What was the weight of the biggest whitetail doe you have harvested? What was the oldest doe?
I have harvested 4 big ole gals, along with a lot of normal size ones. I took a #130 doe gutted this fall, KY TJ killed some nice ole nanny's this past fall also. My biggest was #138, gutted. She had a tag in her ear, I took it out, called Ky F&W, they had me send it in. They looked up the info, send the tag back with a letter. She was 8 and 1/2 years old, barren doe. She had been part of a trailer load of deer heading from western KY that had been captured for restocking purposes for eastern KY. The truck had broken down in 90.0 + weather in July, deer were suffering from heat stress so they turned them loose in Russell County to save them. I live in Wayne County, She had been turned loose across the lake and had to cross where it was nearly a mile wide to get to my side at some point. She had traveled close to 16 miles from where she was turned loose. I thought this was interesting, still have the tag!
I didn't weigh this ol nanny but she was at least 7. No jaw teeth. She had been on the property since we got it and cost me many a buck. Smart, mean big girl. If I had to guess her weight field dressed, easily 120 #. For reference I am 6'3" and weigh, gulp...240.
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I killed an old girl last year on a military installation. The Va DNR puts the hunt on and has biologists on hand to inspect/age all deer killed.
The biologist said my doe was 8 1/2 plus. She looked every bit if it. I saw a buck several times that day that had to have been at least 12 years old. He reminded me of my yellow Lab when he was 13. It looked like every step that buck took was painful. His eyes were sunken in and his hip bones and ribs were very visible.
My biggest and first was 120+ dressed.
I'm not sure of the weight of this one, I know that it was the biggest and the oldest one I harvested of 20+ years. A lot of gray in her face
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Shot this one in 2008 but we forgot to weigh her. I had to call a friend to help me drag her across my property to hang her. I couldn't budge her.
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Awesome deer fellas, I dig big gals.
In NW Iowa it is not uncommon to see does that are larger than most of the bucks. I heard of one killed during a gun season a couple of years ago that weighed over 200 dressed weight when they brought it to the butcher. My biggest was 163, I thought it was going to be over 200. there have been a couple of giant does on a farm that we used to hunt. We never even got a shot at them. Those old does were smart and cautious.
Some big ole does there
In my area in the Pinelands the deer are not big bodied so any does I have taken have not been heavy weights. A 10 point buck that scored 163 typical dressed 125.
I did shoot a 8 pt buck that the check station said could have been as old as 11. He had one eye and cuts and scars all over him. He was way on the down side and probably wouldn't have lived another year. Not a doe but the oldest deer I have shot.
BUT I SHOT HIM ON HIS GOOD EYE SIDE! Ha!
Didn't weigh her, but she was harder to load in the truck by myself than the bucks I killed this year. She had some pretty worn teeth that I estimated her to be at least 6.
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Shot her this year. Dressed around 130lb and was 7+ years old probably older.
Nice deer guys!! I would almost rather take a big doe as a buck, almost....
I let the biggest doe I've ever seen walk this year, and it bit me in the rear.
I could hear a buck breaking some pretty big stuff where she came from, so I wanted to see what he was.
Ended up she got a sniff of something she didn't like(me) and blew 4 times, then smugly walked off. The buck , a great 8 about 140ish walked around me at 45 yds after she came thru at 8.
Got greedy, but left some huge deer genetics there!
I shot a doe this fall that dressed at 135 pounds. Her teeth indicated she was at least 4.5 yr's old.
Fat bottomed girls they make the rockin' world go 'round.
Biggest I actually weighed was 130# dressed and I couldn't quite get all of her off the ground since she was longer than my garage was tall. I killed one last year that I believe was bigger but I didn't weigh her.
Oldest was 6 but she wasn't all that big. Aged by the DNR while doing a CWD study.
Those are some big ones! To me a long nosed nanny is way more of a challenge than any rutted up buck. They just have a sixth sense and I can tell you from the one in the pic, they will ruin a rendezvous with a big buck. She nailed me 3 different times with big bucks with her. She musts looked good to every old buck around :)
Gotta love big nannys!!
Two years ago I killed a big ole doe that had a big chunk of her left ear missing, I had been hunting this farm for 5 years before I got her and she was their when I first got on the property. I can't tell you how many times she busted me but it was a lot. She was by far the biggest doe I have ever shot and I still feel the only reason I killed her was because the coyotes were chaseing the deer in that timber for almost an hour and ran her past my stand.
doug77
My biggest was 132# and I won the big doe contest at our local bowman's club. The butcher found a broadhead high in her back that was completely healed over from the previous year. I don't know how old she was, but i'd guess at least four.
Kentucky TJ and his zipper always seem to turn up big fat skillet heads!! I'm sure he'll post a pic here soon!
Biggest deer I ever killed was a doe. She was well over 120# dressed and was at least 6 1/2 years old. Upon seeing her, my cousin said "Mighty big doe ya got there, uh huh!"
Back when I wore a younger man's cloths I shot a doe that weighed 161 pounds dressed on our hog scales. I had to go get the tractor with the bucket loader on the front to get her to the barn. If I ever see another one like her I'm going to pass because it was just to much darn work. Oh well!!!!!!
Regards,
Grouse
I dont like to think of em as big so much as "experienced" lol.
Great deer fellas!
The biggest I have killed was 119 pounds field dressed and skinned. A guy in our local club killed one 150 pound field dressed.
My biggest doe was from a heavy hunted public land here in Arkansas. That year there was a check station that pulled the jawbone and weighed them for a study. She was 4 1/2, live weight of 147#. Thats a big doe for this area.
I did kill at least one that was older, 6+. She was your average 90-100# doe for around here. I rarely check age on does because I just am happy to fill the freezer. I really only pay attention to a does age if there is something making me wonder. As long as the does are over 1 1/2 its good enough for me.
Chris
Nice does. Looks like 160's is near the top weight. I hear of people talk about 200 pound does, but I don't think they put them on a scale...unless you guys know otherwise. How about those heavy Canadian deer? I'd like to see a picture of a "weighed" 200 pound doe.
I didn't kill this one but in the town I hunt one was hit and killed by a car. I had bumped into a buck with my car that night and the officer on call and I looked for him with no luck. But he said he had a big doe near the station that was just hit and the driver didn't want it but I could take it. I did. I got it home, field dressed her in the woods back of the house and brought her to the butcher the next morning. I knew she was big but when we weighed her she topped the scales at 140#! She was living on the edge of the University of NH Agricultural farm and was eating very well. She is also one of the tastiest deer I have ever eaten.
My son shot a buck that was 240 dressed weight, it was hard just to roll it over to feild dress it. He was chasing a very large doe that my son shot a couple of weeks later that went 150 plus, it had that typical flat nose of a very old deer. All of the pics were with film so I cannot download them. But hanging from the same tree branch, the size difference was obvious. I think lots of times the big does look beefier because their body shape is different. We do get the occasional giant in our area, I think the average 4 year old doe is around 130 when they hang them on the scales.
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Tracy
I don't remember what year it was, but about 15-18 years ago I killed a big old doe that was 143# field dressed. This was in Northern MO where it is pretty common for me to see or take does over 100#. 120# is not uncommon.
The biggest doe I have hunted are in KS. I think they are born at 100#!
Thanx for posting that pic brother....that was one big ol' Kansas gal!!!
And an even better memory shared with you guys :campfire:
I gotta see if I can get that video up...
Wish we would have weighed her...look at the size of her head!!
Biggest 143# from Wi., several from 130-135 over the years from Mn and Ia
I shot a doe that was 11 1/2 years old.
Her WT. was 57 pounds.The game warden aged her.
She was in REAL bad shape.
Randy