer my friends and I have shot. If anything, I'm on the conservative side of estimating weight and score. I don't like exaggeration. I found something different doing this. My heaviest wis. deer weighed 190 and 193 lbs. My heaviest Ill. deer was 220 lbs. A good 3 1/2 from Ill avgs 195-205, where as in my wis. spot, one will avg, 175-185 lbs.. The weird part is that these two spots are less than 40 miles apart. The same food, climate habitat etc. Must be the genetics!?