Another nontypical whitetail made it to the top of the Boone and Crockett Club world record book. Brian Butcher harvested this Kansas deer on a property he’d been hunting for 13 years. In April 2019, Butcher captured the buck on a trail camera. That fall, Butcher was hunting in a treestand on the edge of a Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) field and released an arrow when the buck was standing 25 yards away. He scored 321-3/8 B&C points and is the biggest whitetail on record in Kansas and the fourth largest nontypical in the world.

Eight other typical and nontypical whitetails were recently added to the record books, including the No. 3 nontypical, the Brewster Buck. This deer is said to be the biggest free-ranging buck ever killed by a hunter (animals killed by cars, etc. can also be entered in the Boone and Crockett records). Boone & Crockett records have been around for almost 200 years, yet more than 20% of the biggest bucks ever recorded were submitted in the last seven years. 

The Club’s newly published Records of North American Big Game, 15th Edition, contains submissions accepted from 2017 through 2021, including over 4,500 new entries across 38 categories of North American big game. Along with detailed, tabular trophy listings including harvest locations (down to county level), it features hundreds of field photos, score sheets and insightful chapters. It’s available in paperback, a hardback collector’s set with slipcase, and a deluxe limited edition.

Visit www.boone-crockett.org to purchase or learn more.