Doug Miller wrote:
"Mike Marlow" wrote in
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Doug Miller wrote:
Hunting season opened at 7:03 this morning. By 9:00, I was
field-dressing a buck. Third year in a row I've gotten a deer before
lunchtime on opening day -- it's nice to be able to hunt private
property after all these years hunting in state forests, along with
a hundred thousand other people. Should wind up with close to a
hundred pounds of venison in the freezer.


100lbs? Geezus - that must have been a monster buck! Post pics.
Most average NE bucks only yield around 60lbs tops.

No monster; by Midwestern standards, it's only medium-sized, even
leaning a bit toward the
small side of medium. No pics to post -- it wasn't big enough to
bother taking any.

I will say this, though: it's the biggest four-point buck I've ever
seen. I was *really* surprised there wasn't at least one more set of
tines on the antlers.

Can't eat the horns anyway. Congratulations! I haven't been out at all
this year, but I do keep an eye on my woods through my den doors - I'm not
worried about being called a redneck for shooting them right off my deck.

Around here the average field dressed buck goes around 130lbs. Yields
around 60lbs of real meat (maybe between 60 and 80lbs), as I said before. A
180lbs buck is a big buck around here. 200lbs is an absolute monster. I've
weighed deer before, but I've never actually weighed the total meat taken
off of them. I've weighed parts of the meat - the amount of hamburger for
example.

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-Mike-