Craig was fortunate enough to draw a Fort Knox tag and that good fortune landed him his first Boone & Crockett buck - watch the clip below as he talks about his hunt.

If you see something this impressive your first thought is to question it’s validity. I am trying to research more about these sheds - if you have any info drop me a line.

If these are legit… WOW would be a pretty good descriptive word to use.

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Just spotted these on AwesomeAntlers.com and I’ve never seen a more impressive set of Sheds!

Yikes - this is a velvet buck with some obvious problems. This was originally posted over at Prairie State Outdoors site with no other info.

If you know about this buck or have any information to share, drop me a line dan (at) kybowhunter.com

This buck reminds me alot of Troy Wilson’s Buck

As of this posting this is the biggest known typical from the 2007 Kentucky Deer Season.

This buck is very impressive in several different aspects, fist it comes from a county in Eastern Kentucky where there have only been two other typicals entered into the Boone & Crockett book. This will make the third typical entry from that county and the largest typical ever taken in that county.

While scoring at many different regional deer classics we see many 12 pointers, but not many with a true 6×6 configuration. Kelly Ison and myself scored this buck yesterday for Boone & Crockett and the rack had a gross score of 189″ and ended up with a net score of 180 4/8″.

Some quick numbers on this rack -

Main beams are over 25″
Inside spread is alittle over 21″
Mass circumference at the bases are over 5″
Longest tine scores over 10″

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Well, no better way to hear about the hunt than to listen to the hunter himself tell it. For our first Trophy Profile here is Tom Oaks and his buck.

I originally posted this story  back in 2000 - it is still one of my all-time favorite bucks - it has the mass, spread and length that every trophy hunter looks for.

This buck also made the Cover of North American Whitetail.  Congrats again to the deer hunter, Matt Miller.

Here are the details

• Harvested with a Muzzleloader
• Taken in Nov. 2000
• 17 Yard shot
• Greatest spread 26″
• Inside spread 24 1/2″
• Gross green score 187 3/8
• Net Score 180 1/8 B&C

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A local Sprint Tech was dispatched to a cell tower that had lost power - when he showed up this is what he found.

This buck was taken during the 2007 Oklahoma Deer Season and after the 60 day drying period and entry into Boone & Crockett it is the new #1 Typical Buck All-Time for the Sooner State.

Even after a number of deductions the Boyett Buck nets an incredible 191 4/8″ and ranks #104 on the B&C list of top typicals of North America.  The previous state record was taken in 1997 and scored 185 6/8″.

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The Exceptional Swamp King - by Tim Herald

I don’t know what makes turkeys gobble one day but not the next. Obviously the stage of mating, the weather, barometric pressure, etc. all have something to do with how much turkeys gobble, but from one seemingly identical day to the next there can be unexplainable differences in gobbling activity.

Osceolas are notorious for their lack of gobbling, just as Rio’s are famous loudmouths. In my experience, Florida birds do some gobbling on the roost, but after flydown, they aren’t too vocal. As with every rule, there are exceptions. One foggy morning on Dark Hammock Ranch near Okeechobee, Florida, I was fortunate enough to encounter an exceptional Osceola longbeard.

Well before dawn after a fruitless opening day, my dad and I split up to hunt opposite sides of a huge hundred acre pasture. Dad was going to an opening in the woods that bordered the pasture’s north end where he had seen two gobblers and a group of hens the day before, and I was going to the big cypress swamp on the south side. I had close to a mile walk to get to where I wanted to listen, and due to the thick fog I hadn’t found the tree line I was looking for when the sun started coming up. I was very worried because I knew that first light might be my only chance to locate a gobbling bird. Finally I could make out a row of palmettos that had small trees scattered along its length every 50 to 100 yards. Though I still couldn’t see the swamp, I stopped under one of the trees to listen and wait until visibility increased with light. I hadn’t been standing there three minutes when I heard a gobble erupt from somewhere across the palmettos and two hundred yards down the line. I walked parallel with the palmettos until I was almost even with the gobbling tom, and to my surprise discovered a gap in the leafy obstacle big enough to drive a truck through. I crept through the gap and a narrow opening that was fifty yards in width and seemingly endless in length opened up. The cypress swamp that I had been looking for bordered the other side of the clearing, and the gobbler was sounding off regularly from just inside the treeline.

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