#1892582 - 04/20/10 10:08 PM
Is there a record?
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RKenney
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On the heaviest deer ever killed in Tennessee. I have never seen
a published report on weight records, but I suppose there could
be. Many of us hunters focus on antler records, but it would be
interesting to know some #of pounds records for a Tennessee deer.
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#1892631 - 04/21/10 12:50 AM
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I'm sure there are some records from official scales. But I don't trust anything else. All kinds of inaccuracies come off of unofficial scales. How many pics of "150#" does are posted on here every year? How many of those does do you really think weighed anything close to that?
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#1892634 - 04/21/10 03:12 AM
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Looking at TWRA's collected data most counties avg mature buck weight in TN is about 200lbs more or less. Cumberland Co is 220 lbs avg field dressed. I believe Hamilton Co averages over 220 lbs as well. You would think a state record would approach 300 having avgs like that. Havent seen any record of it though. Doubt that info like that gets much attention since we are supposed to be a small buck state with poor soils. 
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#1892660 - 04/21/10 05:57 AM
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Looking at TWRA's collected data most counties avg mature buck weight in TN is about 200lbs more or less. Cumberland Co is 220 lbs avg field dressed. I believe Hamilton Co averages over 220 lbs as well. You would think a state record would approach 300 having avgs like that. Havent seen any record of it though. Doubt that info like that gets much attention since we are supposed to be a small buck state with poor soils.
Tree Tramp,
Where are you getting this information? I'm not saying it isn't so, but it's hard for me to believe that anywhere in TN has an average field dressed weight of 220 lbs.
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#1892701 - 04/21/10 06:40 AM
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Looking at TWRA's collected data most counties avg mature buck weight in TN is about 200lbs more or less. Cumberland Co is 220 lbs avg field dressed. I believe Hamilton Co averages over 220 lbs as well. You would think a state record would approach 300 having avgs like that. Havent seen any record of it though. Doubt that info like that gets much attention since we are supposed to be a small buck state with poor soils. Tree Tramp, Where are you getting this information? I'm not saying it isn't so, but it's hard for me to believe that anywhere in TN has an average field dressed weight of 220 lbs.
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#1892709 - 04/21/10 06:46 AM
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Although Im sure there is an exception out there somewhere,a buck that would live weight around 300,but I doubt field dressed 300,that would be close to a 375 live weight deer.Heck I killed a 245 lb live weight buck in SC,in a very,very poor soil ara,there are always exceptions.
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#1892801 - 04/21/10 08:41 AM
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The biological data is not field-dressed weight. It is live weight. Field dressed weights are divided by 0.75 to get the live weight (although in my experiences that is an inaccurate modifier: it should be 0.75 for does, fawns and yearling bucks; 0.80 for 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 year-old bucks; and 0.82 for bucks 4 1/2+).
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#1892864 - 04/21/10 09:09 AM
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Good info didn't know.
I heard of a large bodied deer killed on Catosa a few years ago.
Edited by TN RDG RNR (04/21/10 09:11 AM)
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#1893303 - 04/21/10 02:04 PM
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The biological data is not field-dressed weight. It is live weight. Field dressed weights are divided by 0.75 to get the live weight (although in my experiences that is an inaccurate modifier: it should be 0.75 for does, fawns and yearling bucks; 0.80 for 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 year-old bucks; and 0.82 for bucks 4 1/2+).
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#1893517 - 04/21/10 05:21 PM
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largest live weight doe at Chaney was 175 lbs
largest live weight buck at Chaney was 220 lbs
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