Sometimes we get trail cam pics of big bucks that make us drool. What do you think of this big girl?

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Be careful how you approach this topic. Some liberal is likely to attack you for fat shaming this sensitive doe.

Interesting question.  It's interesting how rack size is the determining factor with those critters that have them, but weight comes into play with others.  Having  P&Y category for does could open up a whole new focus on deer hunting.   

While we all know there's no P&Y classification for a doe, I bet many of us can say we've never harvested a big, mature doe with trad equipment. I've taken a lot of does with trad gear, and I've taken a few "monster " does with other weapons, but I've never taken one with trad gear. I guess an old doe is just too smart for me. A big old doe has saved the lives of many other deer while I was bow hunting. They are a challenging quarry.

An big, mature doe is as hard to kill as any mature buck. 

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Quote from: GCook on November 19, 2018, 09:52:38 AM
An big, mature doe is as hard to kill as any mature buck. 

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AMEN!

that's a big 'ol heffer for sure...kinda makes me wonder how many big bucks she taught the way of the woods

Geez Bill, how do you get them that big up there where all they have to eat is twigs and sticks?
You feed molasses?

I killed one in Montana one year that was close to that. Marty McMahon and I could hardly get her loaded.
She was obviously eating sugar beets for a month before hand.

Quote from: GCook on November 19, 2018, 09:52:38 AM
An big, mature doe is as hard to kill as any mature buck. 

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Maybe harder!!! 

Bisch

She's a bigun for sure!

My biggest harvest was a mature doe. She probably  weighed over 200lbs. I must have been extremely lucky because I haven't been able to harvest a doe since then. Bucks, particularly 2.5 years or younger, seem easy in comparison.

That's a big ol' doe for sure!  A buddy of mine took a huge doe on the last day of ND bow season a couple years ago.  If you didn't see the head, you would have thought it was a good sized buck.

That is a big doe BUT ask anyone that has hunted in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The does up there are huge.

Quote from: Jon Stewart on November 19, 2018, 05:37:42 PM
That is a big doe BUT ask anyone that has hunted in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The does up there are huge.

Yep. I killed a Yooper doe that weighed an honest 147 after hanging for a week.

Surely a huge doe bill. No way to have a measurement other than age on does that would be consistent Nation wide. They do deserve our respect for sure.

Quote from: Jon Stewart on November 19, 2018, 05:37:42 PM
That is a big doe BUT ask anyone that has hunted in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The does up there are huge.

I can't get over the size of the does up here! They're enormous! Currently can't hunt them either so they walk within range all the time lol.

Nice hams on that old gal !! My wife shot an old doe that we had been seeing for a few years close to our house, she was huge had a head like a horse we weighed it after field dressing and it weighed 127 I thought it would be more than that .

She is a big old girl.......nice to see.

Here's a pretty good one from this year. She came in with 2 other mature doe and 2 yearling. She was giant compared to the other 2 mature doe. This picture was taken after I gutted her.

I shot a doe this year that was an  honest 172# on the scale. I never weigh does but she was so different than all the others I have shot we finally did. I have shot several bucks that weren't as big!