10-15 years a go in Wilcox Co Flatwood HC we would kill 4-6 every year that weighed between 215-240. We didn't have agriculture but the whole 12,000 acres at the time was covered up in waist to shoulder high honeysuckle. that stuff will put the weight on some deer. Then they timber company started spraying and killing everything but pine trees and sage grass and the weights dropped about 50 lbs on average. My son, Team Duckdown killed at least 4 that weighed over 215lbs including an 8point that weighed between 235 and 240 on 2 different scales.

I am with you on that, diet can surely play a big part in an animals weight.

northern strain was found in only a few small select locations. Irrelevant to 99% of Alabama, esp the blackbelt where a LOT of the bigger bucks came from. As in soybeans.

I'm still waiting on a picture. I know there were camera's in the 60's and 70's. And I'm talking about these 250+. I seriously just want to see a picture of one.

Heck, I killed a 242# and a 251# back to back days off the same hot doe, 1995 er so. They still around.

Good read on this subject:
https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.co...ig-bucks-ala-hunting-industry/738210001/

Yep. What he said. Pine plantations don't provide much nutrition for deer. When I was a teenager there were corn and soybean fields everywhere here in Wilcox County and 200 plus pound bucks were not uncommon at all. Now it's pretty much just pine plantations. My personal best Alabama deer weighed 220 pounds. 8 point, killed him on a push drive. He stopped two bullets from a 30-06. I recovered both from just under the skin on the off side.

Hush yer mouth, there's a few on here that will tell ya pines is superior to any other habitat in the state.

I don't remember anybody taking pics of Deer back in those days....I searched through some old pics and don't have any Dead Deer pics. Guess it was common enough it wasn't that big of a deal during those Glory days of endless soybean fields....

I saw one mounted in mexican restaurant in Camden Sunday that ad a plaque which said it weighed 264lbs. Killed in 1978. Needs a new cape bad. Whoever shot it said it was their 104th deer.

I've killed 3 bucks that went over 200lbs. Coosda-205lbs and 210lbs. Shot one in Lowndes opening day about 5 years ago that went 213lbs.

Dr. B

I’ve got a few of my grandfathers mounts that he killed during the 80’s in South Montgomery. Both were over 240lbs+ Back when they still had row crops. They had a pile of 130”-150” antlers that had been cut off and thrown in the corner of the barn.

They are a truck bed full when they get that big

Two pages of 200+ pound bucks, blah, blah, blah and not one single picture yet?

I am gonna bet everyone did not have access to scales like we all do today so I expect a lot of the weights were guestimates

And I doult there will be many pictures either

Back then there were scale too . We used scales at cotton gins

I have killed two in Dallas Cty within the last 10 years, one was 230's# and the other was 240# live weight. A lot of ag on the land I use to hunt and it was not uncommon to kill a mature deer that weighed over 200#.

The pictures of two I killed.

First is 230’s 9 point. The other is a 240# 8 that is probably one of the oldest bucks I’ve ever killed. He was full grown body wise.

Think about this , nearly all the big deer back then we're kill because of dog hunting . If I remember right the one Troy stated was killed on a dog drive . Man drives are deadly on big bucks ..

They way a lot of us hunt ain't gonna see deer like this . They get 6/7 or older they hard to kill .


Just add this, imo a muture buck is 6 and ovet not 41/2 to 51/2

I got some did but just like today a bunch just say what they think one weighs