Giant Mississippi Buck
Contributors to this thread:Whitetail Deer
From: DL
29-Nov-18
Wonder what he shot it with?
From: Buffalo1
29-Nov-18
Buffalo1's Link
Here is the link to the story. Kind of interesting
From: Brian M.
29-Nov-18
Fawn with antlers?
From: Zbone
29-Nov-18
Yeah Brian, we have doe fawns around here right now that big...8^) Look at it this way, easy drag with those antlers, gives ya something to grab...8^)
From: Joey Ward
29-Nov-18
Those key deer are migrating further north every year.
Probably because of the hurricanes and pythons.
From: DL
29-Nov-18
Be interesting what it’s DNA would reveal.
From: Genesis
29-Nov-18
Behold..... Odocoileus magnolianus couesi
From: Brotsky
29-Nov-18
Very interesting story! I've certainly never heard of anything like that.
From: greg simon
29-Nov-18
I killed a 143" 8 point that weighed 139 pounds. He was mature and I was guessing him at 160" when I shot him. This was in Arkansas.
From: Franklin
29-Nov-18
Greg.....he must of looked like a world record....lol. A 160" rack on a 140 lb deer....that`s too cool.
From: Shiras42
29-Nov-18
I am really thinking his weights are extremely exaggerated. My friend shot a huge, fat Nebraska doe last night that was 135lbs and he is saying that is average in MS? I ain't buying it.
From: jrstegner
29-Nov-18
I killed a 6x6 buck that grossed 166" plus had 5" of nontypical points. The distance from his nose to his eye was only 6.5" I didn't weigh him but I guessed him at about 120 dressed. I know I have killed bigger does. I thought he was pushing 190" when I saw him on the hoof.
From: Inshart
29-Nov-18
Shiras - I totally agree, the weights he's talking about would be for northern MN deer .. no way Mississippi.
From: Zbone
29-Nov-18
jrstegner - What state? That's crazy...
From: PushCoArcher
29-Nov-18
In my area SE Oklahoma the deer definitely have a smaller body size when compared to the rest of the state. If I had to guess I'd say does would average 80lb bucks 150lb (That's field dressed). Definitely a interesting deer his numbers for average weight do sound high for Mississippi as a whole but he said that was the average for their property maybe they just have a well managed property.
From: shiloh
29-Nov-18
Some properties in MS would surprise you with teh size deer that are harvested. I have a buddy who had a place in teh south delta and their avg mature buck weights were 275#.
From: JLeMieux
29-Nov-18
Shiras/Inshart, it's customary in the south to use live weight when referring to a deer's weight. We don't usually field dress so deer usually make it to the skinning rack/scale whole. I assume you are talking about dressed weights on those midwest deer.
From: jrstegner
29-Nov-18
Zbone, SE Indiana
From: Buffalo1
29-Nov-18
In Mississippi, the section of the state is a major governing factor of deer body and rack size. It is based on soil content. Any county along the MS River and the Big Black River has great potential of large bodied deer and probably big racked bucks.
Western Hinds County is on the banks of the Big Black River.
Hunting properties in these areas are private and extremely costly to own or lease.
From: Franklin
29-Nov-18
Eye to nose measurement of 6.5" is really small. I seen some of those horsefaced Iowa deer get close to 9"....with the average about 8".
From: shiloh
30-Nov-18
Exactly what Buffalo said.
From: LINK
30-Nov-18
Nebraska and Minnesota does weighing 135 on the hoof??? Maybe a doe fawn. 7 month old doe fawns in Oklahoma will dress at 80-100+. That would put them at a live weight of 105 -135 as fawns. The average dressed weight of a mature doe in NW Oklahoma is probably around 130. If you add 30-40 pounds for the “guts” that’s an average liveweight of 160-170. I don’t doubt a mature doe in Mississippi weighs 130-135 on the hoof. My brother once killed a doe that dressed 155.
From: Inshart
30-Nov-18
Yes, I was talking "dressed weight".
From: Zbone
30-Nov-18
Seen a couple of field dressed mature does around here on scales and both were in the 125-135 pound range...
Seeing photos of these unique miniature antlered bucks is crazy...
From: EJG
30-Nov-18
KC - that is crazy!
From: LINK
30-Nov-18
Insahart and shira if you are both talking field dressed weights you are comparing an apple to an apple slice. I believe his weights are live/ on the hoof weights. At least I didn’t read anything about a field dressed weight. So his average 125# doe weight would be a 90-100 pounds field dressed.
From: shiloh
30-Nov-18
Everything in the south is on the hoof. We don’t normally dress them and the weigh them.
From: Nimrod90
01-Dec-18
I killed a nice 8 pt in NW Indiana around 2008 that I initially passed 2 times and grunted him back to the tree the 3rd time and shot him. I couldn't make up my mind and had nothing to compare him too but he looked mature. Long story short he scored 124" and field dressed 120 lbs and was a mature buck. Thick rack that looked big compared to his body. He also had tiny hooves. My neighbor was a deer farmer and said just like any species there are deer " midgets" due to genetics and that buck was definitely one of them.
From: Wader
01-Dec-18
I’ve seen one in Midwest Indiana. 3 years ago.
From: wildwilderness
02-Dec-18
Reminds me of Southern VA deer, for the 3 yrs I lived there and looking at all the data the hunt club had the average mature doe “live” weight was 90 lbs and the average buck “live” was 125. There were a couple big bucks pushing 200# . Definitely different genetics in whites across the country
