Deer weight
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Re: Deer weight
My cousin shot a spike that tipped the scale at 200lbs live weight. I would think the deer in your picture Shultz is a 1.5.
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That's a big 10-4 Hodag!Hodag Hunter wrote:Just saying, in our area a lot of guys shoot deer that think they weigh more than what they really do.
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Interesting. Every 1.5 year old buck that's been shot off of this land I hunt on hasn't weighed over 120lbs the last 23 years. I guess 135lbs Isn't out of reach as It's only 15lbs more. What Is selling me on this buck being a 2.5 Is his back hooves. There huge! This deer has also got some length to him too. He's just not a typical 1.5 year old for this area It seems. Not saying he Isn't but he's definitely not the norm If he Is a 1.5.Stanley wrote:I have actually weighed quite a few deer over the years. 135 dressed for 1.5 year old is on the money. I have seen 1.5 year old dress out at 155. A lot also depends on what month the buck was born. He could be 3 months older than some of the other yearling bucks. It also depends on what month the buck is killed. A buck in October is always heavier than the same buck in November. So 105-155 is what I have weighed 1.5s at.
What you say on when a buck Is shot Is so true. Last year I was hunting a 5.5 year old. I've been watching this buck grow up since he was a 2.5 year old so I know his age 100%. I saw him October 28th at 30 yards (to far of a shot). He was all of 220lbs dressed. He got shot around Thanksgiving by a Muzzle Loader hunter on the land next to ours. I heard the shot and later that night heard word of a big 10 shot close to the land I hunt. I went over to his place and sure enough It was the buck I have over 1000 pictures of. I knew this buck very well. He was skin and bones hanging there. He dressed out at 145lbs. The hunter who shot him said he had to be a 3.5 year old. I said nope he's a 5.5 year old and I got the proof. Rut will do that to an aggressive buck. His rack was busted up too. It wasn't busted up November 4th as I had him at 10 yards (too thick to shoot).
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Good point.DEERSLAYER wrote:I have seen quite a few yearlings that have grown unusually big bodies for their age. Sometimes you see yearlings with unusually large antlers because of genetics and I think it's the same with big bodies.
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Have a look at the jaw bone. 1.5yr old's you can tell, much past that it gets into guessing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaVjWsmkRgA
uncle Lou, thats a nice buck and Id be doubtful its a 2.5yr old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaVjWsmkRgA
uncle Lou, thats a nice buck and Id be doubtful its a 2.5yr old.
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Pretty much all of our 1.5's are in the 130-140 range, 2.5 are usally closer to 160 give or take and the 3 years olds seem to dressing out in the 180 range, again give or take a little.
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Schultzy, I now live in the Rogers area and hunt Zimmerman and Kimball areas.
The 3 yearlings I speak of came from around Luxemburg.
A few years ago I helped retrieve a F/A's kill of a buddy and it was what I thought to be 2 yrs old. and would have guessed to weigh under 150. My friend thought it was 170 easy. We weighed it at the reg. station: 145 lbs.
I also helped a different guy weigh an extremely small bodied, 10" wide, 10 point 1 yr old that weighed 105 lbs. Man did that little guy have potential stripped away. Ouch !!
So YES; whenever someone tells me what a deer weighs I ask if it was weighed. If not I take it with a grain of salt.
Head Gear, where in MN do you get such big 1 yr olds. SE ?
The 3 yearlings I speak of came from around Luxemburg.
A few years ago I helped retrieve a F/A's kill of a buddy and it was what I thought to be 2 yrs old. and would have guessed to weigh under 150. My friend thought it was 170 easy. We weighed it at the reg. station: 145 lbs.
I also helped a different guy weigh an extremely small bodied, 10" wide, 10 point 1 yr old that weighed 105 lbs. Man did that little guy have potential stripped away. Ouch !!
So YES; whenever someone tells me what a deer weighs I ask if it was weighed. If not I take it with a grain of salt.
Head Gear, where in MN do you get such big 1 yr olds. SE ?
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I have land near Park Falls and have been impressed w/ the body weight of the deer up there. I shot a 2.5 y/o that dressed at 185. We've also shot some big does...never wieghed them....and saw some huge bucks. My bro shot a 2.5 that dressed around 165 and I've seen some pretty scrawny deer as well-so it does very. Genetics I guess.
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About 6 years ago I shot a 3.5yr old that was pretty big for the area. It dressed out at 175#'s This was in big woods public land in Oneida County. The day after I shot him my buddy shot a 10pt. It and another buck were fighting and chasing a doe all over the swamp until it passed by his stand to give him a shot. The buck was very skinny. It seemed to be the dominant buck of the area by all the scares and puncture wounds around his neck from fighting off the other bucks. This buck dressed out at 125# and was aged at 5.5 yrs old. I think the rigors of the rut had taken it's toll on the weight of this buck.
The buck I shot and the one he shot were only 300 yards apart. So same area,same food, etc...
The buck I shot and the one he shot were only 300 yards apart. So same area,same food, etc...
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Arrowbender wrote:Head Gear, where in MN do you get such big 1 yr olds. SE ?
Arrow we hunt in the far north, maybe 40-50 miles from Canada. I think a lot of it has to do with the size of the fawns going into their first winter, if they don't reach a certain size they don't make it. These deer don't have much for racks as 1.5's - spikes, forks, or tiny 6 pointers are very common. Not sure I have ever seen an 8 point 1.5 year old up north, they put everything they have into their bodies. We have shot a few yearling bucks that didn't weigh as much but I wouldn't call it the norm, may have been during a mild winter when we had decent deer numbers.
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Body weight is similar to antler growth through my experiences. Read on...
Depends who his parents were (genetics) and when they were born (May - June - July) at least for the first two years of life, then I think it averages out... Of course diet is also another major factor.
The last decent buck I shot only dressed 142 pounds at the end of November (so he was rutting for a little while), but would doubt that prior to rut he would have been more than 160 pounds. The odd thing about him was he had a massive chest but when I hung him up I noticed he was the shortest looking deer I'd ever seen. If he was longer (to match his chest size) he would have likely been 30 pounds heavier...
My buddy's Dad bagged a 204 pounder 4 pointer in Maine years back and he was 2 1/2 according to the biologists...
Kind of like kids growing up to be teenagers and then to adults - certain percentages are average (say within 10-30%) then their are exceptions to every rule... You can usually pick out the couple small kids and then the couple big kids - the rest are average.
Depends who his parents were (genetics) and when they were born (May - June - July) at least for the first two years of life, then I think it averages out... Of course diet is also another major factor.
The last decent buck I shot only dressed 142 pounds at the end of November (so he was rutting for a little while), but would doubt that prior to rut he would have been more than 160 pounds. The odd thing about him was he had a massive chest but when I hung him up I noticed he was the shortest looking deer I'd ever seen. If he was longer (to match his chest size) he would have likely been 30 pounds heavier...
My buddy's Dad bagged a 204 pounder 4 pointer in Maine years back and he was 2 1/2 according to the biologists...
Kind of like kids growing up to be teenagers and then to adults - certain percentages are average (say within 10-30%) then their are exceptions to every rule... You can usually pick out the couple small kids and then the couple big kids - the rest are average.
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That is a good way to look at it Ed, I know my kids are midgets compared to the average kids their age. The wife and I aren't small so I know they will hit their stride eventually and catch up. My nefew is huge for his age but both parents are small. I can see deer being the same way, they all have their own DNA and grow when they are ready.
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