Weigh These Deer

[Boar]

Just take length X Girth X height an divide by 2.5 an round to the nearest pound.

[shortfatguy]

The buck I shot this year weighed 227 with the back feet still on the floor of my garage with 9 foot ceilings. I shot two bigger in my life. One was 236 the other was 239. Both of those hung overnight before weighing. And I didnt win the big buck by weight contest with either one!

[Notime]

Dad got a little guy like number 2 and it weighed 128lbs. I shot a 252 dressed 2 years ago and it was a tank, he still weighed 210 caped. We weighed it at my taxidermist. When I got home I had to cut his back legs off to hang him in the garage. Several years ago my dad registered a doe that went 178 in Long prairie. There are some big animals out there and with all the food plots I think it wont be long and we'll start seeing 300 pounders!

[Laska]

oooo 300 pounders..... Awesome! I got one over 200lbs and was 4.5yo 22" neck to cool it down we stuck 2 30lb ice bags inside it end to end... SE MN and a belly full of corn. Just a beast, I laugh up @ the farm when guys say "seen the 200 lber yet?" I say no- go look and its a nice buck in the 170's... Ive seen big and most arent as big as they seem. BUT dragging a 150lb buck uphill makes it seem like a BOONER!

[surewood]

Based on the Ripley scale (guide) I'm guessing the deer in northern MN are bigger or I'm bad at judging a bucks age. Some years back I shot a 2.5 year old 7 that was 146, 2.5 8 that was 154. My deer last year was 219lbs. No clue of it's age. Taxidermist just said it was old. This year I figured my deer was 3.5 years and it weighed 190lbs. My 2010 buck I didn't weigh as it was in the 60's that day so we cut it up asap, but based on my other deer it had to be pushing 200lbs. It's my avatar pic. We hang off our scale to check accuracy and it's right on. Maybe I have poor judgment of age.

[Wanderer]

The buck I shot this year weighed 227 with the back feet still on the floor of my garage with 9 foot ceilings. I shot two bigger in my life. One was 236 the other was 239. Both of those hung overnight before weighing. And I didnt win the big buck by weight contest with either one!

If you're shooting mature bucks around Buhl, I can believe it.

We have a place in Ely and see alot of deer on the road going into and out of our place. I'm always impressed by the size of these deer. Big fawns and big does that I wouldn't be suprized to see dress out in the 140-150 range.

I agree on the comment about a true 200 lb deer too. Once you see a true one, you'll rarely call another a 200 lber.

I bought a scale and started checking weights at a few deer camps I would hunt in around the state. The most average weight of a typical 8 point 2 1/2 year old buck with a 13-14 inch spread has been 130 - 140 lbs. My personal largest bodied deer was 135" 9 pointer that went 173.

My eyes were openend when I had two deer weighed for a big deer contest; a 10 point that went 141 and a "gigantic" doe that went 140. For the doe I won second place, for the buck I got "Nice deer, thanks for playing"

The two deer in the pics? Personally I would guess 150 and 135 max.

BTW, I've been asked to not bring the scale around any more.

[Notime]

Ok, so this morning I shot a really nice doe, looks huge! She weighed 130 without her tail! Upon skinning she has a solid 1 inch plus of fat on her, and we all know fat weighs less than muscle! I think she'd have went 133 with her tail though!

[spivak]

I think it's built in to the human condition. Inches, pounds, and points; no matter what the scale we try to qualify our experience by quantifying it.

[CANOPY SAM]

3 lb tail? I don't know.....????

What happened to her tail?

[shortfatguy]

3 lb tail? I don't know.....????

What happened to her tail?

I was wondering the same thing

[Notime]

I cut it off when I cleaned her. Spose I got you guys all excited!

[harvey lee]

1-165

2-120 thats dressed for each.

As with fish, it is very hard to guess the size from a photo.

I shot a 10pt buck in ND 5-7 years back and one guy could not drag it on the alfalfa field. It took 2 guys to move it. I can drag a 150# deer no problem at all. Not going to say the weight as this would then turn into a it does not weigh that much.

[mabr]

Having spent a great deal of my hunting carear down south I used to be one of those that thought alot of the deer I had seen had to be close to 200lbs. That was Until I finally got my hands what I thought was one. I took a Nice 9 about 8 years ago that I thought for sure had to go over that mark the body was huge IMO it took 2 to load it in the back of my truck. This deer made a 1.5 YO one of the guys that hunts with us took look like a fawn. He actually questioned if his had CWD it looked so small compared to the one I took. Alot of the locals who seen it said it had been a while sense they had seen one that big so in my mind it had to be over 200.

Then 2 years ago I truly found out what a big body was. I took an eleven point that year that blew me away. Like Harvey said, grab the horns of a 150 and haul it out. Huffing and puffing but you can do it and did with the 8 I got this year. This deer I couldn't hardly budge. Im serious It wouldn't move, I know im not the stud i used to be but still it was more than I could handle. I ruined my brother in laws hunt and had him bring the wheeler over to get it to the truck just to load it. Then it took 3 grown men to get in in. His neck measured 26 inches behind the ears. I regret not weighing him but Im sure some remember the warm opening weekend we had that year and getting him cooled was more important than weighing.

A story I really never understood until i experienced it on the deer above. Hearing it I would shake my head in agreement like i knew what he was talking about, A uncle of mine would always say, "You know its a big deer when you cant reach up in the chest cavity and cut the wind pipe without spreading the rib cage wide open and almost climbing inside it to do it". Like alot of others I thought for sure I had killed some pretty good heavy deer over the years Until I actually had.

[Archerysniper]

You know they are big when after the shot you look at it and go Wow what did I get us into,because you know your going to need at least 2 more people to get it out. I have 4 that have dressed over 200# the biggest was 260#. The best was 2 guy's on each antler and one trying to pull a leg saying wow the whole time.

[96trigger]

My brother's 225 pond deer was so noticeably bigger we had to weigh it. Normally we throw deer on the gambrels and just yank them up, it took two of us to lift and one to pull for us to get it hung. I know what you are saying about getting one that is actually over 200 lbs.

Its the one in the back, made the other two look very small.

[DonBo]

In over 30 years of hunting, our camp weighed just about every deer that came in. Guessing consevatively 200 deer on a good scale. I'm here to tell ya neither one of those deer is 150 lbs. 135 tops, most likely in the 125-130 lb range. Most people have no clue of real life weights of deer.

Even some of the responses on this thread "170-180", well if you weighed it, what did it weigh? I shot one big one here in the metro area that weighed 200 even, and like stated above you have no chance at dragging a deer like that with even two guys. The next two biggest I've taken were right at 165 and 170, and those were big deer.

Look again at the results from Ripley. THOSE I believe.

[96trigger]

It took three of us to lift the 225 pound buck in the back of the truck, and we still struggled, we are not small guys either.

[pooly_31]

Streiff's Sporting goods has a 150 lb doe registered in their big buck contest in the Warroad area this year. Next biggest is 137.

[TruthWalleyes]

It took three of us to lift the 225 pound buck in the back of the truck, and we still struggled, we are not small guys either.

now i know to call someone else if i fall down and can't get up

[#fishhunt#]

Scale on my christmas list this year!

[96trigger]

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now i know to call someone else if i fall down and can't get up

You can call us, we can throw you in the back of the truck, shouldn't be a problem. That deer was really long, so we had to almost lift the legs above our heads to get it in the back of a 3/4 ton ford, because he wasn't stiff yet. When we got him in the back, hes nose was hitting the front of the bed and we couldn't close the tailgate because his feet stuck out to far.

[Musky Buck]

They just all feel like 200 pounders depending on how far and tough the drag is. I lost a few days off my life dragging that 180 out on my own, had to quit and finish the next day, 1/4 mile of rhymes with yell. Break that down 440 yards man it felt like forever.

[HooknHorns]

Alot of the wight depends on the time of season the buck is taken. They loose alot of weight chasing does and not eating as much. I taken 4 over 200 and 2 that were shy by few pounds. All but one were taken before November and that was a gun kill.

The heaviest doe that ive taken and weighed 145 fd and that seemed like a cow. Wish I would have weighed the muzzy doe i took cause she was huge. Being near sub zero temps i was too cold to think about it.

I believe its harder to get a 150lb fd doe than a 150 inch buck.

[mntatonka]

I'd say 172 & 142. The second one's definitely a yearling. I think the first one must be a two year-old.

I'd be more inclined to believe the first one has his first rack (1 1/2 year old). Especially if it's a farmland deer. I also wouldn't be surprised if the deer weighed 180. With such a mild winter last year, and an abundance of food, the deer have been generally larger in the farmland areas.

[tlbigstump]

We weigh every one of our deer also. All the yearling bucks always weigh 115lb on the nose, and we've weighed alot of them over the years. Does are 100 to 120 on average and I shot a big ol alligator face with the muzzy a few years back that went 135 and she had enough fat on her to keep the birds happy all winter. 2.5yr old bucks here go 140 to 155 and 3.5s 160 to 185lbs and so far haven't got any bigger and older than that to sample. You always hear of the bucks people shoot and say not much of a rack but big body and when I see them they are almost always yearling bucks, and the owners never believe it. This is area 240 241 border along hwy 10 so half swampy half farmland.