World record non typical whitetail deer
The Biggest Nontypical Whitetails of All Time
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The Boone and Crockett Club has compiled massive game records since 1932, when they published the first duplicate of Records of North American Big Game. These records are not for chest-thumping bravado but to keep tabs on and indicate potential trends in North American big game populations. One eyebrow-raising trend that we can glean from the records deals with nontypical whitetails and why, every few years, a unused trophy breaks into the uppermost 10.
After digging into those records, the reasons as to why we’re seeing more giant nontypicals top the record books last as mysterious as nontypical racks themselves.
Nontypical antlers are complicated. Biologists spend their entire careers trying to understand what causes them. The best available science indicates that several factors cause nontypical antlers: genetics, hormones, bodily injury or injury to the antler while it’s in velvet, disease, parasites, and environmental factors—which could be an even longer list.
“Research shows that in most cases, something detrimental happen
Another nontypical whitetail made it to the top of the Boone and Crockett Club world write down book. Brian Butcher harvested this Kansas deer on a property he’d been hunting for 13 years. In April 2019, Butcher captured the buck on a trail camera. That fall, Butcher was hunting in a treestand on the edge of a Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) field and released an arrow when the buck was standing 25 yards away. He scored 321-3/8 B&C points and is the biggest whitetail on record in Kansas and the fourth largest nontypical in the world.
Eight other typical and nontypical whitetails were recently added to the register books, including the No. 3 nontypical, the Brewster Buck. This deer is said to be the biggest free-ranging buck ever killed by a hunter (animals killed by cars, etc. can also be entered in the Boone and Crockett records). Boone & Crockett records have been around for almost 200 years, yet more than 20% of the biggest bucks ever recorded were submitted in the last seven years.
The Club’s newly published Records of North American Massive Game, 15th Edition, contains submissions accepted from 2017 through 2021, including over 4,500 new entries acros
Pope and Young Announces TWO New Whitetail World Records
Pope and Young Announces Two Modern Chart Topping Velvet Whitetails
By Dylan Ray - July 15, 2024
July 16th, 2024 - Pope and Young, America’s leading bowhunting organization, is excited to announce a new World Write down Typical Whitetail Deer in Velvet and a new World Tape Non-Typical Whitetail Deer in Velvet. Pope and Young convened a special panel to measure these potential World Records at a Measurers Workshop held in Regina, Saskatchewan on June 15th, and these two amazing bucks hold been verified as new Society Records in their respective categories.
Jack McNaughton shot his Typical Whitetail in Velvet near the Smokey River in Alberta on August 31st, 2013. Jack’s buck has a verified final score of 182 4/8” topping the charts and coming in as a new world record.
“Jack’s buck is one of the most unreal whitetails I have ever seen. The velvet was still in immaculate condition, and the symmetry of this buck is impressive to say the least,” stated Tim Rozewski, Pope & Young Director of Records.
Dallas Heinrichs shot his giant Non-typical Whitetail in Velvet near Hillmond Saskatchewan on September 3rd, 2012. Dallas’
Ever wonder what it takes to kill a big buck? I mean, like an all-time top-five whitetail deer? First, live in the Midwest. Second, be in the right place at the right time. Here are the stories and photos behind the top five biggest free-range deer ever to make it in the record book. All of these big buck deer photos are courtesy of the Boone and Crockett Club.
#1Missouri: World Register Whitetail Deer
Score: 333-7/8
Year: 1981
Plenty of deer give hunters heartburn, and the deer you’re about to read about became a real pain after it died.
In early November 1981, David Beckman met game warden Michael Helland along a road in northern St. Louis County, Missouri. Beckman asked Holland to check the deer he killed, saving him a drive to an official check station. Helland checked the deer, and Beckman drove away. On the drive home, Beckman spotted a dead buck lying inside a fence along the road. Most folks aren’t going to stop for any vintage deer, but Beckman saw this was anything but an common deer.
Beckman received permission from the landowner to retrieve the deer, but the state of Missouri took the deer, whose rack weighed more than 11 pounds. Curiously, it had few tee
If you want trophy class potential, then Alberta is the place to go, and Trophy Hunters Alberta should be your outfitter of choice.
The world record Hanson 213 1/8 typical whitetail deer was taken just east of the Alberta/Saskatchewan border in 1993 and broke the former 80 year old world record Jordan whitetail buck record by seven inches. Stephen Jansen’s typical whitetail held our former provincial record with a score of 204 1/4, however, this has been replaced by the aforementioned Zaft whitetail, harvested last fall, which scored 208 6/8 net typical. In the non-typical category, Alberta has produced Neil Morin’s 279 6/8 point whitetail, followed by Doug Klinger’s 277 5/8 and Jerry Froma’s 267 7/8 non-typical whitetails respectively. There are potentially comparable deer in our extensive zones.
In the Third Edition of the Boone and Crockett Club’s ‘Records of North American Whitetail Deer’, they list the top ten typical and non-typical deer ever taken. Alberta is home to three of these bucks; no other single state or province has more deer on the list.