Stephen Tucker was hunting his family’s Tennessee farm in November 2019. It was muzzleloader season, and when the biggest buck he’d ever seen stepped out at 30 yards, his muzzleloader failed to fire. Luckily, he got a second shot at the 47-pointer later in the season. 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.

Eight other whitetails recently joined the Boone and Crockett world-record rankings, including the Brewster Buck, Kyress Buck and the Butcher Buck. The Boone and Crockett records go back 194 years, yet more than 20% of the biggest bucks ever harvested were added in just the last seven years. All of the world-record animals, including the nine latest additions, can be found in Boone and Crockett Club’s newly published Records of North American Big Game, 15th Edition. New editions are printed every six years. The 15th Edition adds trophies accepted 2017 through 2021, including more than 4,500 new entries across 38 categories of North American big game.