Amaze Your Friends with These Deer Hunting Facts

This weekend, Minnesota woods will be flooded with hunters. As you sit around to strategize Friday night (okay, I mean drink), you can amaze everyone with these deer hunting related facts.

Courtesy of the Minnesota DNR, here they are, and please don't turn this into a drinking game:

Adult female white-tailed deer weigh about 145 lbs., and males weigh about 170 lbs.
The biggest white-tailed deer recorded in Minnesota was a 500-pound buck.
A whitetail’s home range is about 1 square mile.
There are nearly 500,000 firearms deer hunters in Minnesota.
Last year, 30 percent of Minnesota firearm hunters successfully harvested a deer. About 63 percent were antlered bucks.
70 percent of Minnesota’s firearms deer harvest typically occurs during the first three or four days of the season.
The average hunter spends five days afield during Minnesota’s firearms deer season.
The largest typical whitetail buck taken in Minnesota had a Boone & Crockett score of 202, shot by John Breen in 1918 near Funkley.
Minnesota’s No. 1 nontypical whitetail buck had 43 points, shot by 17-year-old Mitch Vakoch in 1974.

Have a safe a successful hunt and make sure to share you pictures and stories with us.