How many of you weigh your deer?
12-19-2003, 10:52 AM
#21
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Fredericksburg Virginia USA
Posts: 13,672
RE: How many of you weigh your deer?
Well I have had one of mine weighed, my biggest buck, he dressed at 175 pounds, the biggest I have ever seen weighed in Va. dressed at 210, a buck my cousin killed the very next year trying to outdo me! Well the weight bet mine by a mile, but the rack on mine was a lot bigger than his.
12-19-2003, 11:10 AM
#23
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Central Pa.
Posts: 105
We measure the big ones in central Pa because the deer can really vary in size..
I am a hardcore Bowhunter and most of the deer my family takes are weight. This year I passed up alot of does looking for a big buck but the last week of bow season was terrible windy. I had to break out the rifle for the first time in 10years. I however shot the biggest deer in my hunting career(210lbs).
We will weigh every deer from now on.
We will weigh every deer from now on.
12-19-2003, 11:29 AM
#24
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hamilton Square NJ USA
Posts: 557
RE: We measure the big ones in central Pa because the deer can really vary in size..
We weigh all our deer, my club has two electric winches set up outside the shed where we hang them. There's always a bow pool, for bucks and does, and a gun pool for bucks and does, so they all get weighed, even if just for curiosity.
I agree, the folks who don't weight them sure do kill some big ones.
I agree, the folks who don't weight them sure do kill some big ones.
12-19-2003, 02:40 PM
#25
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Maine
Posts: 3,555
RE: We measure the big ones in central Pa because the deer can really vary in size..
I'm also from Maine and I know exactly what you mean. larger antlers only adds to the weight total. What part of the state are you in Split-Hoof?
12-19-2003, 02:53 PM
#26
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Fremont, NE
Posts: 552
RE: We measure the big ones in central Pa because the deer can really vary in size..
Here in Nebraska, we don't have to weigh them, but we sure can on our own or at the processor if we wish to do it that way.
12-19-2003, 06:21 PM
#28
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 358
RE: How many of you weigh your deer?
It seems that the people that talk the most about weights are those that live in areas where antlers are generally much smaller than those where I hunt
gg.
12-19-2003, 07:59 PM
#29
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: fort mcmurray alberta canada
Posts: 5,667
RE: How many of you weigh your deer?
Goodguy-I hunt the farmlands of alberta and saskatchewan.Could you kindly inform me as to where I might find deer that are heavier on average than these locations.I am sure other readers would be interested as well.
12-20-2003, 02:19 PM
#30
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 358
RE: How many of you weigh your deer?
It was a play on words....you know....a joke. Sorry you didn't get it.
But in answer to your question, I hunt the farmlands of Ontario where the winters are less severe and the deer snack on apples, corn, alfalfa, grain and acorns.
Research & Quotes of Blair Dawson (do a Google search)
We don't have Mulies here but when it comes to Whitetails Ontario has some huge deer. Of the 30 subspecies of whitetails in North America, ours is the largest . Odocoileus virginianus, subspecies borealis (of the north), is found from Manitoba east to the Maritimes and in bordering U.S. states.
Body size becomes progressively smaller to the south. Southern-Florida key deer, for instance, are not much bigger than a medium-sized dog. And, even though many Canadian-prairie and Texas deer sport huge antlers, body sizes are comparatively small.
The largest hunter-taken buck we've tracked down, at 288 pounds dressed , and weighed by the MNR, was taken in the late 1950s by an unknown hunter in northwestern Ontario. Second place, at 286 pounds dressed , goes to a deer taken from Hastings County, and weighed in a big-buck contest. The third-largest buck, at 282 pounds dressed, was taken by compound bow on October 28, 1997, near the town of Renfrew in the Ottawa valley. The archer, Mark Melcher of Renfrew, won the local big-buck contest that year.
Hope this helps. gg.
But in answer to your question, I hunt the farmlands of Ontario where the winters are less severe and the deer snack on apples, corn, alfalfa, grain and acorns.Research & Quotes of Blair Dawson (do a Google search)
We don't have Mulies here but when it comes to Whitetails Ontario has some huge deer. Of the 30 subspecies of whitetails in North America, ours is the largest . Odocoileus virginianus, subspecies borealis (of the north), is found from Manitoba east to the Maritimes and in bordering U.S. states.
Body size becomes progressively smaller to the south. Southern-Florida key deer, for instance, are not much bigger than a medium-sized dog. And, even though many Canadian-prairie and Texas deer sport huge antlers, body sizes are comparatively small.
The largest hunter-taken buck we've tracked down, at 288 pounds dressed , and weighed by the MNR, was taken in the late 1950s by an unknown hunter in northwestern Ontario. Second place, at 286 pounds dressed , goes to a deer taken from Hastings County, and weighed in a big-buck contest. The third-largest buck, at 282 pounds dressed, was taken by compound bow on October 28, 1997, near the town of Renfrew in the Ottawa valley. The archer, Mark Melcher of Renfrew, won the local big-buck contest that year.
Hope this helps. gg.