deer size

beezer · Member Joined: Aug 22, 2005 Posts: 75

Hi guys I wonder if someone could list for me the north american deer species . Smallest to largest and how do they compare to european deer.

515034s10ring · Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 12:17 pm Post subject: Re: deer size

We get some good sized whitetails in Michigan, not often, but the biggens usually dress at 200 lbs +.

DallanC · Site Admin Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3572 Location: Utah

As stated deer size varies with region but generally it goes

Cous
Whitetail
Blacktail
Mule Deer
Caribou
Elk
Moose

beezer · Member Joined: Aug 22, 2005 Posts: 75

Thank's guys. It'll be nice to know and compare what folks are talking about when I read your posts on deer. I see without exotics you've only 1 more than us here. Just bigger.

popgun · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 8:59 am Post subject: Re: deer size

DallanC wrote:

As stated deer size varies with region but generally it goes

Cous
Whitetail
Blacktail
Mule Deer
Caribou
Elk
Moose

You left out one Dallan. The smallest is the Key deer in Florida.

Bushmaster · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:25 am Post subject: Re: deer size

O K...Lets try again...

Key
Cous
Blacktail
Whitetail
Mule Deer
Tule Elk
West Coast Elk
Roosevelt Elk
Moose

I knew there was a smaller deer then the Cous, but I couldn't think of it...Thanks Popgun.

deermanager · Member Joined: Jun 17, 2005 Posts: 50

er yeah!

We got

Muntjac
Chineese Water Deer
Roe Deer
Fallow Deer
Sika Deer
Red Deer

WOW i did it!

1895ss · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:14 pm Post subject: Re: deer size

"Key" deer are a subspecies of Whitetail like "Blacktail" is a subspecies of Mule Deer.

www.kerrlake.com/deer/white.htm

www.calmzoo.org/storie...yReader$71

Bushmaster · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:20 pm Post subject: Re: deer size

1895soslow...And your point?? From the freezer to the table they taste the same...Tasty...But thanks for the biology lesson anyway...

"soslow" Isn't that what "ss" means??? Very Happy

Took me a while to figure it out, but I did... Very Happy

1895ss · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:29 pm Post subject: Re: deer size

I just wanted to be sure you knew that we in North America have Whitetail and Mule Deer and all the subspecies of the two. Very Happy

Anytime you need a hand with your Biology let me know, I'm happy to help..... Poke

the SS stands for Still Superior............. ROFL

Bushmaster · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:32 pm Post subject: Re: deer size

L M A O

DallanC · Site Admin Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3572 Location: Utah

I personally never heard of Key deer until this thread. Learn something new constantly it seems.

-DallanC

1895ss · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 2:21 am Post subject: Re: deer size

Bushmaster wrote:

O K...Lets try again...

Key
Cous
Blacktail
Whitetail
Mule Deer
Tule Elk
West Coast Elk
Roosevelt Elk
Moose

I knew there was a smaller deer then the Cous, but I couldn't think of it...Thanks Popgun.

MORE BIOLOGY
We have in North America
: Whitetail 17 subspecies
www.kerrlake.com/deer/white.htm
: Mule Deer 7-11 subspecies
www.muledeernet.org/specdesc.htm
:Caribou 3 subspecies
www.caribou-hunting.ca...ecies.html
: Elk 6 subspecies : Eastern, Rocky Mountain, Roosevelt, Manitoban, Merriam (extinct) and Tule www.bowhunting.net/NAs.../elk1.html
: Moose 4 subspecies www.bbc.co.uk/nature/a...oose.shtml

So really we have five native deer: Whitetail, Mule Deer, Caribou, Elk and Moose ......right... Bushy...??? Or do we have approximately 40 species....????:-D ROFL

Oops I forgot the Caribou. Thanks Dallan I missed them on your post. Crying or Very sad

1895ss · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:15 am Post subject: Re: deer size

Here in Sask. I hunt Dakota Whitetail, Rocky Mountain Mule Deer, Manitoba Elk and Manitoba Moose. Yep, they all taste good........... Smile

BLASERMAN · Member Joined: Apr 08, 2005 Posts: 68 Location: Baltimore

My coues last Month just weighed may be 75-80 lbs.
The average Doe only is 50-65 Lbs . Some times they will get a Buck
that will go 100 Lbs.