How do you weigh your Deer? I mean....
08-23-2004, 08:31 AM
#21
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Maine
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RE: How do you weigh your Deer? I mean....
In my neck of the woods deer are measured in dressed weight. (Maine & New Hampshire)
It would either take an extremely confident hunter to bring a scale to the woods or a foolish hunter to drag it out whole to get a live weight.
It would either take an extremely confident hunter to bring a scale to the woods or a foolish hunter to drag it out whole to get a live weight.
09-17-2004, 07:14 AM
#23
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: USA
Posts: 63
RE: How do you weigh your Deer? I mean....
Adam the way to do it is to weight it dressed out. and if you want to guess the live weight there is somthing online that tells you what it would be live. its around 40lbs for a deer i think.
09-17-2004, 07:55 AM
#27
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2004
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RE: How do you weigh your Deer? I mean....
I come from the northeast, and deer are weighed after field dressing. I'm in IN now, and it seems most people I have talked to field dress deer here too. BUT I have seen plenty of TV shows and have heard of people taking their deer out of the woods before dressing. It seems to be the way they do it, especially as you go further south. That really surprises me, since spoilage occurs faster as temperature increases. Fastor in a poor hit, and man, I can see why some people think venison is gamey. They probably have only eaten deer that were not dressed for quite a while after they were shot. I think it has to do with the fact that these folks can often drive right to the deer and throw it in a truck. They don't have to drag much, and therefore don't need the benefit of reducing the weight.
I don't bother weighing any deer unless it is obviously over 150. Back in NH, we would all guess weights before putting them on the scale. After a while, you get pretty good at it, and most guesses are within 5 pounds under or over.
I don't bother weighing any deer unless it is obviously over 150. Back in NH, we would all guess weights before putting them on the scale. After a while, you get pretty good at it, and most guesses are within 5 pounds under or over.
09-17-2004, 08:01 AM
#28
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: I was born in a tree...
Posts: 446
RE: How do you weigh your Deer? I mean....
i always say dressed weight....
its like the whole horse power debate, is the hp at the wheels or at the crank? you never see people talking baout hp at the crank anymore but then you get those punks that think they know everything and start talking about hp at the wheels when its really at teh crank!
its like the whole horse power debate, is the hp at the wheels or at the crank? you never see people talking baout hp at the crank anymore but then you get those punks that think they know everything and start talking about hp at the wheels when its really at teh crank!
09-17-2004, 08:50 AM
#30
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 7,208
RE: How do you weigh your Deer? I mean....
Dressed weight is what I use. People are funny to watch when you bring a deer in and they think it weighs so much. I am pretty good at guessing doe weights in that 90-110 range.