I’ve got a pic of a 240 pound 10 point killed 3 years ago on the place I hunt.

I can’t post a pic right now since tinypic went down and I haven’t figured out a new hosting site.

If you want to see it I will text to someone to post.

I've got one on my wall that weighed 262 on a certified scale at Taylor's deer processing. My dad has killed 3 or 4 over 225 over the years. Seen several around 250 killed out of south montgomery. Not that uncommon around here.

This. Around my neck of the woods they dont cull deer.

The 310# buck I have mentioned several times was weighed on the Saco store platform scales, probably as accurate as you could find. No pictures, nobody carried a camera around with them back then and there probably aren't 3 or 4 people, if that, still alive that witnessed it.

Exactly. I don't have any photos of my first couple of deer. No one carried an Instamatic, film and flash cubes back then unless you were on vacation, going to a funeral for graveside flower photos, a family or school reunion, or were involved in a wedding.

If it was big enough to photograph you might drop by the local newspaper office IF you wanted anyone to know or it was really significant. Otherwise, gut, cut and done.

Maybe all these gigantic Saskatchewan sized Alabama deer were just before my time. I have been hunting or have known people hunting in Alabama since the mid seventies. The heaviest deer I have ever credibly heard of was a 230 lb 12 pt killed in Sumter County in the mid seventies. I saw the picture of that one and although I cannot verify the weight, it was a toad for sure. I, like others on here have said, would love to see some pictures of these gigantic bucks from the glory days. We may never see Alabama deer of that size again.

What is interesting here in Florida is the rising number of 200 lb bucks in recent years. Just about every club I used to hunt has taken one or more a year lately. I watched a 210 lb 8 pt weighed on good scales last season. When I was hunting Florida, 180 lbs was about the biggest I ever saw. I killed that one on the Escambia River and he had wide skinny horns that probably score around 90". Why are Florida deer increasing in body weight? Baiting has been allowed since at least 1990 so it isn't that.

Interestingly, FL buck scores are going up as well. I know of 3 killed within 80 miles of my house in the last two years that were 140 or better. That was unheard of when I hunted here.

Man pics of all these 250 lb bama deer are rarer than sasquatch pics.

I’ve hunted the same general area since the mid seventies. Those deer haven’t changed much. You see an occasional 200 plus live weight but not much over that, it was the same in the seventies. Very little agriculture then or now in this area.

x2....bout the same here...

Like people, the older they get the heavier they get. More and more folks are letting bucks get older now days.

Probably what is happening now that you mention it. All of the local clubs are leased from RMS and they have a mandatory minimum harvest age of 3.5, no exceptions.

I personally saw one hanging on the scales last yr that went 258#

In NW Fl just below Samson in 1985 or so we were dog hunting and the dogs ran a buck across the road and a guy in a pickup hit it. The buck weighed 243 on the processor's scales.

Aww hell...maybe with you and him both on the gambrel

Not sure what this one will weigh but I would bet my paycheck it’s over 200

Damn what a fat old buck. You better get that one soon or he will die of old age. When they get really "short legged" like that, they are old.

Yea that one's old as methuselah

I killed one this afternoon that weighed 210. Edge of soybean field in Orangeburg county. I weighed it myself. They are common in the area I hunt. Full velvet

Congrats!

I’ve heard of some 350 pounders just never seen them!