Deer Weight Stop guessing your deer's weight. This useful chart will help you determine your deer's estimated live weight, field dressed weight and edible meat weight. Here are some examples of how weight is distributed.
Live weights are in parenthesis.
Using the above guide as an example, a 180 pd buck would have 16.2 pds of hide, 21.06 pds of bone and 9.0 pds of blood. Information provided by Pennsylvania State University, Department of Animal Science and the PennsylvaniaGame Commission. Questions or Comments about this site should be directed to the Webmaster . This site is privately owned and not related to the PA Game Commission.