Heaviest Deer You've Shot?

[7mmfan]

I wish dad had had a camera way back when. It was the first deer that I remember dad bringing home. It was a late buck Blacktail from up above Darrington. a 5x2, really cool buck with tons of character. He drove an old Chevy LUV and the deer FILLED the bed. When he went to hang it, i distinctly remember him hanging on the rope through the pulley and only getting the deer off the ground to just up from its hind quarters. Dad weighed about 175 pounds then, he weighs a little more now A big deers hind quarters have to weigh, what, 50# or more so that deer hanging weighed well over 200#.

[remington300mag]

My muley this year dressed at 210lbs and my dads was 240lbs.

[Axle]

A big deers hind quarters have to weigh, what, 50# or more

Interestingly, I weighed one of the quarters from my son's big BT buck this year. After cutting it off and with the whole leg bone on but no hide, it weighed 24.5 lbs. Then out of curiosity I weighed one from my neighbor's buck which was almost the same size of deer and it weighed 23 lbs (same way - whole leg bone - no hide above knee).

[Buckmark]

After reading this whole post i am convinced of substance abuse and use in deer herds, I demand a full investigation into this matter and if needed an investigation by congress and an outside source.
I shot a deer a few years ago that had a tattoo/stamp on it that said BALCO, i wasn't sure what that meant at the time but i am now convinced that it was not just a tarsal gland, but some sort of cream..

[Bigshooter]

Yep, and just the other night I seen some Aliens abduct a Sasquatch!

Just because you haven't seen an Alien or a Sasquatch....doesn't mean they don't exist!!

Tell me, why would you bounce an animal around to "Several Different Scales"?!?!?! How many is several?!?! Did you just drive around town looking for people with scales?!?! This comment makes no sense at all!!!   

Put him on two different bath room scales before he was put on a butchers scale.

Just because you haven't seen many don't mean they don't exist.  I can come up with a list of 20 or more 200+ pound deer.

[twisp_river_slayer]

My muley this year dressed at 210lbs and my dads was 240lbs.

Whats your definition of dressed?

[Buckmark]

My muley this year dressed at 210lbs and my dads was 240lbs.

Whats your definition of dressed?

Yeah, Formal, Casual or Business attire???

[Broken Arrow]

my biggest was in the blues....5x5 dressed out at the butcher at 117 pounds.....hide, guts, legs, head removed

[Broken Arrow]

any facts on WA deer?

[Buckmark]

I guess with most of you not using scales, or used to weighing your deer, some weights would be hard to believe.  

I'll add a little something... Mule deer are generally bigger body size than a whitetail... Correct?

So growing up in NH where you have to check in every deer you shoot at a registering station, which normally had a biologist with a scale at the location, (not a bathroom scale either) I can tell you there are several whitetails shot every year that are over 200 lbs field dressed.  (That's all the insides removed, all the way up to the wind-pipe...NOTHING INSIDE)  They actually have a thing where they will send you a patch when you harvest a deer over 200lbs, Maine does the same.  There is usually one or two a year that tip the scales around 250.  A lot of times where I grew up they use the weight along with the points to describe how big the deer was.

This is gonna open up a whole nother can of worms.
As far as Mule deer and Whitetail deer sizes, Deer from the same area, same age class will be very close to the if not the same size/weight.
Both mule deer and whitetails that i have taken from the same area, heck with in 100 ft of each other have been comparable depending on age (food source was the same), Mule deer tend to look bigger due to the larger ears and possible larger/taller/wider antlers. If you ever get the chance to see alot of deer together on the hoof, bot mulies and whities together you will see what i mean, a comparable age class deer both living in the same canyon eating the same food drinking the same water will be the same size.

[Broken Arrow]

i personally saw a deer shot below the high water mark many years on the hanford reach and I swear it was 275+....looked like a small elk. Although this was also durring the rut....all my deer in archery have pencil necks and either look like or are dinks, regarless of antler size....dont care...still awesome to see these huge bucks you guys are taking....nice work!

[flyguide]

A spike blacktail that I got when I was about 17 years old felt like it weighed at least 300 pounds after I carried it for 2 miles draped over my shoulders.  It seemed to get heavier the closer I got to the truck.    Killed quite a few Muleys since then, since they were big enough NOT to try and carry out whole so none have put me through that kind of torture. 

[Houndhunter]

A spike blacktail that I got when I was about 17 years old felt like it weighed at least 300 pounds after I carried it for 2 miles draped over my shoulders.  It seemed to get heavier the closer I got to the truck.    Killed quite a few Muleys since then, since they were big enough NOT to try and carry out whole so none have put me through that kind of torture. 

my deer tend to wiegh more the farther i pack them out

[Buckmark]

a comparable age class deer both living in the same canyon eating the same food drinking the same water will be the same size.

Yeah I've heard those bucks that drink from the lakes get much bigger than the ones that drink from the creeks.

Oh yeah, i forget to add breathing the same air..

[CChunt]

Here is a link to the YTC deer harvest data for 2007. The biologist would age and weigh every deer shot. A couple bucks listed in the 30" range and none of the animals listed go over 200 pounds.

http://www.lewis.army.mil/yakima/sites/mwr/img%20mwr/DeerData.pdf

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