My thermals would be rising. Whitney Reeds Oklahoma HammerScore: 166 inchesDate of Kill: Nov. 23, 2021Location: Garvin County, Okla.Weapon: CVA Cascade in .308 Winchester. His father passed away in October. Its called a panel scoring, Haseley said. They talked a lot, and hunting was a common topic. We know that theres plenty of deer season left to hunt, and we cant wait to see how it plays out. Most based their decision on where they thought theyd have the best chance at Mufasa. Another would-be state record, this one was passed all over as a legitimate harvest when it was shot by Christopher Kiernan in 2009.
10 Giant Bucks from the 2021-2022 Deer Season This is an all-time, great deer, said Jeff Brown, president of the Northeast Big Buck Club, which is based in Paxton, Mass. When he got to the tract where he built the ground blind, he pulled the card from the camera and to his delight saw several pictures of Split G4 just before dawn working the mock scrape. They brought flashlights, followed the blood trail and located the downed buck a short distance away. So was Lefty. He was inundated with interview requestsand the usual jealous cries of foul play. Russell is a 25-year-old who prefers to hunt whitetails in the big woods of the Adirondacks the old fashioned way: by stalking them. I knew it was a large buck from its body shape, but I couldnt see its rack well because it was getting dark in the canopy of big trees around me., I could see the deer fine, and had an open window to its chest and vitals at 50 yards, he says. Whitney Reed and her husband, Cody, spend a lot of time hunting big Oklahoma bucks. It was a 45-yard shot. When 15-year-old Tony Lovstuen pulled the trigger of his muzzleloader on the afternoon of Sept. 29, 2003, he ended the reign of a buck that already was world famous. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. Id never shot a deer from that distance, and I was worried that maybe Id just wounded him. The Illinois Roadkill Buck Murphy's Art But Plesss uncle, Glenn Pless, knowing Pless was into hunting, gave him the mount of his grandfathers 11-point buck, a certificate from the New York Big Buck Club recognizing it (it scored 154 7/8) and his grandfathers 12-gauge shotgun.
5 Biggest Whitetail Bucks Found (Not Killed) Here are the top record whitetail bucks taken in New York, by category, as recorded by the New York State Big Buck Club. I was so excited. I had to take the shot sitting down, he saysthe one thing he hadnt practiced. I took him to a taxidermist and he has 15 scoreable points and grosses at 161 3/8" and net 151 4/8 with deductions, but I have to wait 60 day for an official score.". The farm seems different now. Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Service. Don Haseley, of Sanborn, was the official scorer who measured the antlers on Plesss deer. He was hunting an area mixed with crops, hardwoods and thick cover. You know the joke about the tourist who asks the New Yorker how to get to Carnegie Hall, right? In July, Lee found a track that looked like Leftys. Was using Maxima SD arrows and Muzzy MX-3 fixed broadheads. Pless told her come on back, and hed wave to them from afar. He was in that tall grass and I knew he was close, but I just couldnt see him., The deer finally appeared just 10 yards away. He went to the mock scrape I set up earlier in the fall and started pawing the ground, Martinson said. In Nov. 2019 a giant buck with a split G4 appeared on one his trail cameras. And we knew he was still around, hed not yet left the property.. He used briars and small cedar trees as cover as he went. Published Dec 13, 2021 5:31 PM EST. I didnt do anything special to take such a remarkable deer, I feel truly fortunate to have been able to watch that buck grow on our farm, and to be able to harvest it. Read the full story here. He finished the season with 11 encounters, but passed the buck each time in hopes of it living another year. Either way, Pless will receive several plaques and certificates for his deer.
Biggest Buck Ever Shot! - North American Whitetail and recieve our upcoming newsletters and other site info. Brewster had to stifle his yells, trying not to ruin anyone elses sit. Once there, they followed blood and found the deer in a logging road about 75 yards into the tracking job.
Sunday is gonna be good. The deer ran 40 yards and expired. He has six other deer to his credit, all does, with bow and firearms. Moments later, Clark squeezed the trigger on his 7mm Magnum rifle, and the biggest buck taken in North Carolina during the 2021-22 season was on the ground. His body was big too; he field dressed around 230 pounds, and it took me and four buddies to drag him out. Read the full story here. Cookie Settings/Do Not Sell My Personal Information. After a while, he looked for the deer and recovered his buck. A few minutes later, his friend, David, who was also in the tree, said he heard something in the bottom. After 38 years of hunting, the dreams of a Booner finally came true, Jared said. This deer had a track that was undeniable. Check out these 10 monster bucks that were taken throughout the country. Id known of this buck, but he was like Houdini because hed be around awhile, then would just disappear, says Russell. Herbert returned to the woods and settled into his ground blind at about 1:30 p.m. Just then, one of the three does that the buck was scent-checking kicked him, and he gave up and began making his way back to the first doe. Plesss taxidermist, Tim Young, told him to prepare for a lot of attention, but it wasnt until Boone & Crockett measurer Don Haseley did a green score that Pless had any inkling that his buck might be more than a personal best. My children are also excited.
Nebraska State Record: 203 4/8-inch Typical Monster Subscribe to OL+ for our best feature stories and photography. He was bowhunting from the ground with some natural brush around him. Shelton Buck. He weighed 235 pounds (field dressed), and New England is known for hunters who classify a trophy not by the antler size, but the dressed weight. It took a while, but they started to figure things out. Its still sinking in, he said. His pregnant wife came back early from running errands at halftime. All Rights Reserved, and recieve our upcoming newsletters and other site info.. Hes taken plenty of deer bowhunting this way, including one of two bears in recent years. The crowds attracted a game warden, who checked everything out and offered his congratulations. C.J. The C.W.
New York's Record Whitetail Bucks Stats: 2 bucks, including a 10-point piebald. And then theres the deer itself. Rhine steadied her rifle and then made what felt like a good shot. He would have been the first person I told. But it felt like forever. This old phantom buck would show up on trail cameras, but was never seen on hoof. Then the woods fell silent and I knew he crashed.. He was hot on one doe, but turned to pursue another. He got only a couple of photos in 2019, but in 2020 the deer showed up more frequently on the 50-acre farm. About an hour into the afternoon hunt, a doe appeared about 100 yards away and walked down through the finger of trees. Read more about this story. His summer and winter ranges didnt change much. I took a shot with my bow and nailed a heart shot, He staggered 10 yards to the left and i had time to knock another arrow and land another heart shot from the opposite side and he piled up about 30 yards.". Right at last light, after several minutes of silence, a big buck eased out into a clearing 40 yards away. No one loves a good deer hunting story more than us, and thats why Outdoor Life dedicates much of our fall to covering the best, craziest, and strangest stories about whitetail deer that we can find. They followed blood about 150 yards to the downed buck. Reinforcements soon arrived in the form of friends Kevin Austin, Scott Pipiles, his brother Jason Pless and his nephew Connor Pless. The buck was killed Nov. 11 during rifle season and is one of the largest 10-pointers ever. Brewster Shoots the Biggest Whitetail Buck Ever It required a few tries to find the tree, but eventually Brewster located a maintained hang-on stand, tucked into the thick limbs of an old. Larry Moroz, who lives in Varyburg, shot this. Whitney Reed's Oklahoma Hammer Score: 166 inches Date of Kill: Nov. 23, 2021 Location: Garvin County, Okla. It ran about 50 yards and expired in the middle of the open field.While the buck scored 166 inches, it was the character that impressed her and others so much. It worked, Lee said. In 2017, he came within inches of getting to send it. Its not something I ever dreamed would happen.. This deer is dedicated to Grants fight with AA, and I told him Id call him the minute I arrowed the buck.. He passed away the week before, and this was the first time I went hunting after his passing., Jake Murdaughs Oklahoma MonsterScore: 194 inchesDate of Kill: Nov. 28, 2021Location: Pittsburg County, Okla.Weapon: .308 Winchester. Stay tuned to F&S.com for more big buck coverage, like this 225-inch Indiana giant, these late-season bruisers, and the biggest bucks of 2020. Justin and Wagoner were trotting down the embankment, whooping. Cookie Settings/Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Last year, we thought he was a really great deer, but this year, hes a world-class 8-pointer. I really thought it was one of the 8-point bucks, and Im sure the deer knew I was there when I shot, he says. They like going to see all the mounts and Daddys deer at the taxidermist, he said. It was a special deer. Hed been monitoring the deer since May. The current record for the largest typical rack belongs to a deer shot in Saskatchewan, Canada by Milo N. Hanson in 1993. 2 all-time Boone & Crockett whitetail behind only Milo Hansons buck.
Hunters bag enormous bucks in Pennsylvania's rifle season for deer Im excited to get it. 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. At the base of a tree, he discovered a 13-inch split drop tine. And Pless wasnt the only whitetail hunter to arrow state-record buck in New York last season. I killed him in the mock scrape I created., The deer ran 30 yards and tipped over. A happy Aidyn Miller shot this impressive buck on Nov. 11 in the town of Troupsburg in Steuben County on Nov. 11 with a crossbow. He made the most of the opportunity with a perfect bow shot. And this 20-point whitetail, nicknamed Houdini, is certainly among the biggest to come from New York this season. He was prepared to wait it out until dark in hopes of a chance at Split G4.
The Biggest Whitetail Bucks of 2022 | Outdoor Life I absolutely worked my tail off to get an opportunity at this buck. As he stretched to lick a branch, Brewster drew. This deer is special because 8-pointers typically dont get to this level. I just had a gut feeling it was Split G4, says Herbert. I shot him Nov. 6th in Livingston County. Doug Williams was hunting a patch of public Illinois timber with his grandson and his grandsons friend when this stud stepped out. Then he got busy. (Jeff Phillips photo) January 10, 2019 By Lynn Burkhead. The bucks antlers and body were much larger than I anticipated.. Emily Stauring, of Arkport, N.Y., had a great opening day, shooting this 11-point buck in Steuben County. Im really humbled by the whole experience, and feel blessed and honored I just happened to be the bowhunter who took such an incredible animal, Overholt says. He built a target stand and used spray paint to mark off yardage on his practice range. Clark's huge buck carried 23. My two boys were familiar with the buck, as they go through pictures with me. Subscribe to OL+ for our best feature stories and photography. During the offseason, he used HuntStand to find and mark numerous stand locations to target this deer. Hunting Russell killed a great 20-point buck in the Adirondack mountainsa notoriously difficult place to hunt. Then, later in the season, he finally crossed paths with the deer one last time. They were deciding where the trophy mount of the big buck that Pless shot Nov. 8 with his bow on private land in Niagara County would go. Experts determined that the buck died of natural causes and demolished the score of the previous record, 286 inches from a buck in Texas.
25 biggest Upstate NY bucks killed by deer hunters in 2018 (reader On the walk back, Brewster realized he neednt have tried to keep quiet. It wasnt far. Greta Yira Some giant bucks fly under. Pless first spotted the deer on his trail cameras four years ago. Gulf War Vet Smashes New York State Whitetail Record with 214-Inch Monster Buck Phillip Pless took this huge non-typical whitetail in Niagara County, New York, on November 8th. He settled in for the afternoon sit and waited for deer movement. Russell believed it was one of the smaller-racked bucks he knew were in the area. And he was this time., My emotions were not what I had thought they would be in this moment, Lee continued. They knew the buck was big but didn't realize how big until they got to town later that afternoon where it weighed in at 307. About 115 yards away, the big whitetail had just followed a doe to the grassy edge of the cornfield. The buck disappeared back into the woods, but the doe he was following stayed in the field, he recalls. The buck appears at this point to have the highest score for a non-typical rack of any buck taken with any hunting instrument (bow, firearm) in the Northeast this past fall. Randy Demauro shot this 11-point buck in Munnsville, N.Y. in Madison County with his Remington 7400 semiautomatic 30-06. Much to his surprise, he turned, and there stood Lefty about 70 yards away. After a slow morning sit on November 2, Brewster and the guys grabbed breakfast in town and chose stands for the afternoon. Sitting in his treestand, Pless said he didnt dare try and stand up. It was a 25-yard shot, she said, adding it had a "Trophy Tape" score of 152 1/4 inches. I knew it was a large buck from its body shape, but I couldnt see its rack well because it was getting dark in the canopy of big trees around me.. Both Big Buck clubs have banquets scheduled for later this year, which may or may not be happening because of the coronavirus. Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Service. His late grandfather started JJ Ranch in 1961, but passed in 2009, and its been worked by the family ever since.