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. Frederick Kyress bagged the buck on his farm in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in the late 1950s and kept the antlers in a barn for 40 years. A collector bought them, and they sat in an antique shop for another 20 years. They were bought and sold a few times until they finally found a home at the King of Bucks collection at Johnny Morris’ Wonders of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium in Springfield, Missouri. The buck scored 204-6/8 B&C points and is the sixth largest typical whitetail ever in the Boone and Crockett world-record book. 

Eight other whitetails recently joined the Boone and Crockett world-record rankings, including the Brewster Buck and the Butcher Buck. The Boone and Crockett records go back 194 years, yet more than 20% of the biggest bucks ever were harvested 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.