teamster284

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.

nubo

Need I say more .

nubo

extreme1

Just want to make it clear it was a "Saskatchewan hunter"

Antler Eater

I take it the guy writing the article wasn't a bow hunter...

nubo

that is correct Extreme1,i met Milo in person at the hunting show that following fall and seen the mount up close .This is one very serious buck ,I have a book here autographed by Milo himself if you'd like to read it ,I'll send it to you if you promise to return it . Also Milo is a big man his hand made 2 of mine ,and one heck of a nice guy we got to chat for 15 minute's before it started to get busy,His display was the highlight of the show ,I don't know if he ever got a minute to himself .I'm sure he was getting tired of all the same old question's .I guess that's the price of fame though.

nubo