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Re: Heaviest buck harvested?

Unread postby Jeff G » Sat Dec 16, 2017 5:01 am

215lb buck field dressed

190lb doe not field dressed


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Unread postby Chuck B » Sat Dec 16, 2017 5:02 am

205 dressed is my biggest so far.
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Re: Heaviest buck harvested?

Unread postby Stanley » Sat Dec 16, 2017 5:32 am

Edcyclopedia wrote:FYI - I harvest crops and KILL Bucks ;)

My avatar = #149, shortest buck I ever saw...

I've shot, killed, arrowed, taken, dumped, dropped, downed, popped, harvested and many other descriptive words. Tomato & Tamato are just plain old love apples. :D
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Re: Heaviest buck harvested?

Unread postby Dewey » Sat Dec 16, 2017 5:34 am

Stanley wrote:267, 245, 240, 235, 233, 225, 221, 215, 212, 210, 205 are a few I can remember off the top of my head. All weighed (dressed) not guessed. Killed quite a few in the 175-200 range. The last buck I killed that weighed under 150 dressed was 1979. I won a big buck contest with that buck. The buck I killed this year was over 200 easily, but I didn't weigh him the land owners tractor wouldn't start to lift him. So I couldn't count him.

Those are some true Iowa corn fed beasts there Stanley. 8-)
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Re: Heaviest buck harvested?

Unread postby mnswamphunter » Sat Dec 16, 2017 9:12 am

Jeff G wrote:215lb buck field dressed

190lb doe not field dressed

Nice. That's a big doe.
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Re: Heaviest buck harvested?

Unread postby tim » Sat Dec 16, 2017 6:36 pm

I’ve shot some big bodied deer but one I got on cam this year is the biggest body Deer I’ve ever seen in my life. His rack doesn’t match the body as he appears to be in decline . Had video in summer and couldn’t believe it . Then video in fall was more ridiculous. If I kill him he will be weighed.
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Re: Heaviest buck harvested?

Unread postby JAK » Sun Dec 17, 2017 1:49 am

Never weighed one but they feel about 300 by the time I reach the truck :lol:
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Re: Heaviest buck harvested?

Unread postby Bigburner » Sun Dec 17, 2017 7:11 am

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Re: Heaviest buck harvested?

Unread postby Clink » Mon Dec 18, 2017 12:41 pm

Its funny, some guys say they've never weighed their deer but you head up to Maine and they would look at you funny for it. Believe it or not, I've often heard "What'd he weigh?" before "How big was the rack?". They like their big bodied bucks. Probabaly tradition.
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Unread postby Rutnstrut » Mon Dec 18, 2017 1:33 pm

I never use to weigh any of my deer. But at the urging of my uncle I started to weigh some of the bigger ones starting about 15 years ago. 233, 211, 196, and 193 are the biggest. The 233lb deer was the highest scoring of them. But the 193 was the longest body and oldest of them.
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Re: Heaviest buck harvested?

Unread postby Dewey » Mon Dec 18, 2017 3:54 pm

Clink wrote:Its funny, some guys say they've never weighed their deer but you head up to Maine and they would look at you funny for it. Believe it or not, I've often heard "What'd he weigh?" before "How big was the rack?". They like their big bodied bucks. Probabaly tradition.

Same thing up in Canada. The average body size of the older bucks up in Ontario is amazing. Unlike anything I have ever seen here in the states.
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Unread postby Doublejake » Thu Dec 13, 2018 1:35 pm

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Re: Heaviest buck harvested?

Unread postby Hawthorne » Thu Dec 13, 2018 2:31 pm

I shot a buck oct5 this year that dressed 210lbs. He was thick all over his body. Rack was ok, grosss scores 107. Not bad for public in Michigan. He was my heaviest buck off public land. My second heaviest overall.
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Re: Heaviest buck harvested?

Unread postby stratocasterNJ » Thu Dec 13, 2018 5:57 pm

matt1336 wrote:I kill deer I don’t harvest them- but to each his own. I’ve cracked the 200# threshold a few times. Northern WI produces some big deer with small racks. I’ve shot a couple like that too.

Is that a recent turn of events or has that been the case for a while? If I remember, the Jordan buck was killed in or near Danbury which is northern WI, a long time ago but weighed 300 lbs + dressed out but there was no confirmation of that. I would assume that particular bucks genetics are still in the herd up there, but I may be way off base never having hunted anywhere in WI. The biggest I have taken is 160 lbs and any buck that dresses 200lbs in NJ gets you an award because it just doesn't happen every year.
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Re: Heaviest buck harvested?

Unread postby BigBrutus11 » Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:12 pm

Biggest is a 201#, 5.5 year old ( pictured in my avatar) shot in 2006 and a 199# 7.5 year
old bigwoods buck shot in 2008


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