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We used to kill a lot of 200 lb bucks. But then I bought some scales and all of them dropped to 170 or below.  I have killed one deer since 1980 that weighed over 200, and he weighed 210 in the middle of January. His rack was disappointing for one that big. When deer first started appearing in our area of Perry County in the 60s it wasn't uncommon to kill a 200 pound deer. There was a lot of Ag still around then. As the land was converted to pines, the body size of the deer dropped a lot. There was a time in the early 90s that we were killing 3-4 year old bucks that would weigh 125-140. Nearly all the land around was pines that hadn't been thinned, and there just wasn't much to eat. The thinning of those first plantations started about then and the deer got bigger immediately. Now, there is a lot more variation in the land management, and a lot of supplemental feeding, and 200 lbs is not as uncommon. Still, we went 20 years without weighing a 200 lb deer.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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