Post by: Swiftkid on November 12, 2009, 06:26:39 AM
Post by: lewy on November 12, 2009, 06:29:19 AM
Post by: GrainfedMuley on November 12, 2009, 06:30:35 AM
Post by: Skyvalhunter on November 12, 2009, 06:32:15 AM
Post by: PA BEN on November 12, 2009, 06:36:55 AM
Post by: Gutpile on November 12, 2009, 06:37:50 AM
Post by: GoldTip on November 12, 2009, 06:44:15 AM
Heaviest deer i've shot (hanging weight) 140 lbs. My dad had a 190lb buck back in 89'. I've heard of some freakishly large bucks like 240, to 275lbs of meat.
I'm assuming when your talking 240-275lbs of meat, your actually meaning the deers dressed bone in hanging weight. Correct?
Post by: Swiftkid on November 12, 2009, 06:54:10 AM
Post by: BLUEBULLS on November 12, 2009, 07:08:38 AM
Post by: yelp on November 12, 2009, 07:19:11 AM
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..
Post by: 44 Flattop on November 12, 2009, 07:28:21 AM
244lb Blacktail.
44
Post by: burrheadcountry on November 12, 2009, 07:29:00 AM
I edited out the blood and guts. :puke:
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Post by: spur_ride on November 12, 2009, 07:43:21 AM
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Post by: Axle on November 12, 2009, 07:52:01 AM
About the same year a friend shot one near Cle Elum. Same thing, we ate some in camp, cut it all up while we were there and came back with 98 lbs of cut up meat.
In '05, my son got a white tail and we got right at 100 lbs of meat. His BT this year gave us about 85 lbs of meat. I didn't weight it on that one but I'm fairly good at guessing it.
Post by: remington300mag on November 12, 2009, 08:32:36 AM
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!
Post by: LongTatLaw on November 12, 2009, 08:41:04 AM
Id say your numbers seem low to me rem300 ;) :P
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)
Post by: jeffrey vegas on November 12, 2009, 08:51:11 AM
Post by: remington300mag on November 12, 2009, 08:52:54 AM
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!
Post by: mossback91 on November 12, 2009, 08:53:55 AM
Post by: Axle on November 12, 2009, 10:07:11 AM
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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.
Post by: twisp_river_slayer on November 12, 2009, 10:15:00 AM
Post by: BLUEBULLS on November 12, 2009, 10:45:35 AM
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.
Post by: WAPITIHUNTER on November 12, 2009, 11:03:45 AM
Makes a huge difference in weight.
Post by: whitey on November 12, 2009, 11:10:47 AM
What that Hog hang at that You Guys got this Year?It was a real nice deer.
Post by: PA BEN on November 12, 2009, 04:00:29 PM
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. :bash: 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.
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Post by: yelp on November 12, 2009, 05:10:50 PM
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?
Post by: spikehunter on November 12, 2009, 05:15:14 PM
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Post by: billythekidrock on November 12, 2009, 06:18:10 PM
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Post by: georgia redneck on November 12, 2009, 07:26:06 PM
Post by: georgia redneck on November 12, 2009, 07:37:38 PM
Heaviest blacktail is the one in my picture did not weigh him but I shot numerous white tail growing up in Ga that pushed 220 230 and that thing sure seemed at least that. I will try and post a bigger picture
Post by: becker on November 12, 2009, 08:05:28 PM
skipped school
in mt near 49 degrees north.
huge snow storm
3 days till the end of the late season, when you could still shoot mule deer.
Clipped it as it disappeared into the snow storm.
Tracked blood for 4 hours.
Got my kill shot right at the end of light.
Huge heavy deep forked 4x4.
Nearly did not fit in the back of my 90 4runner.
back home, hanging in the garage 8 foot ceiling head off, neck still touching the ground.
I'll try to scan a pic.
Post by: Hunting Cowboy on November 12, 2009, 08:13:09 PM
Post by: elkaholic123 on November 12, 2009, 09:07:10 PM
Post by: huntnphool on November 12, 2009, 09:22:34 PM
Post by: Track-er on November 15, 2009, 11:16:29 AM
Post by: jeffro on November 15, 2009, 11:47:07 AM
Post by: remington300mag on November 15, 2009, 04:11:22 PM
The heaviest deer I ever shot was a regressing blacktail,up by stevens pass. Boned out, cut and wrapped, I had 180# of meat.:bs:
Post by: Axle on November 15, 2009, 06:38:58 PM
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Post by: Bigshooter on November 16, 2009, 05:32:20 AM
232lb Mule deer.
244lb Blacktail.
44
I saw both of these bucks on several different scales. The blacktail was a big high country blacktail, that was covered with fat. By far the fattiest buck I have ever seen.
The mule deer was killed near salmon Idaho. Was the biggest bodied deer I had ever seen until he killed the formentioned blacktail. Both were big 4x4's.
And I know of a few more big bucks flattop has killed that were over 200lbs. He killed another mule deer in Idaho that was 220lbs. It is a big 7x9. I can think of two more blacktails that he killed that were 201lbs and 202lbs.
And just because you, or butcher haven't seen or killed one that weighed over 200lbs, doesn't mean they don't exist. :hello:
Also the biggest buck I have ever shot was 170lbs. The same year a buddy killed one that was 195lbs. Both blacktails.
These weights are all head and hide off.
Post by: remington300mag on November 16, 2009, 07:33:23 AM
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!!! :sas:
Post by: bowman on November 16, 2009, 10:00:15 AM
Post by: croix on November 16, 2009, 12:30:49 PM
Post by: mikelonsford on November 16, 2009, 01:10:06 PM
Post by: Axle on November 16, 2009, 02:59:21 PM
Bowhuntin posted this link in a thread I started under the elk section. It is a similar thread to this one. The article is a good read and tells you how much you can expect from an animal but the study was done on elk. I have found that deer are very much similar in what you will get.
That being said - if someone says they got 'x' number of lbs of meat, then you can triple that number and it is close to live weight.
180 lbs of meat from a BT? That would equal 360 lbs field dressed and over 500 lbs live weight.
World record! Call Guinness.
Post by: Houndhunter on November 16, 2009, 04:17:14 PM
Post by: carpsniperg2 on November 16, 2009, 04:22:04 PM
Post by: jjhunter on November 16, 2009, 04:22:20 PM
Post by: Buckmark on November 16, 2009, 04:25:11 PM
I think some of you guys have confused this thread with the heaviest gal you've ever closed out.......... :chuckle::yike:
Post by: Track-er on November 16, 2009, 04:39:03 PM
I think some of you guys have confused this thread with the heaviest gal you've ever closed out.......... :chuckle::yike:
I resemble that remark
Mike
Post by: 270Shooter on November 16, 2009, 04:40:31 PM
Post by: Track-er on November 16, 2009, 04:56:57 PM
My montana muley from this year wieghed 116 at the butcher. That was with no head, hide, or legs. I don't know how much the one i killed in 07 wieghed, but I am having a hard time believing some these wieghts.
Look at mine compared to the Honda 90. Was doing wheelies dragging it down the road. That was one big deer with no exaggeration on the weight.
Post by: luvtohnt on November 16, 2009, 05:14:21 PM
Brandon
Post by: LRshooter on November 16, 2009, 06:08:45 PM
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Post by: BRUSS on November 16, 2009, 07:58:07 PM
Post by: Track-er on November 16, 2009, 08:04:19 PM
Trac ker that thing is a pig
Again I owe it all to Skyvalhunter,He was with me on this hunt in 2004 and helped me out. It looked like a mulie on steroids.The hoofs were about 2 times the size of a regular deer. I wish I would have saved one for a show and tell.
Mike
Post by: 7mmfan on November 16, 2009, 10:15:12 PM
Post by: remington300mag on November 16, 2009, 11:20:25 PM
My muley this year dressed at 210lbs and my dads was 240lbs.:bs:
Post by: Axle on November 17, 2009, 09:00:59 AM
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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).
Post by: Buckmark on November 17, 2009, 09:35:42 AM
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..
Post by: Bigshooter on November 18, 2009, 12:35:07 PM
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!!! :sas:
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.
Post by: twisp_river_slayer on November 18, 2009, 12:38:17 PM
My muley this year dressed at 210lbs and my dads was 240lbs.
Whats your definition of dressed?
Post by: Buckmark on November 18, 2009, 12:47:09 PM
Yeah, Formal, Casual or Business attire??? :chuckle:My muley this year dressed at 210lbs and my dads was 240lbs.
Whats your definition of dressed?
Post by: Broken Arrow on November 18, 2009, 12:48:52 PM
Post by: Broken Arrow on November 18, 2009, 12:56:51 PM
Post by: Buckmark on November 18, 2009, 01:01:57 PM
I guess with most of you not using scales, or used to weighing your deer, some weights would be hard to believe.This is gonna open up a whole nother can of worms.
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.
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.
Post by: Broken Arrow on November 18, 2009, 01:04:34 PM
Post by: flyguide on November 18, 2009, 02:29:22 PM
Post by: Houndhunter on November 18, 2009, 06:09:03 PM
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. :P 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 :chuckle:
Post by: Buckmark on November 19, 2009, 11:13:24 AM
Oh yeah, i forget to add breathing the same air.. :chuckle: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.
Post by: CChunt on November 19, 2009, 11:30:37 AM
http://www.lewis.army.mil/yakima/sites/mwr/img%20mwr/DeerData.pdf
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Post by: remington300mag on November 19, 2009, 01:34:55 PM
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!!! :sas:
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.
How exactly do you get a deer on a bathroom scale?!?! Now, if you tell me you were holding a 200 pound deer in your arms standing on the bathroom scale, I call major :bs: And if you try and tell me you just layed the deer on it.....again :bs: Did you go to 2 different houses to get 2 different bathroom scales?!?! That makes no sense at all!! So I call, :bs:
SO, now is as good as time as any to just admit the error in your ways!!!
Oh, and seeing 20 or more 200 pound bucks in this state with your own eyes.... all I can say to that is your :liar:
Post by: Gutpile on November 19, 2009, 04:29:38 PM
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!!! :sas:
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.
How exactly do you get a deer on a bathroom scale?!?! Now, if you tell me you were holding a 200 pound deer in your arms standing on the bathroom scale, I call major :bs: And if you try and tell me you just layed the deer on it.....again :bs: Did you go to 2 different houses to get 2 different bathroom scales?!?! That makes no sense at all!! So I call, :bs:
SO, now is as good as time as any to just admit the error in your ways!!!
Oh, and seeing 20 or more 200 pound bucks in this state with your own eyes.... all I can say to that is your :liar:
I am really beginning to love this thread. :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Post by: remington300mag on November 19, 2009, 06:17:12 PM
Either way....a 200 pound deer is damn hard to come by....yet it seems that some people are convinced they are getting them every year....... :bs: :mor:
Still wondering what guy gets his deer...takes it home...walks it in the house....and gets his bathroom scale out and weighs it?!?! Hmmmmm Need to see a pic of it! :lol4:
Post by: mossback91 on November 19, 2009, 06:38:03 PM
Still wondering what guy gets his deer...takes it home...walks it in the house....and gets his bathroom scale out and weighs it?!?! Hmmmmm Need to see a pic of it! :lol4:
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Well I know you are not as strong as am and you are uncapable of this, but believe me its possible!!
Post by: Track-er on November 19, 2009, 06:38:14 PM
Me too!! LOL You know, I still think some people are talking about two different things here....I think some are saying 200 pound deer with only the guts out or even the guts in....Me, I am talking about 200 pounds of hanging deer...NO Hide, No guts, No head....just hanging meat and bones!
Either way....a 200 pound deer is damn hard to come by....yet it seems that some people are convinced they are getting them every year....... :bs: :mor:
Still wondering what guy gets his deer...takes it home...walks it in the house....and gets his bathroom scale out and weighs it?!?! Hmmmmm Need to see a pic of it! :lol4:
Scouts honor, my Mulie was as big as I said. Just look at him compared to the Honda 90.
Mike
Post by: coachcw on November 19, 2009, 08:11:26 PM
Post by: hogsniper on November 19, 2009, 08:30:59 PM
Post by: Warrior1 on November 19, 2009, 08:44:24 PM
I have a few Hogzillas packing some racks and meat???? ;) :IBCOOL:
Post by: remington300mag on November 19, 2009, 09:05:46 PM
Moss, For some reason I can see you standing in your bathroom....with a skinned out buck, bear hugging it while standing on the scale!! Oh, and you stronger than me...maybe your breath! LOL
Oh and I believe I have heard of these 275 pound mulies from this state....would have to see it to believe it....I think those guys are shooting elk!! LOL
Post by: littlebuf on November 19, 2009, 09:37:02 PM
Post by: WAcoueshunter on November 19, 2009, 10:47:57 PM
Also, the really big bucks I've seen are all mountain mulies. I've seen big racks from the sage and wheat, but the body sizes are much smaller than the mature mountain bucks. I've spent a good amount of time chasing both, and the mature mountain bucks are WAY bigger. It wouldn't surprise me that the YTC bucks have smaller bodies than their cousins from across the valley. Less snow, hotter summer, makes for smaller bodies.
Post by: Track-er on November 20, 2009, 03:16:26 AM
Mike
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Post by: remington300mag on November 20, 2009, 08:58:54 AM
Swift Kid, if you want to see a 200+ pound buck...check the pic I posted....that one was 212 on the hook!
Post by: littlebuf on November 20, 2009, 09:34:37 AM
That big blackie I shot this year was 180 at the butcher.
Mike
thats huge! good job.
Post by: BULLBLASTER on November 20, 2009, 01:55:47 PM
he is in the back of a ford ranger pick up.
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Post by: Hillbilly270 on December 01, 2009, 02:25:07 PM
212 lb Mulie... No hide, legs, or head...
holy crap.....so just the neck, ribs, and backstrap weighed 212lbs.....i dont believe it.
Post by: littlebuf on December 01, 2009, 02:40:51 PM
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.
Post by: 6x6in6 on December 01, 2009, 02:45:38 PM
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.
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Post by: actionshooter on December 01, 2009, 03:07:12 PM
Post by: Kowsrule30 on December 01, 2009, 07:31:28 PM
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....
Post by: Joe_Hunter on December 02, 2009, 08:34:38 PM
Post by: Axle on December 02, 2009, 10:08:19 PM
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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.
Post by: Hillbilly270 on December 03, 2009, 07:53:04 AM
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.