Whitetail Deer

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Boone and Crockett’s Top Whitetail States: Latest Rankings

For decades, the whitetail record-book map was static. You hunted Iowa, you dreamed of Wisconsin, and you ignored the rest. In our all-time analysis of whitetail record-book entries from 1830 through ...

Tips on Scoring a Whitetail Deer

Measuring a whitetail deer rack accurately requires precision and a basic understanding of the rules, particularly the tricky distinctions between normal and abnormal points and the main beam. Followi...

Lost For 30 Years: New Potential #3 Whitetail and Illinois State Record Entered

By PJ DelHommeA typical whitetail scoring 207-7/8 was stashed in an Illinois basement for 32 years until some electrical work needed to be done. When the electrician saw it, he was shocked!After a lon...

Adventures from the Archives - Roosevelt Luckey’s World’s Record Whitetail

New York 1939 By PJ DelHomme Antlers make people do weird things. In this case, it wasn’t the antlers attached to this World’s Record, but its sheds that caused the problems. In the 1930s, Roosevelt L...

Buffalo County, Wisconsin: Why Do They Grow So Many Record-book Whitetails?

By PJ DelHomme Buffalo County, Wisconsin, has produced more Boone and Crockett Club record-book whitetails than anywhere else. It’s the number one county in the number one state, according to Club rec...

Top Trophy Whitetail States for 2023

Boone and Crockett’s Big Buck State Showdown In 2020, we published Records of North American Whitetail Deer, Sixth Edition. This 700-page whitetail encyclopedia featured 17,000 trophy listings. In add...

Brian Ross: Portrait of an Antler Collector

With 76 entries and counting, Brian Ross has the largest collection of whitetails belonging to any individual in the Boone and Crockett records. By PJ DelHomme Brian Ross started collecting antlers in...

Indiana’s Big Whitetail Buck Revival

In the near future, we will be hearing more about record-book whitetails coming out of Indiana. Have hunters and wildlife managers there found a sweet spot for the state’s herd? By PJ DelHomme In cas...

The Huff Buck: The Inside Story of the Third Biggest Typical Whitetail

While Dustin Huff sat in his treestand in November 2021, all he was hoping to do was kill a deer big enough to beat his personal record of 134 inches.

The Long Lost Whitetail State Record of Pennsylvania

Mature whitetail deer learn to play hide and seek with hunters when they’re alive. This buck mastered the game for decades—even after it died. Today, the the Kyress buck is part of the King of Bucks c...