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A hunter in Tennessee took down a monstrous and perhaps record-breaking 47-point buck.
Stephen Tucker, 26, shot the deer while muzzleloader hunting in Sumner County, Tenn. The deer’s antlers totaled more than 300 inches in length, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) said.
Dale Grandstaff, a captain with the TWRA measured the animal by using the Boone & Crockett Club requirements for non-typical racks, WWMT.com writes.
The buck earned a “green score” of 313 2/8 inches, but after necessary reductions as declared by Boone & Crockett, it finished with a net score of 308 3/8 inches.
WWMT notes that the state record (from the same county) is 244 3/8 inches. The larger record for free-ranging white-tailed buck harvested by a hunter with a muzzleloader is an animal whose antlers measured 307 5/8 inches, from 2003 in Iowa.
The same report notes that due to a 60-day “drying period,” the antlers could shrink beneath the world record status.
The antlers from Tucker’s deer will be measured in January.
“That is something you just don’t ever expect to measure as a certified scorer,” Grandstaff said, according to WWMT.
If Grandstaff’s measurements are acceptable, the antlers will be measured again in spring 2019 during a Boone & Crockett banquet. Scorers will then decide if the January measurements will hold up, WWMT concludes.
that's pretty crazy
Stephen Tucker, 26, shot the deer while muzzleloader hunting in Sumner County, Tenn. The deer’s antlers totaled more than 300 inches in length, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) said.
Dale Grandstaff, a captain with the TWRA measured the animal by using the Boone & Crockett Club requirements for non-typical racks, WWMT.com writes.
The buck earned a “green score” of 313 2/8 inches, but after necessary reductions as declared by Boone & Crockett, it finished with a net score of 308 3/8 inches.
WWMT notes that the state record (from the same county) is 244 3/8 inches. The larger record for free-ranging white-tailed buck harvested by a hunter with a muzzleloader is an animal whose antlers measured 307 5/8 inches, from 2003 in Iowa.
The same report notes that due to a 60-day “drying period,” the antlers could shrink beneath the world record status.
The antlers from Tucker’s deer will be measured in January.
“That is something you just don’t ever expect to measure as a certified scorer,” Grandstaff said, according to WWMT.
If Grandstaff’s measurements are acceptable, the antlers will be measured again in spring 2019 during a Boone & Crockett banquet. Scorers will then decide if the January measurements will hold up, WWMT concludes.
that's pretty crazy
