3/22/2023 0 Comments Booku buckes![]() ![]() Because just two days before Christmas on Dec. (Photo by Lynn Burkhead) Last-Minute Christmas Giftīut as you might suspect, that's not the only last-second giant whitetail entry into the record books either. Look through the record books and you'll find ample reason to keep bundling up, heading to a cold wintertime deer stand, and punch the clock to the end of the season. Not bad for an Oklahoma giant that fell in the final week of the season. And until Oklahoma State college student Guner Womack’s 188 5/8-inch state archery record buck in the fall of 2019, the Ward buck was the Sooner State’s archery state-record typical whitetail. If you're keeping score at home, that's currently the sixth biggest typical buck ever recorded in the ODWC's Cy Curtis Awards program. Because he did, the crossbow hunter arrowed a net 188 4/8-inch typical buck in Rogers County on one of the season's last-gasp hunts. Ward is glad he kept pushing on and persevering until the end. 15 archery season closure was only a few days away. 11, 2011 when Claremore, Okla., resident Wade Ward convinced himself to keep hunting even though the Sooner State's Jan. 38 in the current B&C record book.įurther to the north, another late season giant fell on Jan. 1 typical whitetail in Texas history, as well as No. Read More: Late-Innings Whitetails - How to Rally for a Southern Giant.What's more, longtime B&C measurer, antler collector, and author John Stein reports in his Big Rack IV: Texas Whitetail Record Book that the buck-which was shot at a distance of 50 yards as it trailed behind a doe-has incredible main beam lengths of 28 6/8 and 27 5/8 inches, respectively, and an equally impressive inside spread measurement of 24 2/8. That bruiser, McCulloch's second good buck of the day as he worked on filling his deer tags that year, gross-scored 211 3/8 inches and net-scored 196 4/8. That's when Tom McCulloch went hunting on a Maverick County ranch in the South Texas brush country and downed the largest typical buck ever taken in the Lone Star State. Want proof of that statement? Well, one of the more famous examples is a true-blue Texas monster buck taken back in December 1963. (Courtesy of Julie Tripp, Boone and Crockett) Late-Season Monster Deer (Photo by Lynn Burkhead) Look for Trends, Hotspotsīut aside from looking at books, databases, photos, score sheets and reading the stories of fortunate hunters who have tagged the biggest and best bucks down through the years, is there any other practical value from being a record-book enthusiast?īook cover of the new sixth edition of Boone and Crockett Club’s Records of North American Whitetail Deer. The deer was featured in a North American Whitetail story and ranks highly in the Boone and Crockett Club record book. 29, 2007 buck, taken in Alberta, Canada, by hunter Helgie Eymundson on a bitterly cold morning with temperatures well below zero and snow on the ground, had 38 points, a gross score of 288 inches, and a net score of 282 inches. Sometimes, the best record book bucks are taken when the weather is at its wintertime worst and deer are focusing on late-season food sources. If books aren't your thing, there's also fee-based online databases with B&C and P&Y, as well as free online state-level databases from sites like the Texas Big Game Awards Program, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation's Cy Curtis Awards Program, the Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks Magnolia Records Program, or Ohio DNR's Big Buck Club to name a few. There are also numerous color photographs, state maps showing which counties are producing the most record book deer, and an included full-sized, full-color wall poster that shows distribution of entries. ![]() With more than 17,000 whitetail deer listings, this new volume features the usual B&C scores, location of kill, date of the hunt, hunter, owner, state/provincial rank, and all-time rank. That's the new sixth edition of the Boone and Crockett Club’s Records of North American Whitetail Deer, which is printed and due out any day now as Christmas Day approaches on the calendar. In fact, I'm so much of an antler geek, that if the big fella in the red suit is looking for a great Christmas gift idea for me this year, I've got a great suggestion. Maybe that's why over the years I've gone through the training process to become an official measurer with Boone and Crockett, Pope and Young, and the Texas Big Game Awards program. I love seeing big antlers, hearing the stories, and looking at the final numbers that end up in the various deer hunting record books out there.
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