Roe Buck and a successful outing

[bigbrother]

Beautiful Buck! Congrats!

[wrenchman]

Is that the same gun you have been working on and what is the average weight of a roe deer
It is cool by the way

[Brithunter]

Originally Posted by wrenchman

Is that the same gun you have been working on and what is the average weight of a roe deer
It is cool by the way

Ahhh I don't think so somehow I think your talking about the P-H 1200C in 26-06. The rifle used on this occasion is a BSA Majestic Featherweight in .270 Winchester..

Now as to Roe weights and nice big buck like this one goes probably about 60-70lbs on the hoof. I recently heard of one that was 58lbs dressed scale weight at the game dealers. That means no feet and the head off. Average I would say is more like 50lbs on the hoof with Does being lighter. My first Roe doe weighted 35lbs dressed out.

The are very fine table fare though.

[wrenchman]

I think the closes we would have here in body size would be the antilope.
It would be cool to have a antlered animal we could hunt in the spring here the game tends to be bear hogs or turkeys.
I have been kicking the idea of going for a hog with the younger son.
I am a fan of the posts frome you and the othere members frome across the pond i get to see animals taken we just dont see here.

[Brithunter]

Well I finally got the photos from my camera downloaed so here they are:-



A fairly typical 6 Pointer



A normal mature Roe Buck has 6 points. Now to be in the medal class the antlers have to be longer and thicker than this one is. Some develop abnormal heads in that the antlers have more points or some tines are exceptionally long. Those sorts are out of my budget.

The Buck I fell kinda sorry for as when eating a nice piece of Backstrap the other evening I found soemthing hard so took it out and teased open the piece I was chewing only to find a .22" Pellet from an air rifle. Some rotten little toe-rag had shot it in the back with a darned Air Gun .