Author Topic: BIG does (Read 716 times)

armycar01 · « **on:** November 26, 2005, 10:20:58 AM »

What is the biggest doe any of you have killed?

Thebear_78 · « **Reply #1 on:** November 26, 2005, 10:32:56 AM »

I shot a bid northern michigan doe one time that dressed out at 173 lbs. It was a huge doe. Heaviest buck I have ever shot dressed out at 205 lbs. All measured on a hog scale. THe average whitetail up here runs around 130 lbs dressed for bucks, and 95-120 lbs dressed for does.

BKS · « **Reply #2 on:** November 26, 2005, 01:58:05 PM »

Killed one this AM what weighed 105, other club member killed one that weighed 120 lbs. These are south Arkansas deer

longwinters · « **Reply #3 on:** November 26, 2005, 03:01:29 PM »

Got one several years ago that dressed out weighed(on a scale) 150lbs. Generally does up here are under 125 lbs. It generally is not a thrill for me to take a doe, but we enjoy the meat and I enjoy hunting so if the time is right and a doe(without fawns) comes by, she is going in the freezer.

Long

swiftman · « **Reply #4 on:** November 26, 2005, 03:24:41 PM »

A neighbor that farms next to one of the parks that no longer alows deer hunting on it wants some of the does killed off because they are destroying their crops but he says no one wants to shoot the does they all want to shoot bucks . I am going to go there this week and try to get a doe or two with my bow. He wanted my to keep killing them till I get the ones I want to keep, but I don't play by those rules. Do it right or not at all.

cattleskinner · « **Reply #5 on:** November 26, 2005, 06:04:15 PM »

Most mature does (1.5 years+) around here go right around 120lb hanging weight (no hide, guts, head, or feet)...That would put them right around 180-200lb. live weight.

~~~Amos

New Hampshire · « **Reply #6 on:** November 27, 2005, 01:38:41 AM »

I didnt kill it, but someone here in New Hampshire killed a 196 lb, antlered doe. It was just 4 lbs short of being legal to enter in the trophy deer program. This is an oddity though. Most does up here will not get much larger than 150 lbs, and even THAT is big.
Brian

Redhawk1 · « **Reply #7 on:** November 27, 2005, 02:39:55 AM »

My biggest was last year, a 135 pound doe. I had it mounted and it looks great with all my bucks.

DirtyHarry · « **Reply #8 on:** November 28, 2005, 02:48:47 PM »

My biggest doe field dressed at 187Lbs. I have taken quite a few that dressed out in the 160's-170's.

JPSaxMan · « **Reply #9 on:** November 29, 2005, 03:52:00 AM »

I've heard does going in excess of 200 lbs...not on a regular basis, but a few that have been shot that were gettin' old I guess :-D

longwalker · « **Reply #10 on:** November 29, 2005, 10:49:52 AM »

Mine was about 135 pound field dressed. Nice deer lots of fat and fed us very well. If more huntes brought Does home for the family to eat there would be more familys that like deer.

longwalker

RicMic · « **Reply #11 on:** November 29, 2005, 05:49:40 PM »

A few years ago I got one that weighed 116lbs, most bigger ones go 105 to 120 around here. I know a woman thet shot one that went about 190 up in the U.P. Took her and her daughter half the day to drag it out!

DirtyHarry · « **Reply #12 on:** November 29, 2005, 07:58:23 PM »

Quote from: DirtyHarry

My biggest doe field dressed at 187Lbs. I have taken quite a few that dressed out in the 160's-170's.

Quote from: JPSaxMan

I've heard does going in excess of 200 lbs...not on a regular basis, but a few that have been shot that were gettin' old I guess :-D

The deer here in Ohio are no joke, in fact I was just reading in a hunting rag I get that during the 2004-2005 deer hunting season alone in Ohio there were 11 bucks taken that scored 200 or better Boone and Crockett points, in comparison in Pennsylvania there were 5 taken...since 1950...