430 pound buck .............

[FOTIS]

430 pound buck shot in Hartford, MI yesterday.

 

[Bruce Mc]

It's real, believe it or not. http://www.wildernesswhitetails.com/ But its from Wisconsin.

 

[Charlie-NY]

Real or not, It sure "looks" FAKE! Have other 400+lb deer been shot there?
You guys better put away those tiny .308 win & 30-06 rifles. LOL

 

[Charlie-NY]

It's real, believe it or not. http://www.wildernesswhitetails.com/ But its from Wisconsin.

I've seen bucks like that before. They were all hanging around the now defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant. :mrgreen:

 

[Dr. Vette]

One of my partners has a patient who owns a deer "ranch." We've been there to hunt cull doe with our kids. The bucks there are more likely to be large and "freaks" than you'll ever see in the wild. I suspect that the odds of seeing one like that in the wild and not in high fence are in the slim-to-none range.

 

[sask boy]

We have some of the biggest bucks in the world here in Saskatchewan. I have shot one buck that dressed 217lbs & I was with my cousin who shot a buck that dressed 225lbs. Both those deer were real close to 350lbs on the hoof :wink:!

Blessings,
Dan

 

[JD338]

The MI WT deer Liberty Hunt for youth and disabled hunters was Sept 19-20 and the Archery season opens Oct 1. Maybe a high fence ranch hunt. Big deer for sure.

JD338

 

[Guy Miner]

" Unlike most Whitetail ranches, Wilderness Whitetails deer spend their entire lives out on the vast property that ranges from dense stands of pines to impenetrable cedar swamps tall timber and rolling hills thick with hardwoods to more open heavy grassy areas. Wilderness Whitetails deer are real wild deer. They truly live their lives in the wild , in the wilderness. No deer are ever brought into Wilderness Whitetails. They are all born here, live here and learn the 1,000-plus acre fair chase property and how to elude our hunters. There are huge 8 and 9-year bucks on the property that we never or rarely see."

From the web site: http://www.wildernesswhitetails.com/

So it looks like the big buck in the photo was shot. But in Wisconsin, and not yesterday.

I'd shoot it. Big enough for me. But it is on a high-fence operation. Worth noting that.

Guy

 

[DrMike]

Would be fascinating to conduct some genetic studies, and even to establish some physical/physiological parameters for such animals. Yeah, it would about have to be a high fence operation. Still, a great animal to see.

 

[Dwh7271]

I'd like to have had him visiting the does on my place.
High fence or not, those might be some good genes.
He's huge.

 

[super-7]

Would be fascinating to conduct some genetic studies, and even to establish some physical/physiological parameters for such animals. Yeah, it would about have to be a high fence operation. Still, a great animal to see.

I'd suggest looking for the "RalGro" tablet injection site behind the ear, that is about the only explanation feasable.
If seen some big body deer in these parts WT and Mule, even a huge muley would have trouble hitting 450 on the hoof. 350lbs I could see as plausible .

 

[Tjay]

news release from the Mn. DNR Minnesota deer facts

(Released October 20, 2014)


The biggest white-tailed deer ever recorded in Minnesota was a 500-pound buck.

I have never seen one this big or anywhere close but they do exist.

 

[Darkhorse]

The buck almost looks too large, even for one that size. Maybe a different camera angle would put it in better perspective.
As far as I can tell, the heaviest buck shot in Georgia weighed 355 pounds dressed. This was taken with a ML (I think) back in the 70's on a state WMA. I remember this buck well, it was in all the local magazines and papers for quite awhile.
Many years ago when the DNR was rebuilding the whitetail herd they brought in deer from several mid western states. Some of our heaviest bucks were taken during that period.
In 1976 I was hunting a lease in a county that had been stocked with Wisconsin deer. I shot a huge buck and brought it home undressed. We had no deer processors or scales. So we dressed them ourselves. My neighbor had built a cooler and that's where I took that buck. The buck was so huge looking we called the game warden to come look at it. The rack was over 20 inches wide and protruded over my truck bed getting a lot of attention when I drove through town 20 or 30 times.
We dug up a old cotton scale that maxed out at 250 pounds. Just as the shoulders began to clear the ground the scale bottomed out. The game warden took some measurements and said it weighed somewhere it mid to high 300 lb. range.
This deer looked like a horse and made me famous. LOL Because at that time deer were just making a comeback and many hunters had yet to kill one and most people had never even seen one.
The next heaviest buck was taken in 1997 and dressed at 225. As the deer herd multiplied and bred with deer from other areas the size has decreased overall and not many really heavy ones have been taken lately. But, the racks seem to be increasing in size witnessed by the B&C bucks taken lately.
This a photo of that big buck. The taxidermist could not find a large enough form so he had to cut skin off the neck to fit it.
So yeah, in my opinion it is possible to kill a 430 lb. buck. Even in the free wild.

 

[Gm weatherby man]

According to the Outdoor Life Book Of World Records the biggest white tail take was November 1926 by Carl Lenander Jr of Minnesota witch Feild dressed at 402 pounds, and the local conservation officer calculated live weight to be 511 lbs. Alberta records indicate white tail as big as 420 lbs and mule deer as 550 lbs have been taken