Big Animal pictures

Hang them on a Quality Scale

Or on top of a certified Scale

Why is it so prevalent to quote a weight and stick to that Guess while never weighing the animal

..... ie 40 lb coon etc.
200 lb doe etc...

Just a beef of mine... rant simmering

Everyone around here claims the coon they saw weighed "at least" 40 #, Insist on it!

Out of hundreds of coons I've caught there was 3 that topped 20, Biggest was 25#, we just don't have large coon here, avg deer is under a hundred, maybe a big one will go 125, but they're all over 200 # in even "experiencd " hunters views....

Same beef here. Guy at work a few weeks ago laughed when I said I have never caught a 30 lb coon in about 35 years of trapping. In his day he caught lots of 30+ lb coon. Yeah okay.

Or the mythical 175 lb field dressed 1.5 year old buck. Weighed quite a few and never more than 130 lb.

I've caught a few beaver that weighed well over 100lbs before I got them to the truck.

Just like fish and the buck that got away.

Or, how about the guy who said, "Back in the day when I remember getting $80 each for mink....."

Then there's the guy who said he caught a snapping turtle that was so big it wouldn't fit in a 50 gallon barrel.

Did you ever notice those really big beaver are the ones caught the farthest from your truck every time?

I just bought 4 of these on amazon. One for me and three as gifts. Can weigh a 3 pound crappie, 30 pound coon or 400 pound buck.

Those tales get old. I caught a dandy crappie or a huge bobcat everybody wants to know how much it weighed. I say "I don't know, big" most of the time. For fish I use the word guess with a weight.

I think most people will be surprised when they start weighing stuff. I don't think the trapper is lying when he calls his 20 pound tom bobcat a 30 pounder, he just never weighed one and that's his guess.

We all know that stuff weights more the farther you have to carry it.

Funny how they gain a pound for every yard from the truck you are, lol.

I dated a girl ones who claimed she weighed 130#s I didn't think of a certified scale

Caught many a 30 pound coon till they hit the scale, only 1 weighed coon ever was over 30 he went 33 , same with 50 pound coyotes LOL, never had one coyote top 40 and only 3 hit that mark

If she's a keeper, you take her word as gospel.

I remember a few years back a well known name in the pest world ( can't remember the guy's name ) was tired of hearing of these stories of giant rats ( common brown rat - Rattus norvegicus ) that were the size of cats or small dogs and weighed supposedly 5-10-15 lbs or more. Biggest known specimens rarely went over 2lbs.

He threw down the gauntlet and offered $1000 or $10000 or something like that for proof as in a carcass over 5lbs to win the money.

No one ever collected the cash.

Hahahaha Good one!

Really Nice!!!

That's what a Good scale is !!!

I weigh everything I catch and record it. I weigh deer too.

One winter our family house cat, a big Tom, got sick and I took it to the vet. They weighed it, etc. He weighed 12 lbs. if I remember correctly. A couple days later I caught a female bobcat, and for whatever reason I weighed it with a fish scale I had. It was 12lbs. If I had to guess it's weight it would of been alot more than that. My eye's deceived me for sure.

Here's a sneaky trick........

I worked at this large place with lots of people. One woman who worked there was HUGE. Everyone wondered how much she weighed but she would never go near a scale or tell how much she weighed.

A bunch of people set her up without her knowing it. One day a group of 5 workers were with her walking through the wharehouse. They purposely stopped on a forklift scale together to supposedly to look at something. Combined weight of all 6 people was noted. Then they came back without the huge woman and weighed without her. She was over 400lbs.

Sneaky , sneaky , sneaky.