don't know if this topic has come up before, what is the biggest dressed weight of a texas deer that you have personally taken or seen. biggest i've got is 160 lbs, we had one on our ranch that dressed 195. thats the biggest that i've heard of from a texas deer. i heard of one up in junction that dressed 175, still a brute. uncle of mine hunted up in maine, killed one that went over 300 pounds, would have liked to see that buck on the hoof, must have been huge. record live weight for any species of whitetail is 511 lbs.

pre rut, here in san saba we've had was mine at 129 lbs. thats about 180 on the hoof

Back in 1983 and '84 a gang of us were hunting on the ranch that was owned by the Schliecher County Ag Agent, Ronnie Mittel just a couple miles north of El Dorado. Seems like it was in '84 one of the guys, Ernie Barnes or Mark Kemper, shot the biggest WT I'ver seen in Texas for body mass as a mature 8 point. I just remember that it took 4 or 5 of us to load the deer up in a pick up truck out in the field, and that the deer weighed more the Ronnie's official cotton scale would show and bottomed it out with a very firm thud after it had been field dressed... and the scale went to 200 pounds.
Ronnie confirmed that it was not a Mule Deer or even a hybrid but a pure White Tail.
My 6-7 year old 10 Pt Desert Muley from near Van Horn only weighed about 212-215 dressed so that was one Hoss of a White Tail.
Most of the big WT's I've seen or taken run about 145 - 165 field dressed and only seen a handful of bucks go over 150 dressed in 30 years...and none of mine have been that big.
Ron

A doe, from my land, south of Bowie . We didn't weigh it after gutting but prior to it, the gal went about 190 lbs. on cotton scales. This was about 10 years ago and we had several of them around. I haven't seen anything like that in quite a while and the bucks were always dwarfed by them.

Don't know what the field dressed weight was, but my former hunting partner shot a doe up on the place we hunted in Montague, that after we got thru getting her ready to go to the processor, and this was a carcass ready to be cut up, and it was 85 pounds hanging weight at the processor. That was one of the biggest Texas deer I have personally seen.

My biggest was last year. He was not weighed until skinned, head and legs cut off and he went 125# on TD processing's scales.

The 10 pt i took last year was my biggest in over 35 years of hunting whitetails, although i didn't weigh him, I'm pretty sure he would have went well over 200 lbs. After loading him in to the back of my truck by my self, he felt more like 500 lbs.

My biggest was last year's buck and he was 170 dressed but very, very run down from the rut. a 215 won the heavy weight at DF&G's contest. The heaviest off the ranch I'm on last year was 210. I have my eye on a BIG bodied 8 point cull that for sure will dress over 200. I have a picture with him in between two 5.5 year old bucks that will probably dress 160 or so and he makes them look like does!

I can't remember where I saw this at (maybe in the news paper), but there was a WT shot in the Panhandle that dressed over 250 last year. There are some absolute brutes up there!

Don't know actually live weights for have dressed weights
My 10 pt last year was 4.5 yr old and dressed at 118# so live weight probably around 150 or so
My buddies 7 pt was 5.5 yr old and dressed at 156# so probably closer to 190#'s.

This is in the Pineywoods. There were a couple others over 150 field dressed but my buds was the heaviest taken last year.

My largest deer (9 point) that I got two years ago in the Bosque area field dressed at 150lbs. Largest buck taken there in 20 years. I am scared they are all gone now.

The bigest deer I have shot was a 10pt in kendal county, he dressed 115, which is pretty good for a lowfence hillcountry lease, without a drop of protein on it. Estimated age was 5.5, old deer.

matt

My personal biggest was my last years buck in my Sig, he came from the Lake Brownwood Area and he Field dressed 169lbs at the processing plant. In the early 90's a friend killed a giant 11pt in Williams,Tx near May and Rising Star, he field dressed 226 lbs.

Killed one in north texas 2 years ago that field dressed 189 lbs. Killed a deer in oklahoma 194 lbs.

8 point Buck-250 Lbs in Kansas, Texas... Ha Ha actually it was Parsons Kansas. Texas Buck 150 Lbs.

West Texas last yeat. 162# dressed weight.11pt.

Mulie taken last November, south of Marfa, dressed 200 lbs. I know it's not a whitetail, but the question related to "Texas deer".