News article 202 1/8 typical Ohio buck
Sky’s the limit for recently felled buck
Pending drying-period wait, rack could top out in big way
Sunday, November 28, 2004
Dave Golowenski
FOR THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Should the weather not turn disastrous, more than 100,000 Ohio deer large and small, antlered and smooth-pated will fall to a horde of hunters, most armed with guns, in the coming week.
None of those deer, whatever their bodily dimension, is likely to come as well-equipped as the one taken Nov. 8 by Brad Jerman in Warren County. Such a deer comes along once in a generation or so.
After seeing it the night before, Jerman, 39, of Springboro, a burg south of Dayton, killed the 10-pointer at first light with a crossbow at about 18 yards on private land. When he checked the 300-pound deer at a tagging station, Jerman was advised the antlers might be in a class by themselves.
Measured by Gary Trent, president of the Buckeye Big Buck Club and a Boone and Crockett Club scorer, the whitetail’s symmetrical rack unofficially scored 202 1/8 inches, surpassing a 201 1/8-inch Clark County buck taken in 1986 with a longbow by William D. Kontras of Springfield.
The world-record typical buck, felled in 1993 by British Columbian Milo Hanson, measures 213 5/8.
Until a year ago, the acclaimed world-record non-typical rack, which measures 304 6/8, was an Ohio specimen taken in Greene County with a longbow in 2000 by Mike Beatty of Xenia. Thus, the largest two typicals and the largest non-typical antlers taken by hunters in Ohio have come from adjacent southwestern Ohio counties.
After a 60-day drying period, Jerman’s antlers will be rescored for the record books. Expect that event in January.