The whitetail scored 315-1/8 B&C points and was ranked the fifth biggest nontypical buck ever in the Boone and Crockett Club record books.
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New #6 World-Record Typical Was Hidden Away for Over 60 Years
Sixty years after one of the biggest typical whitetails in the world was harvested, the buck has finally earned its rightful place in the record books.
Insane 39-Pointer is New #3 in Record Book
Nine white-tailed bucks taken by hunters in recent seasons have been officially entered in the record book maintained by the Boone and Crockett Club. Included in the new B&C listings is the new #3 all-time nontypical whitetail from Illinois, the Brewster Buck. It is actually considered to be the biggest buck ever killed by a […]
New World-Record Elk Smashes Previous Record
Boone and Crockett has declared a new world-record Roosevelt’s elk.
#101: WHY THE KING BUCK ISN’T #1 with Johnny King | Deer Talk Now Podcast
We get on the phone with Johnny King to discuss the day he bagged the King Buck almost 20 years ago, what happened during the scoring process, and why the biggest typical ever lost a spot in the record books.
It Nets 215+ Inches, But It’s Not the World Record
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.
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 […]