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I wonder if that doe was even attractive to the bucks being so big and fat? Kinda puts it into perspective, eh?


Well we all know society as a whole is getting fatter. I wonder if it's spilled into the deer population. In all seriousness, that's a one huge doe!

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Could you imagine dragging a 200+ lb deer 300yard+ all by yourself out of some thick woods? Last year I dragged a 8 pointer out of the woods, with my wife that far without gutting. Thought I was in shape until I did that. The thing weighed 140 dressed. Then this year shot a doe, gutted it then dragged it that far by myself. I thought she weighed 140 lbs. No she only weighed 80 lbs. WOW talk about deceiving. crazy.gif

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About 30 years ago I was hunting with my brother in ND. A giant doe came out of a shelter belt and he had a doe tag so he shot it. We were thinking godzilla doe. Well we got to it and it had nuts and both antlers were broke off at the base from fighting I suppose. That one was bigger than all the other bucks our party got that year. I was at Ripley in the mid 90's and watched them wiegh a 258 pound 10 pointer. Sheesh what a beast!

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HUGE doe. I think she'd SCARE some poor little bucks away.

I've had to drag a 200 lb deer by myself and I'm about 185. If the deer is that large I'm too pumped up and don't really notice how hard it is too drag.

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WOW what a doe. She's enornmous.

Biggest buck I've seen was a not very big racked 10 pointer my brother shot, nice buck, but not a giant rack. The body on this deer though was amazing. He shot it right away Saturday morning and we gutted it and hung it and then took it in Monday morning after haning for two days and it still weighed 212. I can't imagine a 250 pounder, glad we could drive the truck right up to this one, I didn't want to drag that hog anywhere! I shot a 170" brute in Wisc and he only weighed 193 lbs. 200 lber's are RARE!

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In the mid 90s, we had 3 or 4 go over 200 and a couple by a long ways. The thing I remember most vividly is how long they were.


I agree with the length. The deer I shot 2 years ago had a decent rack, but I was most impressed with how long he was. I am 6'1" 185 lbs. and I could barely get him off the ground even with a pully. Once he was up, he was way taller than me even with rigor mortis keeping his hind legs bent. Even as big as he looks, he was only 210 lbs. field dressed. I can't imagine a 300 lber.

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I shot one in Wisc approx 7 years ago that scaled at 302. I shot another one in North Dakota a few years back that had to have went 300+

harvey - Lets see some pics! Good lord

Thumbing through old threads and came across this gem...

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My last three MN bucks were 235, 225, and 240. The 240 was this year and I could not gut at the kill site because of the landowners request. I'm still sore from putting that hog in the truck. It is kinda funny when guys haven't seen a mature buck up close and how big they really have to be to weigh more than 200 dressed. If someone can post a pic for me that would be cool.

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The biggest deer that I have ever shot was this year. I would guess that the doe was about 150 pounds dressed. I had to work for this deer a lot more that the last one that I shot. My dad and I tracked my doe about 4 to 5 miles. 1/2 a mile of that was in a waist deep swamp.

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That is a nice buck! Looking at how big that buck is, I can't even imagine how big the world record 500 lb+ buck looked like.

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Camdu

Is that this years deer????????? Geezus! What are you feeding them things? smile

I thought you buck last year was nice. Wow.

PS - I love the pic! No long arming and sitting 3 feet behind the deer to make it look bigger. VERY VERY good pic! I say CONGRATS for the deer and the pic!

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wow camdu, do you shoot bigs bucks every year, or has it just been a trend the last couple years????... I dont know if you remember or even look at the posts, but we met up in sandstone 2 yrs ago, I was doin deer check stations and recognized your pic you showed off when you where regestering deer, it acctually may have been last year.. but wow congrats, you must really you be practicing QDM on your property.. great work

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hey Im not seein the pics of these big does, can someone help me out, I am interested, thanks Joe N

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I've seen one in the past that was 285 lbs. field dressed with a 36.5 inch neck (not mine). That thing was a beast and if that had a live weight of around 350 I truly couldn't imagine 500 lbs!!!

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Thanks BLB, My buddy is a good camera guy.

I shot this guy on a different piece of property than the one two years ago. But the habitat management and passing on small bucks is working great on my piece of property.

jnorm, I do remember meeting you at Sandstone. How is the wildlife biologist thing going?

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Incredible animal camdu. 240lbs is a lot of whitetail. I see you're from Duluth - was he taken within city limits?

Where are these 300lb'ers? I know if I killed one that big, I'd have a picture or two laying around...

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Great buck camdu7! That would be awesome to see a deer like that walking throw the woods. After seeing that i'd love to see what a 300lb looks like i cant even imagine! I want to see some pics harvey lee that would be sweet.

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Any deer dressed over 200 is a pig and definately uncommon, Those approaching 250 are just amazing.

It appears there are some genes for heavy deer where I'm hunting in recent trends. Three years ago I took one that was 204. Last year I was unable to recover what would have been my biggest ever, I did get to see the rack after the neighbor found it, and he stated it was the biggest boddied deer he's seen. Then i passed up a questionable shot at an 8 ptr my dad later shot with a gun that went 214. This year my buck was 223, and the 25 yrs of hunting this area before this has produced only 2 bucks over 200 lbs.

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In all my years deer hunting I have only seen 2 honest to goodnest 200+ lb deer.

I am blown away by all the 200 lb'ers out there.

My buck this year was a very stout deer with a Hugh neck and body and I would say he went 160.

Congrats to everyone on there 200 lb'ers.

Mark

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