Posted By: Bruce T
240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/09/20 03:45 PM
Shot a 240 pound(field dressed) buck.Made it in the top 40 in the state of Maine.In second picture is my stepson and his 205 pound buck shot the next day on Thanksgiving day.
Posted By: Squash
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/09/20 03:53 PM
Congrats to both of you, great bucks.
Posted By: Getting There
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/09/20 03:53 PM
Now there are two real nice bucks congratulations!
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Posted By: Posco
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/09/20 03:58 PM
Nice deer, Bruce. Did you get out trapping this year? I'm glad you're back.
Posted By: Bruce T
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/09/20 03:59 PM
Nice deer, Bruce. Did you get out trapping this year? I'm glad you're back.
Trapped a few muskrats.I really miss the marten and Fisher trapping but to my hoops and regulations now.
Posted By: Trapper7
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/09/20 04:26 PM
Really nice bucks. Congratulations!
Posted By: MnMan
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/09/20 04:37 PM
Any time a field dressed buck tops 200 pounds it is a big boy. Congratulations on two big boys!
Posted By: pcr2
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/09/20 04:39 PM
dang things make two of ours.great job.
Posted By: Finster
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/09/20 04:45 PM
Wow! What a pig. The farmers will probably get a hundred extra bushels a season with him gone.
Posted By: Posco
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/09/20 04:47 PM
I really miss the marten and Fisher trapping but to my hoops and regulations now.
I had some of those boxes out and I hate them. I've used the old BG boxes and instead of putting a BG inside them, I plant footholds in front of them. Still have the cubbie effect, makes the animal come in from the front and keeps the bait out of sight of the birds from above. I'll let you know when a fisher decides to walk in front of one. I'm not giving up.
I was one step behind the deer all year. Had some bruisers come through but then we had that big early snow and sent all the does heading to the yards. They don't yard anywhere near me and it wasn't long before all the bucks followed the does. Next year.
Posted By: bblwi
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/09/20 05:02 PM
Wow nice deer! The neck on that one buck is just huge. I hope your families like venison as there will be lots of it to eat. Well done. They seem very heavy for just going through a rut so they may have been bigger a month or so earlier.
Bryce
Posted By: swift4me
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/09/20 05:13 PM
One of my roe bucks would fit in the chest cavity of the big one.
Good on you.
Pete
Posted By: Bruce T
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/09/20 05:27 PM
Any time a field dressed buck tops 200 pounds it is a big boy. Congratulations on two big boys!
Thanks.My 16th buck dressing out over 200 pounds in my lifetime.
Posted By: Posco
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/09/20 05:32 PM
Thanks.My 16th buck dressing out over 200 pounds in my lifetime.
The vast majority of the guys here never get one. My biggest was 230 but I missed one that dressed 272 on one scale and 264 on another. The guy that was with me got it. A monster typical 10 pointer.
Posted By: grayfox54
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/10/20 12:14 AM
You guys breeding them with beef cows? Good Lord they’re big!!
Posted By: rick olson
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/10/20 12:30 AM
Great buck's it takes a big deer to dress 200 plus,our hunt club has been together for 77 years,in all those year's they've had 3 bucks dress out over 250,254,253and a 252 8 pt,10 pt and another 10 pt.I've been lucky enough to shoot 3 bucks over 200 lbs 218 was my biggest 11pt.
Posted By: Posco
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/10/20 01:13 AM
Maine grows bucks that will rival deer anywhere but we have a lot of trees in the way.
Posted By: proratman
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/10/20 01:30 AM
WOW! That makes it all worth while!
Posted By: Nessmuck
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/10/20 02:02 AM
Nice going Bruce...that’s a biggin
Posted By: Vincenator
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/10/20 03:11 AM
What cal/gun /bullet did you use?
Posted By: J.Morse
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/10/20 05:03 PM
I have mounted a pile of 200 (dressed) pound bucks..........sort of. I have only killed one 200+ buck in my 51 years of deer shooting, a 205 lb 8 pt that was weighed on a scale, in front of witnesses too! of all those dozens of 200+ bucks I mounted over the years, only about 2% were legit. The rest were "weighed" by guess and by gosh.....usually after a long drag. Many of these deer would not have dressed even 140 lbs. I grew up thinking, like the old-time New England area trackers did, that it was the size of the buck, not it's antlers, that made it a whopper. To this day, I would rather tag another 200+ buck then shoot a buck with 10+ points. A buck with both would be icing on the cake! Congrats to you and your stepson Bruce, those are honest whopper Big Woods bucks! Well done.
Posted By: J.Morse
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/10/20 05:07 PM
I noticed, Bruce, that you didn't state how many points those bucks were.......your apparently an Old School New England deer shooter!
Posted By: proratman
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/10/20 08:56 PM
Love those pictures of those Maine bucks. This story reminds me of the Hinkley Buck.
Posted By: Claypool313
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/10/20 10:39 PM
Heck yeah. Trophy by dressed weight. Id love it. All those extra burgers. I wouldn't need to shoot a doe if they grew that big around here.
Posted By: Bruce T
Re: 240 pound buck day before Thanksgiving - 01/10/20 11:51 PM
I noticed, Bruce, that you didn't state how many points those bucks were.......your apparently an Old School New England deer shooter!
Mine had 8 points and Steve's had 10 points