Heaviest Deer You've Shot?

[littlebuf]

That big blackie I shot this year was 180 at the butcher.



                                     
                                         Mike

thats huge! good job.

[BULLBLASTER]

dont know what he weighed but this is my biggest deer. he was a 140" mulie. taxi said he was 5-6 years old.
he is in the back of a ford ranger pick up.

[huntergreg]

this deer I got over in the swakane unit last year and he was 173lbs of meat and bones

[BLR 243]

206 hanging in the pic 155 carcuss wt.

[Kowsrule30]

212 lb Mulie... No hide, legs, or head...

[Hillbilly270]

212 lb Mulie... No hide, legs, or head...

holy crap.....so just the neck, ribs, and backstrap weighed 212lbs.....i dont believe it.

[littlebuf]

they are all heavy by the time I get to the truck..

the one i shot this year i drug 150 yards threw a nasty clear cut by myself and i didnt gut him till i was at the truck. he was at least 700 or 800 pounds im sure.

[6x6in6]

1979 in the Manson unit, 221# 4x5 Muley without head and hide on the butcher's scale.
1984 in the 49DN, 194# 5x5 'tail without head and hide and on the butcher's scale.

No muley since has come close. 
I poked another 5x5 'tail in Montana a couple years ago that might have been close to the other one.  But I butch my own now and don't bother with the scale weight.

[NWBREW]

The biggest buck I killed was a whitetail and it went 163 meat and bone only, so I believe the live wieght would be around 225-230....at least that was what Some of the long time members thought. To me it was huge.

[actionshooter]

I killed a muley this year that weighed right about 110# completely boned out, not counting the blood shot, wasted meat. You guys tell me what the live weight was.

[Kowsrule30]

212 lb Mulie... No hide, legs, or head...

holy crap.....so just the neck, ribs, and backstrap weighed 212lbs.....i dont believe it.

I think you misunderstood... Whole deer... Minus head, hide, legs (where you cut them off before the meat), and guts.... Biggest buck I've ever killed... And no I don't have pics of it... Only a mount.... The ex took the rest...     Take it or leave it....

[Joe_Hunter]

188 Lbs mule deer three years ago

[Axle]

I killed a muley this year that weighed right about 110# completely boned out, not counting the blood shot, wasted meat. You guys tell me what the live weight was.

I have processed a lot of deer and elk and beef and goats and sheep and....etc over the years.
What I have noticed is - the younger smaller ones will give out about 1/3 live weight in meat. The bigger older ones will be about 40 percent meat if you were to weigh them live weight.

Certain zones give out bigger or smaller deer. This depends on so many things like feed, water, winter food, winter severity, drought, genetics, rain, lack of rain, the list goes on and on.

We had a BT buck in the neighborhood in the mid '90s that was a freak of a huge buck. He was a jaw dropping buck and I think he died of old age. There was one a few year back that was a road kill and me and a friend tried to lift it into the back of my truck. I weigh 185 lbs and I'm very strong. My buddy is 195 lbs and quite strong. The two of us couldn't lift that buck into my truck. We couldn't get it off the ground. We tried several times but couldn't budge it. That is rare for a BT to get that big but they do. Somebody that has never seen one of these would be hard pressed to believe it.

When I lived in southwest Oregon, there wasn't a deer that I couldn't easily throw over my shoulder after it was field dressed. Here where I live now, I wouldn't even consider trying that on a deer that is two years old or older. Zones and feed make a huge difference when it comes to an animal like this.

[Hillbilly270]

212 lb Mulie... No hide, legs, or head...

holy crap.....so just the neck, ribs, and backstrap weighed 212lbs.....i dont believe it.

I think you misunderstood... Whole deer... Minus head, hide, legs (where you cut them off before the meat), and guts.... Biggest buck I've ever killed... And no I don't have pics of it... Only a mount.... The ex took the rest...     Take it or leave it....

got ya.