Jeff Ovington

Yep, here in British Columbia lots of oldtimers passed racks down that have never been scored.Don't know if any will make world records, but there is lots and lots that will really put British Columbia on the map in the Boone and Crocket as this Province being one of the best places to get trophy bucks.My Uncle has a pic of a 44" wide buck he shot in Princeton back in the mid 50' early 60's, it hung on his shed for years.He threw it in the dump in the 70's when he sold his house. He has shot a pile of monster size racks, but those where the years that the legal number of bucks to be harvested was much much more liberal, and he lived in a town that was in the middle of one of the biggest deer and elk migration routes in British Columbia and the season lasted forever.Everbody who lived their got them.By the time I started hunting that area, the season closed by November 7 that was in the 80's.They hung them outside on their sheds to
waste away nobody thought otherwise, cause they plowed down through that town like cattle.Today it's different, it's tightly regulated and bucks just
aren't that common to see like they used to be. They still get big ones there but it's not like ut used to be.But you go to that town and knock on doors
everybodys got them and the old school hunters are not intersested in scoring them but the are more than willing to show you and tell their stories.He laughed when Kirk Darner published that book of his and this was before Kirk got a lifetime ban on hunting and owning firearms.He told me than that guy was nothing more than poacher. His reasoning, you know when enough mounting is enough and you start throwing and he was right, Kirk lost alot and rightly so.He told me back than it had nothing to do with hunting technique or skill. My uncles success had everything to do with lots and lots of big antlered animals migrating to the wintering grounds and the
numbers of deer you were alowed to kill and a very very long season to kill them in.