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Quote from: hunterednate on October 26, 2020, 11:59:34 AM400 lbs?? Let's see it!This isn't my thread, I may start one later about this. There are people who seen this deer, some are on here, he was a big ole boy to say the least. To the OP, good luck, I will be in touch.
400 lbs?? Let's see it!
Quote from: bigmacc on October 26, 2020, 12:40:02 PMQuote from: hunterednate on October 26, 2020, 11:59:34 AM400 lbs?? Let's see it!This isn't my thread, I may start one later about this. There are people who seen this deer, some are on here, he was a big ole boy to say the least. To the OP, good luck, I will be in touch.Big old mules are cool. But what you killed must be some moose deer hybrid. Anything 0ver 100# would be incredible. 250? Call the papers!
Quote from: dilleytech on October 26, 2020, 01:49:46 PMQuote from: bigmacc on October 26, 2020, 12:40:02 PMQuote from: hunterednate on October 26, 2020, 11:59:34 AM400 lbs?? Let's see it!This isn't my thread, I may start one later about this. There are people who seen this deer, some are on here, he was a big ole boy to say the least. To the OP, good luck, I will be in touch.Big old mules are cool. But what you killed must be some moose deer hybrid. Anything 0ver 100# would be incredible. 250? Call the papers! Mule deer can and do weigh 400 lbs. That is freakishly huge compared to what we normally shoot but its not unheard of. I believe Big mac but we do need some pictures! just because I love looking at huge mule deer
Quote from: dilleytech on October 26, 2020, 01:49:46 PMQuote from: bigmacc on October 26, 2020, 12:40:02 PMQuote from: hunterednate on October 26, 2020, 11:59:34 AM400 lbs?? Let's see it!This isn't my thread, I may start one later about this. There are people who seen this deer, some are on here, he was a big ole boy to say the least. To the OP, good luck, I will be in touch.Big old mules are cool. But what you killed must be some moose deer hybrid. Anything 0ver 100# would be incredible. 250? Call the papers! , Its just a big ole buck, not an alien deer, or a laboratory experiment, just a big deer, we've probably killed around 10 or so that Ive personally seen over my 55years plus of hunting that are in the 400-450lbs range on the hoof, the area we have hunted for the last 100 years is an area known for big body genetics. As for 250lbs of meat? We butcher our own and try not to waste for respect to the animal, we got 21 one gallon freezer bags of cubed meat out of this guy, all bags weighed at about 10-12lbs each, we get the rib meat, neck meat and everything else we can for summer sausage and pepperoni, the rest for burger and breakfast sausage, the only things that didn't get cubed was the loins and the backstraps. As for dragging 5 miles, yep kinda, 4 of us for about 2 miles all down hill on snow(from the previous storm about a week earlier) then a horse the rest of the way.....Now let this fella have his thread back, if I feel like it I may post a couple pictures on my own thread ...Sorry OP, good luck and Pm sent.
I had spent some time in the unit back in 2014.. I seen a few great bucks and connected with one that scored in the 180s but not the amount of deer I had heard of people seeing.. fast forward to 2018 I spent a little time in the unit and only seen a handful of deer.. few smaller bucks. It really seemed like it was on the decline then. Going into it with no expectations and see what we can turn up.
I had a big bodied 2x3 knees knocked, no head, gutted and skinned was 189 at the butchers. I got back 138 pounds of meat.The butcher said it was the biggest body he had seen that year.If you figure "real world" close to 2/3rds of a deer is not meat. To get 200 lbs of meat, my guess that deer would have to weight well over 500 on the hoof.I would find that a hard one to believe without seeing the pictures.
Quote from: Alchase on October 26, 2020, 03:18:56 PMI had a big bodied 2x3 knees knocked, no head, gutted and skinned was 189 at the butchers. I got back 138 pounds of meat.The butcher said it was the biggest body he had seen that year.If you figure "real world" close to 2/3rds of a deer is not meat. To get 200 lbs of meat, my guess that deer would have to weight well over 500 on the hoof.I would find that a hard one to believe without seeing the pictures.So if 2/3rds of a deer is not meat, wouldn't a deer have to weigh around 750 lbs. to get 250 lbs of meat ?Asking for a friend.