We weigh every deer.

its one of our club rules to weight ever deer we kill

We try to estimate OR weigh every deer for our records. Buck or doe.

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Our scales are part of our hoist system. We weigh every animal simply by default when dressed.

I weighed all the bucks I killed except one 12 point Tn deer I killed. I knew he wasn't going to be more than 170 lbs so I didn't bother.

Most of the time.

Please don't take this as being smart-alec (not remotely my intent), but I just don't care what a deer weighs. Incidentally I do most of my hunting on a military base where they weigh every deer, but any other deer I kill it never even crosses my mind what they weigh. Talking about a deer's weight is a "Yankee" thing to me...it's like somebody telling me they caught a trout that was X-inches long. Drives me silly to hear someone say "there's a HUGE deer crossing the road here", then I'll ask "how big is the rack?", and they'll say "Oh it ain't got no rack, but it's a huge bodied deer!" (That was an actual conversation a landowner told me once)
A 200lb buck might have meager antlers. While the two largest (Alabama) deer I've ever killed (measured by antlers) were probably less than 140 or 150 dressed. I just don't put any concern in the body size. If he's got 130" of antlers, I don't care if he's 150 lbs or 200 lbs.
Again, I'm not intending to be contentious or smart, I'm just throwing out MY practical view of it. I don't hunt for "only 5+ year old bucks" either, so I have no real reason to be judging weights on the hoof. I just always go back to the "judging fish by their length" comparison...not relevant to me. If a bass is 12 lbs, I don't care if she's 24" long or 30" long. Same with a buck.

ikillbux weighing the deer kills if done year to year on the same piece of property is a good way to judge the health of the deer population. If I am hunting somewhere where that is not a concern then I do not weigh them then either.

A lot of people feel the same way as you do. Some people throw out weights, with no knowledge how much a deer weighs. Weight can be a good indicator of age, which is important for people wanting to harvest a certain age criteria, instead of just going for horn porn. I'm interested in all aspects of a deer's biology.

Oh yeah, and I thought about that. That's why the military base does it (they're on some sort of QDM program with Auburn). I reckon I'm just saying as a hunter, not being on a lease or other private land that "requires" it, it's just not a factor I'm concerned with about my deer. I sort of took the question as asking if I judged the "trophy worthiness" of my bucks by their weight, because you so frequently hear folks bragging about how much their buck weighed. I've just never been impressed with body sizes, because there's no 100% correlation to antler size. And in the culture I've grown up hunting in, weight of the deer was just a side note at best. I've never mounted a 14" pencil-racked deer because he field dressed 200 lbs, for example. But I have mounted 130" deer that field dressed 130 lbs.

A 200lb field dressed deer is at least 5 years old, which is a true trophy. A 130lb field dressed deer is a 3 y/o. Great rack, but 2 completely different animals. The main reason i asked the question, was to find out how many people actually weighed them. The people who do are good at estimating weights, those that don't probably aren't. If you go by what you read on here, 200lb deer are common, which i know from 18 years of data, is not true. Just like 140" deer are not near as plentiful as some would think. Always interesting information, when you dig around a little.

I usually weigh them at the processor. I like knowing what I dropped off vs what I get back. If I think he will bust 200, I weigh him.(wish this occurred more often). Hunt Barbour WMA during the rut, all harvest are weighed and aged.

This makes me think about something... For many years I leased some land in Chambers Co near West Point lake (in that neck of the woods, so to speak). There were two distinct deer types on that land: One would be grayish colored, and were short/fat deer. The other were more brownish colored, and were long bodied. You could see it universally between the bucks and does. If you got several deer on a field in an evening, you could distinctly tell the types apart. Those long brown deer would be substantially heavier than the short gray ones. A big mature brown one would dress up to 175 pounds (biggest one we killed, weighed at Rack n Spur on 431), and be as long as your truck bed is wide. A big mature gray one would go maybe 130-140 ish, but would be a "prettier" deer (gray muzzle, Roman nose) and be a lot stubbier bodied. Admittedly I don't know what I'm talking about biologically here, but it was distinct and noticeable. All those deer were healthy as could be, both types of does would almost always have twins, and sometimes would drop triplets.

95% of ours get weighed.

Yeah. Me and my family always tries to guess weight.

We weigh them all and save the jaw bones...