A lot is heard about how much a deer weighs field-dressed. But have you wondered how much the deer weighed while he was alive?It’s an interesting piece of information to have and to share with others. Whitetails Unlimited Editor Jeff Davis recently published method how to calculate the live weight of a whitetail.
There are a couple of different methods to estimate the live weight of a deer. The first is to calculate the live weight by multiplying the weight of the deer after it has been field dressed (or dressed and skinned, or fully processed) by a coefficient, resulting in the estimated live weight. The other popular method is to measure the girth of the chest and determine the live weight from a chart.
Either method is reliable, but remember that it is still an estimate. Poor shot placement may result in more wasted meat, and just as is in people, there may be individual variation in body types that result in one animal weighing more or less than a second animal with the same girth measurement… [continued]
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