#2158681 - 11/10/10 08:59 PM
Live Weight Estimates Needed...
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Deck78
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Shot a 9pt today that went almost 215lbs field dressed. What do you reckon he would have weighed with his nuts and guts still attached???
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#2158693 - 11/10/10 09:04 PM
Re: Live Weight Estimates Needed...
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Between 269 and 287 approximately.
Nuts and guts account for 20 to 25% of body weight.
Edited by Bone Collector (11/10/10 09:05 PM)
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#2158694 - 11/10/10 09:06 PM
Re: Live Weight Estimates Needed...
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Man, that's huge. Monster corn belt bucks weigh 300 lbs. Whitetails don't get much bigger than that.
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#2158788 - 11/10/10 09:55 PM
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Don't hear of many that big, I got one 3 years ago that dressed at 230
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#2158838 - 11/10/10 10:37 PM
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Bone Collector is just about right on. See my thread on bigger deer tis year.
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#2159053 - 11/11/10 06:41 AM
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go with what bone collector said
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#2160039 - 11/11/10 04:14 PM
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I looked at hundreds of harvested deer live versus dressed weights and came up with some averages. Although the data was collected in South Carolina and Georgia, I believe the numbers will still hold true in Tennessee. From that data, does and yearling bucks usually have dressed weights that are 75% of live weight. 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 year-old bucks usually have field dressed weights around 80% of their live weight. Mature bucks have dressed weights that are around 82% of their live weight.
So to estimate live weight from dressed weights, divide the dressed weight by:
...for does and yearling bucvks--0.75
...for 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 year-old bucks--0.80
...for mature bucks--0.82
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#2160521 - 11/11/10 08:16 PM
Re: Live Weight Estimates Needed...
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Deck78
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That's about what I figured. Thanks for the input. I just know that I got a couple more that are bigger than this fella and if he went 215 dressed I got a couple pushing 300 live weight!
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