ORIGINAL: Cornelius08
"I do notice that the bucks Matt and friend are showing beat all those from Corny's warm memories, and that scene Matt is sharing is being repeated all over the commonwealth in the last couple seasons. "
Its but one deer, although a good one. And while thats your opinion, the biggest of those I pictured probably scores about the same. Its about 4" narrower, and a point or two less,but has about twice the mass with 5.5" bases and 6" brow tines, and probably a bit longer beam length since the rack curves all the way around.... But hey whatever floats your boat. Matts buck is a damn-fine one for sure. I could just as easily post picks from bucks others have killed far bigger than both mine and his. Wasnt my point in posting. Point was you called me out and you got your nose busted figuratively. (LOL) You said there was no bucks except spikesbeing killed blah blah blah in the 70's and I was drinking bong water for saying otherwise. Only reasonI posted a few of the others was to show you werent talking to some inexperienced non-deer finding nimrod such as yourself. As for big bucks, big bucks were taken before and since the deer plan. And no one photo or one dozen is gonna change that fact. In many areas of the state, there are simply FEWER now.
Even though, usually those who run there mouth the most prove things the least. I dont see your large array of "trophies" being posted very quickly. (LOL) At this point Id be very surprised to see a pic of a road-killed weasel from you.
Just a couple stats on those 2 bucks.....Franks has 6" bases and scores 142 4/8" with only an 11" inside spread. Frank kept the jawbone from his buck but we haven't had anything "Officially" done with it to verify age, best guess is 6 1/2.
Mine gets there differently with 20 7/8" Inside spread and 13 points w/ 4 1/4" bases and a gross score of 149 5/8"...had he not broken off his left G2 running away he'd gross right about 155".
In my haste I didn't check the tooth wear on mine but it's obvious that he's AT LEAST a 3 1/2yr old buck more likely 4 1/2 or maybe older.
Both are the largest bucks either of us have ever seen on the hoof in the high pressured areas that we hunt and we took them 3 days apart. I hope to just SEE bucks of that caliber in Illinois each year.
These are also 2 bucks that didn't make it to the last scoring session.