Got the monkey off my back yesterday

[Slinky Pickle]

Short story... drove some, hiked a bunch and saw one deer all day. He was way at the back of a cut block at about 220 yards. We knew he was big but we couldn't make out his points at first. We watched long enough to finally determine that at least one side had a split on the third tine.

I took a rest and waited till he turned enough to show me a target. The 300WSM put him down where he stood. Once we got up to him we realized he was technically a 7 x 5 but I like to refer to him as a 3 x 3... with style.

He weighed 197lbs without guts, head or legs. Skinned and ready for the butcher he weighs 1̶4̶7̶l̶b̶s̶.

*** I was pretty sure that I had some weight on the scale when I zeroed it before re-weighing the skinned deer the other day. Before taking it to the butcher today, I dropped the deer off the hook, zeroed the scale and then picked it back up. 163lbs... not the 147lbs I thought it was. I'm very happy with that!


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[Sofa King]

nice friggin deer.
lots of character on that guy.
congrats.

[hare_assassin]

Nice buck! Congrats!

[Wentrot]

Wow, what a dandy. I'm drooling.

[Salty]

Hell of a deer was he rutting Slinky?

[adriaticum]

Great monkey!

[deer nut]

Dandy buck- congrats!

[wrenchhead]

Looks like his necks starting to swell, good news. Nice buck

[dougan]

Great buck good for you!!!

[Slinky Pickle]

Hell of a deer was he rutting Slinky? He was definitely rutted up. Lots of neck meat. :)

[Bugle M In]

Good on ya...congrats

[Whonnock Boy]

Nice work Pickle. Quality buck for sure.

[Tikka270]

Beauty buck! Congrats.

[Jelvis]

I can't believe it, a roman nozed wall hanger Whoa! What a beauty muley.
That's a keeper right there slick. Nice shootin too, I would ah had some bucks fever happening on that bad boy.
Jel -- awesome buck pickle

[tomahawk]

nice buck, good eatin

[scotty30-06]

Real nice buck brotha.....congrats

[hoochie]

Nice one! beauty!!

[Buckmeister]

Way to go Grant! I hope to do the same thing early tomorrow morning.....so I better get to sleep cause it's like 10:00 pm right now, lol. It's been a quiet season so far, so glad to hear you put it together.

[Buck]

Nice Buck lots of good eats there.

[Coachman]

Holy crap... Thats no 3 point. Whatta hog.

[Elkaholic]

Ground growage....... gotta love it! Great buck.

[Backwoods]

Beauty buck man congrats!!!! Getting me excited to hit reg 8 hard this weekend!!!

[Foxtail]

Nice buck. Same weight as mine from Sept. Area 5?

[M.Dean]

And so it starts! To hunt this time of year a guy needs lots of patience, and a Deer Tag! Great job and incredible shot! Congrats!

[rifleman]

great buck... gettin excited to get out there myself...

[HarryToolips]

Good shot and a great buck, congrats!!

[markomoose]

Good buck Slinky P!!You really have to study the headgear at this time of year especially in a 4 point season to make certain it's legal.Great patience on your part. Cheers Mark

[butthead]

first of the biguns to show up
good news nice buck

[nolimits]

Massive bone on this buck. Congrats!!

[markt308]

Good for you man very nice

[Slinky Pickle]

Updated the original story with the correct post skinning weight.

[markomoose]

Ya ,when you posted originally I thought your buck was much larger but its sometimes hard to judge weight by pictures. Large bodied animal-Both of you.hehehe

[Xenomorph]

Beauty of a buck. Well done.

[Slinky Pickle]

Final bit to the story... for the number crunching folks among us.

Just picked everything up from the butcher. I assume that the deer weighed ~250lbs on the hoof. It was 197lbs with no head, legs or guts. It was then 163lbs as it was presented to my butcher. I got back 53lbs of bone/scrap and 124lbs of meat products (some sausage had pork trim added).

So, a 250lbs animal turned into ~110lbs of actual meat (163 - 53). If you assume that it was 220lbs when the head and legs were still attached but it had been gutted, then a rule of thumb of 50% meat (by weight) of field dressed animal is pretty darn close.

[Xenomorph]

Final bit to the story... for the number crunching folks among us.

Just picked everything up from the butcher. I assume that the deer weighed ~250lbs on the hoof. It was 197lbs with no head, legs or guts. It was then 163lbs as it was presented to my butcher. I got back 53lbs of bone/scrap and 124lbs of meat products (some sausage had pork trim added).

So, a 250lbs animal turned into ~110lbs of actual meat (163 - 53). If you assume that it was 220lbs when the head and legs were still attached but it had been gutted, then a rule of thumb of 50% meat (by weight) of field dressed animal is pretty darn close.




Solid freezer prize, well done.

[Sellis75]

Great buck.

[Thunderstix]

Sweet man!!

[kennyj]

Nice big buck!!
kenny

[meat hunter]

Ya Beauty deer

[Jelvis]

Get a tooth aged it could be in regression as an older stud buck loses his jeans.
Jel -- The buck could be 8 years or older? -- Loss of testosterone -- prolly was a monster rack a few years ago -- but still the bone is hard and quite thick with mass making it a wall hanger

[epicZERO74]

Wow! Monster buck way to go!!

[tachi]

awesome buck! congratulation!

[hunter1947]

Very nice mule deer to tag lots of meat for your freezer,,congrats..