Sadly, one of the world’s greatest whitetails has been denied a chance to be recognized as a potential world record by Boone and Crockett.
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He Invented the Antler Scoring System
The buck of your dreams is in your sights. His symmetrical 12-point rack is tall and wide. Later that night back at camp, when trying to quantify just how big that buck was, you stutter, “He was a Booner!” Here’s a fun fact for you: If the man who invented that scoring system was given […]
Boone and Crockett Club Celebrates Centennial of National Collection of Heads and Horns
When the National Collection of Heads and Horns was dedicated in 1922, William T. Hornaday believed these species would become extinct — he was wrong.
Opinion: King Buck Got Hosed
OPINION BLOG by Daniel E. Schmidt Make no mistake about: The Johnny King Buck got hosed by the Boone and Crockett Club in the panel-scoring of his deer this past Saturday in Montana. It’s time to call spades spades and let the deer hunting community know this was essentially a dog-and-pony show. By amending their […]
Predicting the King Buck’s Final Score
by Daniel E. Schmidt The Johnny King Buck is set to be panel scored in Montana tomorrow by the Boone and Crockett Club. What will the panel decide? If you’ve followed this story as closely as we have here at Deer & Deer Hunting, the final score — and the integrity of the process […]
King Buck Lands in Montana for B&C Panel Scoring Session
Buckle your seat belts, folks, the King Buck has landed in Montana for what could be a historic moment in deer hunting history tomorrow. After six long years of waiting, the massive 6-by-6 from Grant County, Wis., will be panel-scored by the Boone and Crockett Club to see if it will unseat the Milo Hanson […]
Have You Seen This Incredible Johnny King Buck Video?
If you’ve been keeping up with the Johnny King Buck saga, no doubt you know about the amazing Wisconsin buck and how Boone and Crockett will be officially scoring the deer’s monstrous rack on Sept. 22 in Montana. What you might have missed, however, is the Deer Talk Now webcast on Wednesday that featured ousted […]
Boone and Crockett: Panel Will Determine King Buck’s Final Score
by Daniel E. Schmidt In a statement released today on its website, the Boone and Crockett Club confirmed that the potential world record Johnny King Buck will be panel-scored in Montana later this month. This deer, which might be the biggest buck ever killed, was shot six years ago in Grant County, Wisconsin. In the […]
We Tip Our Hats to Boone and Crockett
“It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Daniel E. Schmidt No truer words have ever been spoken. In the wake of tonight’s landmark news that will most likely forever change the annals of deer hunting history, the Boone and […]
Big Bucks: Boone and Crockett Will Score King Buck as Potential New World Record Whitetail
BREAKING NEWS! Deer and Deer Hunting learned today that the 12-point Johnny King Buck will be called to a special scoring session by the Boone and Crockett Club to determine if the rack is indeed the biggest typical-antlered whitetail ever killed by a North American hunter. If it is, it will unseat the Milo […]