35lbs of meat, 35lbs of antler

[The Hedgehog]

Big rack, not much meat on the bones. That's a perfect combination. Maryland somewhere..

 

[mtmiller]

Was it shot or did it starve to death?

 

[Bambistew]

It was killed on the farm that borders where I hunt.

 

[smalls]

I didn't know whitetail interbred with greyhounds.

 

[Tom]

I hope you get his dad Bambistew!!

 

[The Hedgehog]

Tom, his dad probably lives in Texas.

 

[Delw]

Thats a huge buck

heres teh link
http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/outdoors/bal-sp.deer30nov30,0,5305162.story

and story

Hunter shatters state buck record
'Stunning' total antler score exceeds 1987 mark by 40 inches
By Candus Thomson
Sun reporter
Originally published November 30, 2006
Last year, Bill Crutchfield Sr. made a run at the big bucks in Maryland's "Diamond Jim" $1 million fishing tournament.

This year, his son got a different kind of big buck - a deer with antlers massive enough to put most chandeliers to shame and obliterate a state record almost two decades old.





"He does the fishing, and I do the hunting," said Bill Crutchfield Jr., as he waited yesterday afternoon for state certification.

With a crowd of camera-phone-toting hunters and Department of Natural Resources officials watching, Crutchfield hauled the carcass from the refrigerator at Hitchcock Taxidermy in Severn for the tale of the tape.

The buck had 13 points on each 25-inch antler. The entire rack spanned slightly more than 21 inches tip to tip. After measuring all the antler tines and space between the prongs, Crutchfield's total score was 268 4/8 inches, breaking the mark set in 1987 of 228 4/8 inches (antlers are measured in 1/8th-inch increments).

"That's stunning. That's a beast," said Paul Peditto, the head of DNR's Wildlife and Heritage Service.

For Crutchfield, Monday afternoon's hunt in southern Charles County was a waiting game that began just minutes after he settled into his tree stand and heard a sound behind him in a marsh.

"I turned around and seen him lay down about 100 yards away," recalled Crutchfield, 39, a Charles County native and a firefighter at the Indian Head Naval Surface Weapons Center. "I seen him shake his head and could see just a bit of his rack. I seen him last year and I knew he was big."

To calm his nerves, he called a hunting buddy, who reminded Crutchfield that he had plenty of daylight left and to take deep breaths.

About an hour passed as the hunter calculated the distance and thought about the shot. Suddenly, about 40 yards behind the big buck, an eight-point buck walked out.

Minutes later, "my deer stood up and it was over like that," said Crutchfield, who after looking at the buck called his friend again to alert him that the state record was in jeopardy.

To gain a spot in the national record books, Crutchfield will have to let the antlers air-dry for 60 days and then submit them for additional measurements to an official of the Boone and Crockett Club, the official record-keeping organization for North American big game.

Because some bucks develop racks that do not have an equal number of tines on each side, the club divides entries into "typical," or symmetrical, and "non-typical."

While the unsymmetrical antlers on Crutchfield's buck will never be mistaken for the world record of 333 7/8 inches, they easily made the 185-inch minimum to be included in the next edition of the Boone and Crockett award book.

Word of Crutchfield's accomplishment attracted a previous record holder, Walt Lachewitz of Gambrills, to Hitchcock's shop, to swap stories and snap pictures.

"Sad? No," said Lachewitz, who in 1998 bagged a white-tailed deer on the Eastern Shore that scored 185 7/8 inches. "I'm happy when someone gets a big one because it doesn't happen often. You could hunt for 10 lifetimes and not see a buck like that."

 

[Woodrow]

Hey Bambistew...maybe MD would be a good swap after all!

 

[Horn Seeker]

Holy Balls! Wow....

The buck my dad killed this year had a tiny little body..it was wild....25 inch mains just like that one too....unfortunately he missing another 120 inches of horn though.....

 

[schmalts]

Freaky webbing on that puppy.. I killed a Mule deer last week that was pretty scrawny too. Made my WT look like a moose

 

[carbonarcher]

That things a freakin bone factory, no wondering it couldn't put any meat on it's bones!

 

[TheTone]

Awesome whiteail. Love the huge typical frame with lots of big extra junk.

 

[noharleyyet]

...heart attack rack.

 

[Horn Seeker]

Could it be? Same county...

 

[Horn Seeker]

After looking more closely...do you think that is it? I dont think this one is big enough....doesn't look massive enough...maybe last year?

Hey, just noticed...it was last year, Jan 9, 06...just before he shed. He put some bone on!

 

[JB]

It was killed on the farm that borders where I hunt.

hard to believe it came out of chithowl.
normally, all you see are dinks

 

[Bambistew]

JB, why don't you post a few pictures of the big deer you've shot over the years. You must have a pile of them by now?

Here's one shot just to the north of my farm last week. Big rack, small body... Related?

 

[MarvB]

Sumnabeotch had to be skinny....all his calories went into growing bone!

 

[JB]

JB, why don't you post a few pictures of the big deer you've shot over the years. You must have a pile of them by now?

all dinks!

 

[noharleyyet]

JB, why don't you post a few pictures of the big deer you've shot over the years. You must have a pile of them by now?

Here's one shot just to the north of my farm last week. Big rack, small body... Related?

...looks like a Webb County, Texas pen deer.