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[Marc Retallack]

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

[charlie cleveland]

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

[6pt-Sika]

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 .

[Dean Romig]

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

Taxidermy courtesy of PGCA Member Scott Kittredge.



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[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

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

[Mills]

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

[Dean Romig]

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.

[wayne goerres]

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

[charlie cleveland]

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

[Dean Romig]

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