biggest doe? oldest doe?

[gordydog]

What was the weight of the biggest whitetail doe you have harvested?   What was the oldest doe?

[koger]

I have harvested 4 big ole gals, along with a lot of normal size ones. I took a #130 doe gutted this fall, KY TJ killed some nice ole nanny's this past fall also. My biggest was #138, gutted. She had a tag in her ear, I took it out, called Ky F&W, they had me send it in. They looked up the info, send the tag back with a letter. She was 8 and 1/2 years old, barren doe. She had been part of a trailer load of deer heading from western KY that had been captured for restocking purposes for eastern KY. The truck had broken down in 90.0 + weather in July, deer were suffering from heat stress so they turned them loose in Russell County to save them. I live in Wayne County, She had been turned loose across the lake and had to cross where it was nearly a mile wide to get to my side at some point. She had traveled close to 16 miles from where she was turned loose. I thought this was interesting, still have the tag!

[wapiti792]

I didn't weigh this ol nanny but she was at least 7. No jaw teeth. She had been on the property since we got it and cost me many a buck. Smart, mean big girl. If I had to guess her weight field dressed, easily 120 #. For reference I am 6'3" and weigh, gulp...240.
 

[A.S.]

I killed an old girl last year on a military installation. The Va DNR puts the hunt on and has biologists on hand to inspect/age all deer killed.

The biologist said my doe was 8 1/2 plus. She looked every bit if it. I saw a buck several times that day that had to have been at least 12 years old. He reminded me of my yellow Lab when he was 13. It looked like every step that buck took was painful. His eyes were sunken in and his hip bones and ribs were very visible.

[VictoryHunter]

My biggest and first was 120+ dressed.

[frassettor]

I'm not sure of the weight of this one, I know that it was the biggest and the oldest one I harvested of 20+ years. A lot of gray in her face

 

[reddogge]

Shot this one in 2008 but we forgot to weigh her. I had to call a friend to help me drag her across my property to hang her. I couldn't budge her.

 

[Izzy]

Awesome deer fellas, I dig big gals.

In NW Iowa it is not uncommon to see does that are larger than most of the bucks. I heard of one killed during a gun season a couple of years ago that weighed over 200 dressed weight when they brought it to the butcher. My biggest was 163, I thought it was going to be over 200. there have been a couple of giant does on a farm that we used to hunt. We never even got a shot at them. Those old does were smart and cautious.

[Norminator]

Some big ole does there

[Gil Verwey]

In my area in the Pinelands the deer are not big bodied so any does I have taken have not been heavy weights. A 10 point buck that scored 163 typical dressed 125.

I did shoot a 8 pt buck that the check station said could have been as old as 11. He had one eye and cuts and scars all over him. He was way on the down side and probably wouldn't have lived another year. Not a doe but the oldest deer I have shot.

BUT I SHOT HIM ON HIS GOOD EYE SIDE! Ha!

[IndianaBowman]

Didn't weigh her, but she was harder to load in the truck by myself than the bucks I killed this year. She had some pretty worn teeth that I estimated her to be at least 6.

 

[Matthew Bolton]

Shot her this year. Dressed around 130lb and was 7+ years old probably older.

[kennym]

Nice deer guys!! I would almost rather take a big doe as a buck, almost....

I let the biggest doe I've ever seen walk this year, and it bit me in the rear.

I could hear a buck breaking some pretty big stuff where she came from, so I wanted to see what he was.

Ended up she got a sniff of something she didn't like(me) and blew 4 times, then smugly walked off. The buck , a great 8 about 140ish walked around me at 45 yds after she came thru at 8.

Got greedy, but left some huge deer genetics there!

[KevO]

I shot a doe this fall that dressed at 135 pounds.  Her teeth indicated she was at least 4.5 yr's old.

[John Scifres]

Fat bottomed girls they make the rockin' world go 'round.

Biggest I actually weighed was 130# dressed and I couldn't quite get all of her off the ground since she was longer than my garage was tall.  I killed one last year that I believe was bigger but I didn't weigh her.

Oldest was 6 but she wasn't all that big.  Aged by the DNR while doing a CWD study.

[wapiti792]

Those are some big ones! To me a long nosed nanny is way more of a challenge than any rutted up buck. They just have a sixth sense and I can tell you from the one in the pic, they will ruin a rendezvous with a big buck. She nailed me 3 different times with big bucks with her. She musts looked good to every old buck around  

[Jayrod]

Gotta love big nannys!!

[doug77]

Two years ago I killed a big ole doe that had a big chunk of her left ear missing, I had been hunting this farm for 5 years before I got her and she was their when I first got on the property. I can't tell you how many times she busted me but it was a lot. She was by far the biggest doe I have ever shot and I still feel the only reason I killed her was because the coyotes were chaseing the deer in that timber for almost an hour and ran her past my stand.

doug77

[doubleo]

My biggest was 132# and I won the big doe contest at our local bowman's club. The butcher found a broadhead high in her back that was completely healed over from the previous year. I don't know how old she was, but i'd guess at least four.