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
) 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
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