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HUGE Bucks of th' 60's/70's #2871885
08/06/19 11:18 PM
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I'm talkin' 240 to 275 pound Bucks......Any stories? Mine: 283 lb. 9 point I killed on a Bean field in 1979 in Macon County.....FAT as a Hog!!!

Re: HUGE Bucks of th' 60's/70's [Re: Festus] #2871898
08/07/19 02:01 AM
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9pt dressed 210 killed in lee county , weight him on the scales at the Carville gin in Tallapoosa county
Took four folks to get him out lol

Know of a bunch at of Macon county that dressed 170s to 190s

Saw a lot of big rack bucks but not real heavy come out of Tallapoosa, Lee, Chambers county.

Ain't seen much of nothing come out of Elmore county far from the river

Re: HUGE Bucks of th' 60's/70's [Re: Festus] #2871899
08/07/19 02:23 AM
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Gee's Bend/At The Hog Pen
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None for me. It was 81 when i made it out 😀


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Re: HUGE Bucks of th' 60's/70's [Re: Festus] #2871902
08/07/19 03:43 AM
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BIL killed a 9pt doe early 80s I think,,,,, that scored 126 in Macon county he had the whole deer mounted

Re: HUGE Bucks of th' 60's/70's [Re: Festus] #2871928
08/07/19 05:57 AM
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Pictures, Festus?

Re: HUGE Bucks of th' 60's/70's [Re: Festus] #2871930
08/07/19 06:08 AM
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I have one in my wall that I didn’t kill that was killed in hale county in 82 that weighed 285. Scored 156 as a main frame 7pt with 3 kickers.

Re: HUGE Bucks of th' 60's/70's [Re: Festus] #2871935
08/07/19 06:22 AM
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Here we go again. I guess I need to calibrate our scales. We've weighed every deer we've killed since 1994, killed in the bend of the coosa river. A couple high 140's, a lot of 130" deer. The heaviest deer we've ever killed and he a 5 y/o was 201 live weight. It was in the rut, so maybe he lost 20-25 lbs. Festus, you must have killed one of those Michigan deer they restocked back then.

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Re: HUGE Bucks of th' 60's/70's [Re: Festus] #2871949
08/07/19 06:46 AM
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Iv seen 2 isolated places around the house that can grow 250+ lb deer live weight . The ones around my house only 2 miles away 170-190 lbs max live weight on a 5-6 year old buck . Still scratch my head on this one . How is there a 70-80 lb discrepancy that close together . Iv seen the same on does , one 5 yo doe will weigh 85 lbs and one just down the road weigh 135 lbs and be a full 6” taller at the shoulder .

Re: HUGE Bucks of th' 60's/70's [Re: Festus] #2871983
08/07/19 07:43 AM
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somewhere around 112.
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I know of a few that have been killed in Dallas County in the last 20 years that were over 250. One was 267lbs and scored 138. The other I helped load on a four wheeler. He didn't have a big rack but he was the fattest deer I ever seen. Don't know exact weight but he might as well have been 300lbs, we almost couldn't get him out of there. He fell dead near a ditch so we put the four wheeler in the ditch and rolled the deer down onto the front rack. He bent one of the handle bars on it. Then we couldn't get the four wheeler out of the ditch because it was wanting to flip over so we had to use the winch to get it out. Now that deer only scored 102, but a few days later another buck was killed a few hundred yards away that weighed 178 and scored 143. Deer are like people, you have your bigguns and your skinny ones. Back when DC had more bean fields than pine trees you could see a lot of 150"+ bucks.


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Re: HUGE Bucks of th' 60's/70's [Re: Festus] #2871995
08/07/19 08:06 AM
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Biggest buck I've ever seen on the scales was a 10 point killed in north Pike county, Saco, around 1968. He was 310 pounds.
I've killed 3 bucks that were around 221 pounds on the scales in Barbour county.

Re: HUGE Bucks of th' 60's/70's [Re: Festus] #2871999
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Killed many over 200 biggest was 240


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Re: HUGE Bucks of th' 60's/70's [Re: Festus] #2872002
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My son killed a 9 pt. in 2011 in south Montgomery county , club scales weighed him at 252, the processors scales weighed him at 248, live weight. Our club has killed a few 200-215 lb. bucks over the last 8-10 years. Most of the time they average 180-190.

Re: HUGE Bucks of th' 60's/70's [Re: Festus] #2872017
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Jimmy Bailey, who killed the state record B&C typical, killed two bucks over 300 pounds in the late 70's in Hale Co, both weighed on cotton scales. There was a buck killed in Pickens Co in the 60's that weighed 365 live weight. Dang thing looks like an elk in the pics of it. I saw a deer killed in Wilcox Co, 1974 er so, that weighed 285 live weight.


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Re: HUGE Bucks of th' 60's/70's [Re: Festus] #2872020
08/07/19 08:35 AM
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Why were they that big then but not now? Maybe they are now, I just dont know anyone personally who sees any like that.

Re: HUGE Bucks of th' 60's/70's [Re: Festus] #2872025
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I'm guessing because the deer density was low and the northern strain was still 100%. Thru the years deer density has increased and northern strain has been watered down.

Re: HUGE Bucks of th' 60's/70's [Re: JBL] #2872040
08/07/19 08:59 AM
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Originally Posted by JBL
Why were they that big then but not now? Maybe they are now, I just dont know anyone personally who sees any like that.


More row crops and less pine plantations back then. The heaviest buck I’ve killed was a 220# 9pt here in Fosters back in 1998.


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Re: HUGE Bucks of th' 60's/70's [Re: Festus] #2872056
08/07/19 09:11 AM
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The biggest deer I’ve ever killed was in Blount county. It weighed 200 even on my scales but was only a 6 point. He was aged at 6. The biggest I e seen killed was by my son a couple of years ago in Tuscaloosa county. It weighed 223 pounds at the processor. Scored in the low 120s. But, it was only aged at 3.

Re: HUGE Bucks of th' 60's/70's [Re: JBL] #2872063
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Originally Posted by JBL
Why were they that big then but not now? Maybe they are now, I just dont know anyone personally who sees any like that.


When row crops turned to pine plantations away went the good groceries.

Re: HUGE Bucks of th' 60's/70's [Re: Shaw] #2872071
08/07/19 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Shaw
Originally Posted by JBL
Why were they that big then but not now? Maybe they are now, I just dont know anyone personally who sees any like that.


More row crops and less pine plantations back then. The heaviest buck I’ve killed was a 220# 9pt here in Fosters back in 1998.

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks

Re: HUGE Bucks of th' 60's/70's [Re: JBL] #2872082
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Originally Posted by crocker
I have one in my wall that I didn’t kill that was killed in hale county in 82 that weighed 285. Scored 156 as a main frame 7pt with 3 kickers.

Originally Posted by JBL
Why were they that big then but not now? Maybe they are now, I just dont know anyone personally who sees any like that.

Not sure what the area you hunt is like but it’s more common where I hunt to shoot a 200+ lb deer. We are surrounded by corn and soybeans so that’s obviously a reason why. My father and I are the only two that hunt it and it’s a very large tract of family land. My largest was weighed at 235# live weight on a set of very good scales. Shot him late November 2016. Around thanksgiving is when our rut starts. Between my father and I, we’ve killed several over 200#. I’ll say that we are VERY lucky to hunt the property we do.

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