OK I am bragging.....mount pics posted

Congrats Doug! Don't see too many like that coming out of Ontario!
One for the book perhaps?

Gotta love the poop fairy.....she always seems to hit me twice....:(
 
Once I get the rack back from the taxidermist I will get it scored for sure.

His chest was 82 inches, measured with my fish measuring tape. :cool:

Doug

Measured around the fullest part of the chest, either you goofed, or you shot a water buffalo.
A 47 inch girth would be 310 lbs

Things to remember:
# Measure the animal just behind the front legs (girth)
# Field dressed = body cavity cleaned out (no heart, lungs, ect..)




Girth/Inches Live Weight Field Dressed Edible Meat


24 55 38 28
25 61 43 27
26 66 49 30
27 71 53 31
28 77 59 34
29 82 64 36
30 90 70 39
31 98 74 42
32 102 80 45
33 110 87 50
34 118 91 54
35 126 99 57
36 135 104 61
37 146 115 66
38 157 126 71
39 169 135 74
40 182 144 80
41 195 156 88
42 210 170 94
43 228 182 103
44 244 198 110
45 267 214 120
46 290 233 130
47 310 251 139
48 340 272 153
 
I shot one with a 45 inch girth a few years back.
You need to really see a deer like that in person to appreciate it's size. There are some really big animals out there.

You need a new measuring tape. This one I have from Nose Stretcher Enterprises is the perfect thing for both fish and game, and comes with a fish scale and check weights. The one pound weight registers two pounds, the two pound weight registers five pounds, and so on. No angler or hunter should be without the set!!! :p Unfortunately it tops out at a hundred pounds so is only designed for fresh-water fish, and not for use on deer. :D

Doug
 
My wife whom you have met, stands 5'6" tall. Here she is beside that buck.
As I said, the big ones are truly impressive when you get to be there.
You are mounting yours?
I didn't, something I regret, but I still have the skull, and may still work up something.
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Back to JYC.............you hang them upside down, AND you pull the antlers off before you hang them????? :confused:

:p

Yes indeed the big guy went to a taxidermist to be preserved, I HOPE, for posterity!

Doug
 
So what did that beast score??? You should contact Big Buck Mag, we need a CGN'er in its pages :D

Good morning Scott!

As I have remarked, I really have no idea how these things are scored, nor any idea of what this rack would score. Somebody has said that the Pope and Young records start at 125 (maybe higher for crossbow?), and I am pretty much certain he would beat 125. But until I get the mount back from the taxidermist I guess we won't know. Anyways, he is in "MY" record book, even if he doesn't make any others! :D

Doug
 
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