ImBillT
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Of all the bucks I’ve weighed meat from I’ve had two under 100lbs, and two over 107lbs. Those were the 129lbs and 137lbs. Multiple states, but all in the plains with access to agriculture. None had particularly large racks.
The 129lb grossed 156” green, and the 137lb grossed 172” green. The biggest buck I’ve killed grossed 159”, and I’ve only got three over 150”. I have a stock of 135” bucks. Those whose meat I weighed were all very close to 100lbs. Mid 90’s to 107. Again, all plains deer with access to agriculture, even though there were not all in the same location.
Those numbers are not packaged meat. I weigh all my quarters, backstraps, tenderloins, neck and trim, then weigh the bones after I’m done butchering. The packaged meat would be a little lower.
I got 264lbs from a small 6pt bull, and a little over 180lbs each from two different cows. Shot a whitetail doe this year. Field dressed her, stuffed the whole thing in my pack and packed out. Field dressed, but otherwise intact she weighed 64lbs. Didn’t weigh the meat. I’d guess around 30lbs.
Below is my brothers buck. When I walked up to it I felt like I could have ridden it. I actually didn’t go after it even though I’d seen it in the same place twice, because I thought it was narrow and about 145”. It actually had a 22.5” inside spread(green). The fact that its ears were 25” tip to tip threw me way off. I thought it was 19” inside when I had looked at it through binos and a rifle scope. The taxi made it look bigger.
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