Heaviest Deer You've Shot?

[remington300mag]

Through the years I have seen hundreds of bucks hanging in the same cooler that I hang mine in....i would even be willing to say closer to 3,000 bucks.....late season bucks, early season bucks, mid season bucks, high mountain deer, city deer, white tail, black tail, and mules! When reading this thread I called the guy that runs the cooler and is the butcher....I also called two other butchers that take care deer...... And what I can gather from my own experience is that a lot of you are either very bad at guessing weights on a hanging animal....OR your butchers scale doesn't work.....I have killed 18 bucks in this state...not one of which was over 200 pounds hanging....closest i ever got was a late buck when I was a kid at 192 pounds.....my dad who has been hunting this state since 1964 just got his first buck this year that went over 200 pounds hanging....that's about 1 out of 40 ...and it only was 212 pounds.....The butchers I have talked to have only seen a very small handful of deer in this state go 200 pounds....actually 5 bucks to be exact! So, I would love to see one of these bucks that weighed in at 275 pounds of hanging meat!!! Also would love to see some of these 250 black tails!
And before you all get up in arms....I will post a pic of my dad with his buck from this year....my dad is 6'2 to 6'3....and weighs about 310 pounds.....look at the size of the buck compared to him...and this buck only went 212!

[LongTatLaw]

Well...

Id say your numbers seem low to me rem300   

I killed a not extremely impressive 4x4 mule deer this year in Central OR...  it weighed 217 (as alive) on a cabelas spring scale that was dead on my weight.

Ive killed 2 WT's in central Mississippi that weighed over 200 (201 & 205)

Ive personally seen WT's from Nebraska and Canada over 325 (live weight)

[jeffrey vegas]

head off, skined, legs cut at joints, ne wash. whitetail  187lbs.

[remington300mag]

LongTat,

So your saying that the buck weighed 217 live weight??? That is a good size deer but what they were talking about was "hanging meat".....so that 217 buck of yours alive...would lose gut weight,blood weight,cape weight....so what about 130 hanging meat. Right?
I know there are a lot of bucks that go over 200 live weight....but a hanging buck with nothing but bones and meat that goes over 200 pounds is absolutely HUGE!!

Oh, and ya I have seen some of those HUGE Canada Whities!!! I would lvoe to put the hurtin' on one of those beasts!

[mossback91]

never weighed one, but largest was a big bodied mountain muley buck I shot......... id guess he was close to 200 hanging........I'll have to dig up some pics

[Axle]

a lot of you are either very bad at guessing weights on a hanging animal....OR your butchers scale doesn't work

I have worked in a slaughter house and I always thought the scales were way off.

I almost always weigh the meat with an accurate hand held scale after it is all cut up. Then I can guess the live weight fairly close.

I've cut up a lot of BT suburb bucks for friends and family here where I live. The bigger ones give 75 to 85 lbs of meat. There are some that we have seen that are much bigger. These BT deer are also much bigger than the ones I hunted in SW Oregon years ago. A buck down there was bragging rights if it was 110 lbs field dressed. Those BT deer will cross breed with the little Colombia whitetail deer that were introduced near Roseburg and the result is still a very small deer. One friend of mine got a two point and got only 12 lbs of meat off of it. That's a record too I would think.

[twisp_river_slayer]

we checked in a deer this year that went 230 hanging with no head, hide, feet and guts. Largest deer i have ever seen! He was a 29 inch 3 point which was determined by a biologist to be between 8 and 10 years old.

[BLUEBULLS]

my deer from this year was 215lbs hanging and the guy who owns the cooler and scale i used killed a whitetail this year that was 260lbs hanging, Absolutely huge!!!

THere must be a rack that that fat whitey had to hold up..right?  Any pics?  Big fatty..

the whitey was a 7x9, 22" wide with bases around 9". the H1's will be about 7 and 7-1/2"

I scored him at about 174". real old buck, looked like a spike bull carcass.

[WAPITIHUNTER]

If you post a weight please be kind enough to indicate if it was butcher weight, nothing but meat and bones hanging, or field dressed, gutted with hide and head attached.

Makes a huge difference in weight.

[whitey]

Skyvalhunter
What that Hog hang at that You Guys got this Year?It was a real nice deer.

[PA BEN]

I shot a whitetail buck when I was 14 that field dressed at 200 lbs. Shot a whitetail doe once that I got 80 lbs of boned out meat from.

Ok, for some reason one guy wants to question the wt.s we are posting. My 200 lb fielded dressed buck was weighed on my Grandpa's beef scales. My 80 lbs of meat off of my big doe was weighed at the butcher.
BTW, the buck was shot 36 years ago. Heres the horns off of him.

[yelp]

my deer from this year was 215lbs hanging and the guy who owns the cooler and scale i used killed a whitetail this year that was 260lbs hanging, Absolutely huge!!!

THere must be a rack that that fat whitey had to hold up..right?  Any pics?  Big fatty..

the whitey was a 7x9, 22" wide with bases around 9". the H1's will be about 7 and 7-1/2"

I scored him at about 174". real old buck, looked like a spike bull carcass.

From this year? Nice mass..Pics?

[spikehunter]

183# Grain fed muley. same tear got a spike bull 283# hangin'

[Dipsnort]

The buck in my avatar is by far the biggest-bodied deer I have shot.  I have no idea what it weighed but here's a picture of him next to a yearling buck that might give a little appreciation for his size.  He was very old and the meat tasted awful!

[billythekidrock]

The heaviest for me have been a few blacktails just over 200lbs gutted/hide on.