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.
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The Real Reasons Why the King Buck Isn’t #1
The author that ignited the King Buck controversy weighs in on Boone & Crockett’s final ruling that the buck is not a world record.
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.
Record Bucks and Boycott: Five Biggest Deer Hunting Stories of the Year
Big bucks, technological advances and the occasional controversy topped the year of whitetail deer hunting for 2013. Records fell, with more awaiting scoring. Big bucks continue to be reported throughout the states with seasons still open, too. It was also a big year for DeerandDeerHunting.com, including our Johnny King Buck coverage and the addition of […]
Biggest Buck Ever Shot Wasn’t Easy Call: NBBC
Almost 11 years have passed since Johnny King, of Mt. Horeb, Wis., killed a monstrous white-tailed deer now known by many in the hunting world as “The King Buck.” The massive buck — that caused some antler-scoring groups to change the way they officially scored whitetails — is still recognized by the Northeast Big Buck […]
King Buck Dethrones Hanson Buck as New #1 in NBBC
The Johnny King buck is the biggest typical whitetail of all time, according the Northeast Big Buck Club, a group that uses the same measuring system as the prestigious Boone and Crockett Club, except that NBBC does not use “net” scores in its final tallies. In a move that could forever change how white-tailed deer […]
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 […]
Should the King Buck Be A World Record? Ousted B&C Scorer Says ‘Yes!’ on Deer Talk Now
Ron Boucher, an official scorer for Boone and Crockett Club for 25 years, will be the special guest on Deer Talk Now today (Wednesday, Sept. 12), and will discuss the potential world record Johnny King Buck, the Boone and Crockett scoring system for prior whitetail records, and much more. How much more? How about exclusive […]
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 […]