Huge deer from up near Roseau??

[The Yeti]

I heard tonight that there was a deer shot up near Roseau this year that was over 250 field dressed? Anyone else hear about this deer?

[JEV]

I haven't heard of anything, but I don't doubt it. I shot a buck in '02 by archery that went 235 field dressed. 250# is certainly possible in this area.

[freighttrain50]

i also would not be surprised. my girlfriends cousin lives up there and i've been up there a few times to go hunitng and fishing. tons of deer up there and lots of large ones too. her cousin ended up getting 6 deer by himself. 3 does, a 6, an 8, and a 10 pointer. tons of deer, would not be surprised.

Train

[jlm]

Correct me if I am wrong but I believe the two largest deer ever harvested (one was a doe) were taken in N. MN. They were either close to 400 lbs or 500 lbs. I think is was 500 lbs if I remember correct. Anyone have this statistic? Which ever the case....man is that huge. Can you imagine dragging that thing out of the woods?

[Mark Christianson]

Right from the DNR HSOforum:

Adult female white-tailed deer weigh about 145 pounds, males 170. The heaviest whitetail ever recorded in the United States was a 500-pound Minnesota buck.

If this mystery buck was 350 lbs(rather than 250lbs), I would be pretty impressed. There are quite a few that approach that 250 mark each year. (But then again, that is what people "claim" they weigh too)

[bigbucks]

What you say is true, but most people never shoot a 250 lb. buck in their lifetime. My biggest is only 185 or thereabouts. I did shoot one doe about 10 years ago that we never weighed that I would say had to weigh about that (180 I mean) or more, she was huge.

[lawdog]

Are you talking field dressed weight here? Because 250 on the hoof is not that big. 250 field dressed would be enormous. My biggest buck weighed 193 dressed after hanging for a day and half. My brother's biggest weighed 212 Monday morning after being shot Saturday morning...

[FISH AWAY]

6:15AM get to stand with 13 year old son,get settled in. 6:30am look out in field see big deer 300 yrds away watched it for 5 min. then it goes into windrow, told my son to watch for it to come out again. 5 min. latter there it is 250yrds away I told my son watch this did doe bleat followed by buck grunt, deer runs full speed right at us stops 100yrds away looking straight at us, I told my son grab your gun (single shot 30-30 with scope), I grabbed the video cammra, when I looked at it again it was about 6:50am huge buck I told him, get the cross hairs on him when he turns shot him(he was looking striaght forward at us).All at ounce he turns 180 degree and bolts away from us. A guy hunting with us saw the deer and was wondering y we didn't shoot(he saw it go across the road into sombody else property), I told him it was the straight on shot I didn't like so I told my son not to shoot until it turned.Next day hunter on road stops us says you have to come up and see the deer you guys kick out to us yesterday morning about 7:00am. He said they saw it run out from our windrow right to there field.This is were it gets hard, we went and looked at it and I dropped my jaw it was an 18 point with about a 6 inch drop tine weighed in at 270lbs dressed, it was huge.This is onetime I wish he wouldn't have listened to me, and just shot.What a first time deer that would have been.This was in the Bertha area.They have pictures going into the Bertha newspaper.

[jt24]

Is this the buck that had like a 28" inside spread? A buddy of mine has a coworker that hunted up there and has a picture of a huge buck. He said you could see the antlers sticking over the side of a pickup when it was laying in the back.

[Mark Christianson]

Here is what I would call a huge deer.

I am a rack kinda guy anyway...

[Dan Thiem]

HOLY dump !!!!!

Is that thing for real?

[Mark Christianson]

You know, I honestly have no idea. I got an email from a coworker, who got it from a friend that "claims" to know this guy.

Its probably some game farm deer that died of old age on a farm in Kansas.

Impossible to say, but what a pic huh?

PS - notice how far back the guy is sitting. He is on the rear and holding his arm straight out. Same deception as holding a fish out. But dont get me wrong. This thing is huge one way or another.

[Neighbor]

Here is another pig from alberta.

scroll down to the guy with the blue shirt. Reportedly gross score of 220 as a 5x5.

www.bowsite.org/bowsite/tf/bgforums/thread.cfm?threadid=303408&forum=4

[bigbucks]

It's great to be cautious & ethical & I'm not ripping on you for your decision, but I definitely would have done it different. To pass up an open standing shot at 100 yards with a rifle, unless the deer's facing directly aways with it's head down, is something I'd never do unless I didn't want to shoot the deer. I can see waiting if it's in a wide open field & walking closer, where you can still get shooting if it turns around, especially if it you were using a shotgun, but a 100 yard shot with a rifle's a pretty short shot. I wouldn't have passed up that standing shot with my shotgun.

You have to be safe & careful where you shoot, & try to make a good killing shot, but you can't kill a deer if you don't shoot when the shot's presented. A straight on shot with a bow is one thing, but a firearm, especially a rifle's going to go a long ways & do a lot of damage, not to mention the potential for a finishing shot if necessary.

Again, I'm not ripping on the decision, just presenting my way of looking at it.

[FISH AWAY]

jt24 I'm not sure, this buck had about a 6" drop tine on the one side. You say your friend has a pic of the deer is there a way of getting a copy of it, I have not been able to find one.

[lawdog]

WOW BLB! That deer is huge, despite the photo technique of sitting back, that thing is still gigantic...

That one on the Canadian HSOforum? Giant also. Those are some real brutes!!!

[FISH AWAY]

I totaly agree with you bigbucks, I watch way too many hunting shows.I wish we could do it all over again.Still whining.

[Pistolero]

I read on the DuluthSuperior news web page that there was a 271 lbs (field-dressed) buck taken on the Grand Portage Indian Reservation on 11/9/04.

[bigbucks]

I hear you, I watch a lot of them too, I get sick of them being so ultra cautious. I realize they feel like they have to make hunting look like it's always bang & the animal's dead instantly with no blood or anything. In reality it certainly can be that way, but it isn't a lot of times & there's nothing wrong with that. Hopefully you & your son will get another opportunity on a deer like that someday, after mine comes again of course...

[Stratosman]

The reason they do that on television is pretty obvious, as same as they way they prep the deer before hand then stage the part where they walk up to it and act surprised, how many have you seen with blood all over and the tounge hangin out? I can understand that some there has to remain a sense of taste in these programs. Same with the taking the shot deal, I say if you are comfortable with the shot, and you know you can make it, take it, especially with a rifle, if you are unsure, do not. It's easy for us to sit here and tell you what we would of done, but that's irrelevant now. I know that I have taken a few shots that I wish I hadn't myself, and I know I'm not alone. But then there are people on the opposite end of the spectrum as you and will shoot at anything at any range, those are the ones I worry about.

[Blaze]

BLB - where did that picture come from? That guy looks really familiar to me - do you have a name to go with the pic?

[Mark Christianson]

Apparently the last name is Rooney.

Also, its claimed to have been shot in Belgrade.

Who knows, people start a trail of emails, and all of a sudden the story is changed 10 times before you get it.