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#42 ·
My fathers 17pt shot in 86' was a Maine laurel swamp buck(short legs thick short neck)...dressed out @ 200.... 10 years later on the exact same date 11/17 He shot another giant bodied buck(8pt) that dressed out over 220...Both deer dropped in their tracks with a Remington springfield 30-06, both deer were shot at less then 40yds
 
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#45 ·
Boy , if this doesn't get the Northwoods itch going.
I personnel ly saw the 314 lb ( or close to that weight) back in the early 2000 yr time frame. It was shot moose river area , the monster could hardly fit in the back of the lucky hunters truck. That was the dressed weight, so live weight had to be close to 400lb.
I haven't been up there in 10 yrs, family, kids ,work etc. I miss it dearly. Still keep in touch with some locals up north, they say numbers are way down still, and the coyote population is out of control.
 
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LBI Surfrat said:
why did he want to pass it up? it appears to have everything. great buck. Nick
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Good question. He was from S.Carolina. The size of the body compared to the antlers had him confused. Look at a, say a 150 scoring set of antlers on a deer that has a live weight of 120lbs. Put that same set of antlers on a deer that has a live weight of 300lbs.
 
#53 ·
yea I guess so. maybe from a side profile it may appear small but from that head on angle that's a beast! lol. I agree I have seen some Canadian bucks on some of these shows and the antlers didn't match the body but once they got there hands on them it was clear how big those deer are. thanks for sharing. Nick
 
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Dominant Buck said:
Boy , if this doesn't get the Northwoods itch going.
I personnel ly saw the 314 lb ( or close to that weight) back in the early 2000 yr time frame. It was shot moose river area , the monster could hardly fit in the back of the lucky hunters truck. That was the dressed weight, so live weight had to be close to 400lb.
I haven't been up there in 10 yrs, family, kids ,work etc. I miss it dearly. Still keep in touch with some locals up north, they say numbers are way down still, and the coyote population is out of control.
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That was something to remember, #314 dressed is huge! The winter of 2007 was bad and it seems like numbers have been coming back. Of course it depends on where you are hunting, way up north, down east or south. From my experience there are areas in the North Woods with few deer and areas with quite a few. Conditions are key up there. If there is fresh snow, all you need is one big fresh track to have a good hunt! With no snow finding that one deer is unlikely! Now after last winter I think the deer took another hit, but I heard the early part of the winter was not too bad.
 
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longbow said:
That was something to remember, #314 dressed is huge! The winter of 2007 was bad and it seems like numbers have been coming back. Of course it depends on where you are hunting, way up north, down east or south. From my experience there are areas in the North Woods with few deer and areas with quite a few. Conditions are key up there. If there is fresh snow, all you need is one big fresh track to have a good hunt! With no snow finding that one deer is unlikely! Now after last winter I think the deer took another hit, but I heard the early part of the winter was not too bad.
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We were having high hopes here in Maine. Things were starting to slowly get better. We even have a coyote program that killed over 500 of them last winter in sensitive deer wintering areas. Unfortunately the biologists think we lost close to 20% of the deer we had remaining up there because of the brutal winter we had. We're fortunate here in Central Maine. It's more farmland, creating better habitat, so our numbers are a lot higher than up there, and we still have a chance of killing an occasional 200lb+ deer. The problem for non-residents, and even many residents is the posting of most private land. Up north you're hunting paper company land, and usually just pay a pretty low access fee.
 
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Huntfish33 said:
We were having high hopes here in Maine. Things were starting to slowly get better. We even have a coyote program that killed over 500 of them last winter in sensitive deer wintering areas. Unfortunately the biologists think we lost close to 20% of the deer we had remaining up there because of the brutal winter we had. We're fortunate here in Central Maine. It's more farmland, creating better habitat, so our numbers are a lot higher than up there, and we still have a chance of killing an occasional 200lb+ deer. The problem for non-residents, and even many residents is the posting of most private land. Up north you're hunting paper company land, and usually just pay a pretty low access fee.
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Yes, more people = more posting. I shot my biggest buck, 230#, in 2008 after the bad winter. Found that one smoking fresh track at 0630 during a light drizzle, with about 2 inches of snow on the ground that had fallen after midnight. After about 1 hour of tracking up the ridge I got him.
 
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