180"s ?

If this were true, it would be the new, current world record as B&C allows entry of found dead bucks as long as the skull plate is intact etc.

Well now that's cool......I have no idea what condition it was in though....

I on the other hand think the best thing to do is just take a couple pictures, not let anyone measure it, saw the horns off and screw them to a plaque for the den.

Rob, I think we've told you the story, but... when Matt was here, we made our ritualistic stop at the convenience store on the way home from one of the farms we hunt. We pulled up behind a late-model Chevy and spotted tines sticking up inside the cab.

"Look at that," Matt said... "Looks like a nice one."

We walk on inside to grab some stuff to munch on for the ride home, and I overhear a couple camo-clad guys sitting at one of the tables talking about deer; I ask him if that's his truck, and if he would mind if we just peeked in the window as we'd noticed the nice rack when pulling up behind it. He proceeds to get up and tell us that he'd just show it to us... We follow him to his truck and he unlocks the door, reaches in and pulls out the most massive rack either Matt or me has ever seen in person. It wasn't that he was that massive... though he did carry nice mass. What he was though was possessing some of the tallest tines we'd ever seen on a beautiful typical frame.

We asked him what he scored, and I think he said he was 204... gross.Netted in the 180s... Something crazy like 16-17" tines all the way around -- except he was missing a matching G4 or something like that. Almost no deductions other than that.

Now think about that... if he'd had grown that one tine -- add another 16" to that score on a typical frame, and we'd have been staring at the next world record right then. The really cool thing? I see that guy there every single night that his girlfriend works there... 60-70 times a year. We know he's hunting close to there ... and that means he'shunting close to where we're hunting.

Greg she may just be really hot and he drivesa long way!!

There places in Ohio that have not been hunted in long time. Who knows what is wandering down there

Huntemup had the new world record in front of him, but didn't shoot because he forgot his camera.

I do believe the world record is walking around out there somewhere. A friend of mine has replica antlers from the Kansas King Sheds found a few years back. They scored 217 inches if both sides matched. One side had been chewed on a bit.

IL. is definitely a possibility, but I think IA, and KS are both on the way up. If they are not producing as many Big Bucks as IL. right now it's only because of lesser hunter #'s I enjoy hunting my home state of IL. but my access to landhas dwindled drastically. I won't complain about Outfitters because that's a sign of the times and you can not blame farmers for making what money they can off of there land. I've got one spot that is better than it used to be and another that is not nearly as good as it was a few years ago. It is bordered on 3 sides by outfitters and I know there are a lot of 125" to 135" bucks taken there every season. Where used to there would be only 3 or 4 taken. I believe the extra Buck Harvest is beginning to show.

There are a ton of does though.

Dan

MI buck to boot[&:]

i think it will plus atleast 4 new users repost some older big bucks they find on the computer or get texted or emailed lol