Heaviest whitetail deer you've shot and weighed?

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It's been a banner year for bucks in my area, a buddy shot a 150" 10pt that I saw weighed at 260lbs gutted, and 190lbs head, hide guts and legs off at the butcher. 2 other local deer were 185 at the same butcher. There is a calculation I have found online, field dressed x 1.26 for live weight, would put the largest one just under 330lbs.

What are some of the largest body deer you've experienced?
 
Two years in a row, a while back...188 and 193 hanging on the scale at the butchers. Everything off, head, hide, legs ,etc. Old and tough, learned my lesson, nice fat 3 or 4 pt. from now on.
 
Never shot a Whitetail that weighed more than 175 lbs, hanging at butcher.
But....I shot a muley that weighed 276 hanging [no head, hide or lower legs]
He was a hog. Dave.
 
The second largest deer I ever shot ( and the only one that was ever weighed - after hanging for 5 days at the camp ) weighed 167 lbs,and it was a doe.It was weighed at the Lanark big deer contest as we were coming home at the end of the season.I shot a big bodied 9 pointer that was probably over 200 but the doe was the most impressive.It was still 5 pounds behind the heaviest doe that was weighed in that year.
 
305 pounds gutted, small rack for the weight.
Shot it with my uncle 250-3000 Savage model 99.

Great souvenir.
 
My biggest whitetail weighed 191 pounds at the butcher; hide, legs head and rut swollen neck removed. I don’t think Ive got close to that since, but we seldom take anything to a butcher anymore anyway.
 
catnip said:
Two years in a row, a while back...188 and 193 hanging on the scale at the butchers. Everything off, head, hide, legs ,etc. Old and tough, learned my lesson, nice fat 3 or 4 pt. from now on.
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Last year one of our party got a real beast at 275 gutted. He was all shoulders and neck but we mixed his tenderloins and back-straps up with the other meat. BBQ night was great except for the odd piece of meat that was like trying to eat a leather belt. Now big bucks go straight into the trim piles for pepperettes and summer sausage.
 
My heaviest Whitetail buck was 176lbs with guts,hide, head and legs removed. My father killed one that weighed 200lbs , and the record at the local butcher shop , where our deer were also weighed, was 206lbs.
 
280 gutted, skinned, head and legs chopped in the butcher's shop. An eight point whitetail. Long story, alone, with a jury rigged atv, ropes, winches and deep in the bush.
Last deer I took to the butcher if I recollect correctly, I've done all my own since.
 
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305 pounds gutted, small rack for the weight.
Shot it with my uncle 250-3000 Savage model 99.

Great souvenir.
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I did not see that deer but one of my closest friend saw the weight on the scale of a deer weighing 350 pounds gutted.

Some of the biggest WT in the world were kill in Ripon, la montagne noire in Québec. I killed my 305 pounders in Rawdon.
 
I’ve actually never weighed my deer, aside from how much ground I get from the trim and rib meat etc. I do all my own butchering and don’t have a scale to weigh them while I have them hanging.
 
My personal best was 165 lb 6 point buck, gutted, and skinned, weighed by the butcher just before he cut and wrapped it for me.
 
I believe the 11-pt I shot 2 years ago weighed in the low 170s at the butcher, with no head, lower legs, hide or guts. But I might be mis-remembering it as high.

The 8-pt I shot this year weighed 112 with no head, lower legs, hide or guts or tenderloin. That's the second-largest deer I've shot.

Several friends around here have shot deer over 200, field-dressed, but they live in big buck country, and they've been hunting longer than I have. Some of them hunted in the 80s when you could shoot two deer in NB.

I have definitely seen deer that would be over 300 pounds around here in the Saint John area. For at least four years, myself and two brother-in-laws chased a massive 10-point (he was an 8 some years) that lived in the city. One brother-in-law missed him by a couple minutes at last light. I missed him through plain bad luck, hunted the wrong stand one day. And I saw him under a street lamp another year, after I'd tagged out. He was feeling really randy that year, and the guy whose property I hunted actually ran into him in the woods, in daylight hours, and another guy offered to show me exactly where he was bedded that year--he'd found it while he was dirt biking, and it was all stunk up with that rut smell.

Well, I'd already shot that 11-point, and couldn't do anything about it. The last time I saw him was under that street light and he looked like a steer. I would imagine he's either dead by now, or well on the decline. Maybe I should run a few cameras out there in the off-season to see if he's still around.
 
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My oldest daughter shot our biggest/heaviest in our 30 yr camp history from a pink lawn chair at 15 yds about 1 p.m. on a sunny oak ridge. We tried the chest measurement live weight estimation method but out tape was too short..sewers tape. gutted it was 241 lbs.
 
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