OK I am a little challenged and cannot get pics onto this site as easy as I can on other sites but I want your help. I am looking for true 150+lbs does AFTER field dress. Many claim to shoot 150lbs does but almost no one actually measures them. No certified scale needed as this is just for fun but Please just make sure you scale then and share photos. These can be from this year or past years but lets see, and show some respect, for the BIG girls. It is my oppinion that a true 150er is more rare than a P&Y buck and my "Not so scientific" research has proven this over the years. My best to date is a 147 and over the past 3-5 years I have posed this thread on other sites getting a result of about 1% true 150ers.
If someone can help email me and I will send a pick of one of my best girls for you to post. Lets have some fun and show some DOES!
robert.urban@abnamro.com
Thanks - Bob Urban
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Here's one I got a pic of last year. Never shot her so never weighed her. If she is under 150# dressed then you tell me what you think she would be.
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Didn't put this old doe on the scales, but she was heavy for a doe.
My cousin shot an old doe several years ago that weighed 186# on the butcher's certified scales. My heaviest buck weighed 184# on the same scales and was shot in the same creek bottoms.
Dennis
QuoteOriginally posted by Dsturgisjr:
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Didn't put this old doe on the scales, but she was heavy for a doe.
Thats a Hog of a DOE....almost looks like a kudu..... :biglaugh:
Check out the "Kansas" thread. Curt killed a doe that was terrible big!
Holy Cow, Denny, literally! That is one big Grandma doe...smartest animal in the woods in my opinion.
Awesome Deer Denny - Just Awesome! Was she shot in Michigan? When did you shoot her?
Bill - I love the pics of that doe as well - She looks huge?
Keep em coming Guys.
Bill that doe is not big she just got short legs.Wow Kip
This was one of my bigger does, she was not 150 pounds, but she was 140 dressed. In comparison, I am 6'2" and weigh 230:
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The biggest doe I ever shot was my first, she dressed out at 165(in Vermont they all go on certified scales). Haven't shot a doe over 130 since.
The biggest whitetail of all that I found came out of Minnesota. A hunter there had a 402-pound field dressed whitetail taken in 1926. And, believe it or not, another hunter matched that 402-pounder in 1981. Of course, these were bucks.
The biggest bodied deer Ive ever seen was a doe.I didnt shoot her because I saw her in Moose River Plains in the Adirondacks during gun season but I have to believe she was all of 200.Again, I never scaled her but she was with other mature ladies and they looked like fawns.
Those big doe's are tough as heck to take also. I certainly call the old doe's a trophy.
Those old matriarch does are much more seasoned than the oldest of bucks (no pun intended). There not swayed buy the rut like the boys are.
Here is one that was 140 field dressed.
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Not sure what she weighed, but here's a big one...
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Curt, Miss Kim wants to know if she can have the saddle that came with that critter ;)
Dang if that ain't a freezer filler right there!
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Those are all some PIGS - I love seeing the Big gals. Take a look at PICKINs FDoe to get some perspective on How BIG a 150+ doe has to be. His looks HUGE and it went 140lbs.
Keep em Coming guys and never underestimate the Trophy Value of a P&Y DOE!!
Hey Bobby, shot the old blow doe in MI last week.
Nice does guys!
I shot one last year in the Mississippi delta that was weighed by the local game warden at 185 live weight.
My biggest bodied deer ever was a doe. I hunt a bow only area and hunters can turn in the deers head and have it aged and if ya have the deer with ya weighed The DEC issues you another tag. This is to help manage the herd in the bow only zone. I bought in the whole deer as she was huge, she was aged at 11.5 years old and field dressed at 173#s. I have killed some nice bucks over the years and the biggest that I weighed was 168#s. No pics. , but certified by NYS DEC. The ENCON guy who weighed her said he had weighed thousands of deer and she was the second biggest and the oldest he had ever done. Shawn
Bob you do this every year. Don't you know big does are an "Urban" legend? :p
Thank you, thank you, try the veal and don't forget to tip your waitress. I'll be here all.....aaaacccckkk!
Those photos are awesome. I`ve gotten some big does, but they weren`t as big as those. They look like horse heads on them things, not deer heads.
I like big butts and I cannot lie!
No pics, but I killed a doe that went 164 on the meat processors scale.( dressed]. We grow some biggins here in IL.
Well it seems that there are a few out there even here in Michigan. That is one pig of a deer Denny. But I may have to start an "Urban Legend" contest for the biggest Trad doe next year. Give something cool away and keep it on a Gentlemens rule - weigh it with a scale and be honest type of thing. I like to shoot bucks but I am facinated by the Big Ole Doe!
I wanna see pics of an "ole dry doe". That's what I always hear guys say they shot.
BTW...those are some big ole gals you guys shot there.
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I shot this doe last year and she wasn't small either. I'm sure she blew at me a few times over the years.This hunt is on Fred Eichler's Traditional Harvests V that just was released.
I live in alberta some of our larger does can go to 200lbs before field dressing but most even up here where our deer a a bit larger do not dress out more than 150 lbs
I routinely saw does in the 150# class in Michigan and now here in the Ag fields of Southern Indiana I see them again after having lived and hunted in California where the Coastal blacktail does were 75#. IThe first year I huntied out there I kept thinking it was fawns I was seeing. That was until I saw a fawn. I thought it was some kind of pygmy deer.
The doe that didn't offer me a shot last week was pretty big. I think she would have dressed at least 150.
You hunt the wrong state. You have to go to a corn state with hard winters to find heavy deer.
http://www.ngpc.state.ne.us/wildlife/wtdeer.asp
Yearling bucks average 150 lbs in NE. The 80lbers still have spots. It isn't that hard to happen upon a doe larger than a yearling buck. When I was a kid I shot a doe with much larger hams than the ten point buck we put next to her.
AA The heaviest buck ever killed in Michigan was over 400 pounds and 14 pointer from Oakland County.
There have been a number of 200# DOES (FIELD DRESSED) taken in the Bemidji area of northern Minnesota over the years.They used to have big doe contests durring gun season there every year-the deer were weighed on cert. scales. CAM
ArrowAtomic - I live in Michigan? We have the same deer although our herd is a little screwed up IMO. Needless to say there are a lot of people who claim/say: I shot a Big, Large, Fat, Huge,(you put in an adjective) DOE. But very few actually weigh them or even give them the common courtesy of a photogaph. Lets see some of these BIG easy to find 150lbs+ Nebraska does? I am not saying they are not there, Denny seems to find a few here in Michigan. All I am saying is they are rare and talk is just talk. I believe a true 150+ after field dress doe is more rare than a P&Y Buck and as you can see by this thread it is proving out.
I just want to keep a thead going to see the Big Gals being shot and if you have a scale - hang em and share their weight.
Keep em cominng - Bob Urban
Southeast Iowa has them!
Bobby,
Here is a Shiawasee County doe taken by my cousin. Just under the 150 mark. As fat as a LaSalle exec after getting his BoA buyout eh?
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MPARKS - That is a Hogger of a Horse head doe - Very nice!!
I cannot imagine the amount of dollars changing hands in this transition from LaSalle to BofA but it is Crazy big. I, unfortunatly, am just a pawn hoping to hold his position in this game.
Keep the pics coming
Bob Urban
150# field dressed doe are hard to find here in MD too.
I lived on my grandparents farm from 1968 to 2003 and monitored the deer population pretty closely on the surrounding 600 acres of farms since the early 80's...only recall shooting one that peaked out around 150. Didn't see many others that would have gotten close to this weight.
Shot this one last year near the burbs at a customer's house, if I remember correctly she was around 140# fd. There was one quite a bit bigger than she was too.
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Keep them coming - TTT
I shot a doe a number of years ago that was at 180 pounds (not with a bow) I shot her far away, closer to 200 yards and didn't really know how big she was until I started walking up on her.... I thought i shot one of the neighbors horses. That doe was bigger than many of the bucks I shoot here in western Pa
Someone once told me there are more 200" bucks than confirmed 150# does killed in IL every year. I tend to agree.
A few weeks ago one of the guys at our achery club told me his buddy shot a 300# field dressed doe. I wanted to ask him if his buddy stalked it in a pasture and called it in by going "mooooooooo".
Bob, I have never shot a doe that big but probably within 10-15 pounds of #150. I too have a fascination with big does and the past week or so on my way to work I have been seeing an absolute monster of a doe. I am tempted to ask permission from the landowner to hunt just to get her. :readit:
My second deer ever (1978) was a doe from southern Illinois weighed on the deer check station scales at 212# field dressed. They said she was between 6.5 and 7 years old. Funny thing was that was the best tasting deer meat I have ever had.
One of the few things corn is really good for....'cept for makin' homebrew.
homebru
Blackhawk - I sure would like to see a piture of that pig. Keep digging into your archived photo albums folks - lets see some big girls from that past too...
I remembered reading this thread as I was looking at this pic I got from this past week....don't know if she's 150 #s but she sure it huge....guess the apples acorns and hay are keeping her well fed...
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Deer weight seems to be just like how far the shot was. Keeps getting bigger the more times the story is told.
I killed one in S. Il. that was put on a scale and she was 172#. She was with a buck I shot also and he scored 164 gross. Big does are in Illinois,maybe one out of 50 if that many. These were gun kills at @ 75 yards. Now gettin them big girls close with a bow is a diffrent story. Out Door Dan
Marc how do you know that isn't a buck that's dropped his antlers already?
This girl was pretty close to 150. Best shot I've ever made... She was stone dead in 4 seconds! Unbelievable!
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160# Western Wisconsin
I've shot and weighed dozens before her that were 115-125 lbs as mature does.
david...another shot her head is straight on and no signs of shed antlers. can't see the body too well so I did't throw that on up on photobucket....
Some beasts there guys, nice.
I love shooting old mares. Their sharp noses and big mouths are responsible for saving the lives of many a deer.
The biggest doe I've shot was actually my first kill with a recurve. One I'll never forget, burned into memory like it was yesterday.
I didn't put her on a scale, but later on I always wished I would have. If I could throw out a guess, she was probably close to 140lbs dressed!
Central PA used to produce 100-125# dressed does frequently when I was younger. Best I've seen in Texas was guesstimated at about 130# dressed, I thought she was a mule deer, but she didn't present a shot. Smart girl.