Daryl,

I spent six deer seasons working in a friend's father's butcher shop. You'd be amazed at the number of 300lb whitetails (according to the guys who came in to the shop:fg:) there are running around south-central PA.

Out of the 3500+ PA deer that came through the shop while I was there, the heaviest one I ever weighed was 174lb field dressed. We had bigger ones but they came from Iowa and Illinois.

Marcus

heaviest deer ive ever heard of was 245 lbs in my parts..bigest one on our old cotton scales has been 212 lbs... bill i dont know what lies ahead for the old 8 ga but it could be a five point the old gun gets five points equal 4 legs and a tail equal 5 points...eastern or wesrtern count.. charlie

The largest "verified" field dressed whitetail I ever heard of was a 355 pound war horse killed by a guy named Horace Hnikley in Maine back in 1955.

http://www.sportingjournal.com/main9.shtml

Largest field dressed whitetail I ever saw weighed in Maine was about 225 . The largest I ever saw actually weighed in Maryland was also over 200 . The largest I've personally seen weighed in Virginia was 185 dressed . Now in PA , VA and MD of all the bucks I've seen or killed etc were more in the 125-140 field dressed class .

I wish I could have weighed this Eastern Massachusetts deer from Nov. 2003.

Taxidermy courtesy of PGCA Member Scott Kittredge.



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That thing would have beat the socks off my two best bucks combined :whistle:

Are you sure that is not an immature moose? Wow!

I can't take credit for this one.

A friend who is a railroad engineer called me one night at 9:15 and said he had hit a deer with the train engine.
I said, "Big deal, you hit deer all the time."
He says, "Yeah, but this is the first one I ever felt!" "Please take care of him for me - he's still alive."
I asked when he hit the buck and he said "on the same run 24 hours earlier but I thought he was dead. When I took the train by tonight I saw that he was still standing."
Well, I hiked in with my bow to where he told me the deer was and I found him still up on his forelegs full of fight and rage. I delivered a quick arrow through his heart. Man!... he one big deer! Antlers scored 186 3/8 B&C points.

He is big enough to be a mule deer. Nice whitetail.

theres a whittail on record that came out of canada that weighed in excess of 600 lbs and had a spread of thirty inches... some people gona laugh on this one but its so fellows....charlie

.................:shock: