Max Mongrello's awesome 13-point Iowa whitetail taken on Nov. 26 scored 170 7/8 inches. He thinks the chasing is going to begin in earnest this week or next. ROANOKE, W.Va. During the two week West Virginia buck hunting season, Travis Masoner of Morgantown and his daughter were hoping to kill a buck which had developed quite a following in the . There is no official weight listed for the deer, but it looks heavy. ''I didn't know what I had until I walked over to it. Due to the good conditions, he fully expected to see lots of movement. His buck scores more than 30 points higher than the present Long Hunter record buck. He was kind of a local rock star there with people who hunt and people going to and from the resort, Masoner said in an interview for West Virginia Outdoors. Alvey arrived quickly after Joshuas shot. When he's not behind the camera, Mongrello spends his time working to punch his tags on trophy bucks. Date of Kill: Aug. 22, 2021. He'd be in the woods every day if could, but as it is, whenever he's able to get off work, he hunts. | "As soon as I settled in, I notice a big, fresh scrape on the edge of the field in front of me," Rodes said. Hayden started grunting. He turned slowly to check it out and a doe was standing just feet from him. He fell to a well-placed arrow from a compound bow. Cochran has ink in his veins and his super-sleuthing skills via a great network uncovered the truth. In that time, hes tagged four nice Kansas bucks, with the most recent being a main-frame 9-pointer with two additional scoreable points. In mid-November, Alan Hunt encountered a buck in-person for the first time since previously only seeing him on a single trail-cam image in 2018. The little 8 came right to him, but the big 9 was more interested in the doe. A local taxidermist green-scored Haynies buck at 183 3/8. Peter Sutphin of Halifax County, Virginia, and a Virginia Tech graduate considers himself blessed to have harvested the biggest whitetail buck in the countys history. "He came out following a group of four or five does. He decided to creep out the door and position himself behind the picket fence that surrounded the yard just in case Willie appeared. This deer is one of the biggest that I have ever seen and one that could hold the record for a very long time! Give a Gift Robert Faison. I must have grunted at him 15 times before he finally committed. The buck was supposedly killed around Chase City on October 30th on a large tract of land that borders the town limits where hunting is not allowed. Another pair of does showed up around 30 minutes later. Danger 217 2/8"https://youtu.be/Tp7mL4bAzDs3. But it finally cooled off, and the hunter caught the buck making its way from the swamp to a food plot. 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LaRue's Ethan Alexander talks about the Siete's features with Game & Fish's Adam Heggenstaller at SHOT Show 2023 in Las Vegas. Bucky Sargent of Logan, W.Va. with the buck estimated to be around 10 years old killed at the height of the 2022 rut. Hunting for shed antlers can be like searching for a needle in a hay stack, but experienced searchers have ways to narrow down the search. This massive buck became one of deer hunting's biggest urban legends. The majority of these came from Maverick (28), La Salle (24), Webb (23), Dimmit (20) and Kleberg (11) counties. Two bucks were killed by physically-challenged crossbow . There is a good chance that the buck lived in the safety of the town limits for most of its life to get this big. Nevertheless, his record stands as the biggest typical whitetail in history. "My partner would have shot him, but he was on the wrong side of the fence. Settling in around 2 p.m. Haynie used his deer call to perform a sequence of doe bleats followed by some quick buck grunts. The top Virginia buck in Boone and Crockett is a 38-point Buckingham County trophy killed in 1986 by James Shumaker of New Canton. He put his head down, grabbed a few bites of corn and kept moving. . ELD Match, and 175 gr. Nathan Simmons of Browning and Game & Fish's John Taranto take a closer look at both cartridges at SHOT Show 2023 in Las Vegas. | The buck's 11-point rack had a 17-inch spread . Fishing tournament organizers take issue with new DNR rules. The Biggest Whitetail Deer Ever Killed - NOMAD Outdoor Eric Lundgren of Ruger, which now owns Marlin, highlights the features of both rifles with Game & Fish Editorial Director Adam Heggenstaller at SHOT Show 2023 in Las Vegas. The morning hunt didnt produce. Bill Cochran Column: Monster buck has social media talking record When West Virginia biologists examined the buck, they suggested the deer's age to be between 3 1/2 and 4 1/2 . Masoner hunts of a piece of property owned by his dad which sits adjacent to public land off the Roanoke exit. I watched an 8 pt working this scrape . 28 days from their first cycle "Five minutes later," he says, "I see a buck working his way towards a scrape and licking branch 40 yards away. The hunt started with several bucks walking through, ranging from in age from 2 1/2 to 4 1/2 years old. But, given the windy conditions, they debated whether a hunt was even worth the bother. It may not have come from a natural, fenceless, free-range type of deer hunting, but it sure is giant. Dustin Prievo. Just after 2:30 p.m, they headed in. We had both shot piebald bucks on the same night!" "Uncle Kevin was pretty much my outdoors influence," Wallace ways. Twice, she won the Missouri Outdoor Communicator's Buck Rogers Memorial Scholarship. Data also do not include deer taken on out-of-season deer kill permits or those deer hit and killed by vehicles. Bridges answered Milwaukee's run with his own personal 10-0 spurt, but the Bucks outscored the Nets 39-23 in the third, including 18-7 over the final 5:04 after Antetokounmpo went to the bench . According to Snopes.com, a website that looks to settle internet rumors factually, the facts surrounding this story have been unearthed. The distance was a bit long for the dated Knight muzzleloader but Sutphin wasted no time. Experts determined that the buck died of natural causes and demolished the score of the previous record, 286 inches from a buck . At 6:05 a.m., just minutes after legal shooting light, the big deer stepped into view. Josh Honeycutt. However, he had never laid eyes on this bruiser buck until the day he shot it. ELD Match, and 175 gr. Our client hunted this deer for 11 days. At the 22nd Big Game Awards Program in Dallas, Texas, the Boone and Crockett Club Judges' Panel declared Hanson's buck the new world's . It's a spot that holds good deer, but it's very difficult to hunt due to minimal shooting lanes. After running off trespassers who were fishing ponds they weren't supposed to, he settled into his hunting spot located next to the ponds, which were in a cattle field full of native grasses. The buck was killed on public land in McDowell County, which is along the boundary of Virginia's Tazewell County. Proposed changes to hunting and fishing regulations are mild for 2023, Commission finalizes questions for Sportsman's Sectional Meetings in March , which will include the long talked about lowering of the buck limit, The Rush to Green Could Leave Us in the Dark. The standing record for West Virginia bow-killed bucks is 175 6/8. For complete deer season you read Virginia Deer Season 2022-2023. There were sightings on both sides of I-79. John Wallace has dedicated his career to conservation. "They're hammering cut corn and beans," the bowhunter says. On Jan. 13, 2021, official scorers measured the buck at West Virginia Division of Natural Resources headquarters and . Ball shot that buck, waited about 30 minutes, then started the walk back to his side-by-side to load it up. Jody Dalton killed a massive whitetail with his bow in Wyoming County, West Virginia, on Nov. 6, 2020. As Delta Waterfowl's Regional Director for Indiana, Michigan and Ohio, Wallace puts a lot of rubber on the road and spends more nights away from home than he'd like. Once the deer breached 30 yards, Jackson settled his crosshair and squeezed off the shot. The rifle has five caliber offerings, two barrel choices and three different riser stocks. Last Thursday evening and Friday morning, the buck showed himself during daylight, so Rodes slipped in Friday evening, hung a stand and climbed in. On Nov. 24, after hunting the buck for seven straight days, Gatlin got his opportunity. "This deer is something I have dreamed of since I was introduced to hunting around the age of 4," Rotarius says. Personal defense in the hunting woods could involve taking down a charging bear. Published Nov 5, 2012 7:36 PM EST. Game & Fish Editorial Director Adam Heggenstaller gets more info from Hawke's Paige Shipe at SHOT Show 2023 in Las Vegas. "He ran maybe 50, 60 yards." One camera showed a photo of a big 8-pointer, probably pushing 150 inches, as well as the big buck, who at this time was a 14-pointer with a split G2 and one split brow! The doe then moved into the field and began munching on beans. Courtesy of Bryan Lenke Theres some public land off the Roanoke exit of I-79 and some guys I know had caught him on trail cameras in there. Get tips from Steve Bartylla in this Hunt em Big. "While FaceTiming one of my hunting buddies, he told me to look at the screen. The rifle has five caliber offerings, two barrel choices and three different riser stocks. The Georgia native makes his living behind a camera filming hunts. One that's recently caught our attention is this super wide buck from Virginia with a reported 32-inch inside spread. Four years ago, Justin Gibson decided it was time for a new challenge. As it turns out, Wilderness Whitetails specializes in abnormally-large whitetail deer and . This means you have the option to read your magazine on most popular phones and tablets. The timing couldnt have been better. A short while later, the doe he was with led the buck down a trail directly to RJ, who placed an arrow behind the shoulder on a hard quartering-away shot. We'd had very warm weather and this buck just would leave his bed in a cedar swamp during the day. The shot was perfect, and he went down within 50 yards. John Armfield (1797-1871), Virginia co-founder of "the largest slave trading firm" in the United States, and a rapist. 200-Inch West Virginia Buck Is Almost a State Record - Outdoor Life "To kill an old warrior that never daylighted, that always seemed to stay out of harm's waythat was priceless. Scott opted to hunt across the street from the property while Stephen made his way up the beaten tote road roughly a quarter of a mile to his stand. Since Wade had a football tournament out of town, John enlisted his outdoor mentor, his uncle Kevin Krimm, to take Adam out for Ohio's youth firearms season. Sheds from this great Virginia buck were found over the past three seasons within an 800-yard radius. He need not worry. The highest-scoring deer taken overall, by quite a margin, was a big non-typical buck killed on Nov. 20 in Kanawha County by Glenn Pauley. Hunters kill more than 40,000 deer so far during West Virginia buck They dont even mind the 2 hour drive from their hometown of Virginia Beach to Fort Pickett in Blackstone Virginia to do so. I ran across the photo of the wide buck on a hunting site, checked another couple of sites and then hit a comment thread on an archery forum. Hornady's Seth Swerczek goes in depth about the new cartridge with Game & Fish Editorial Director Adam Heggenstaller at SHOT Show 2023 in Las Vegas. And I love opening weekend of firearms season because it's the one weekend of the year where you can see so many people who love the same thing you do. LOGAN, W.Va. Bucky Sargent . Exactly How Rare Are Boone and Crockett Whitetail Bucks? "The weather has been so dry that no food plots were planted," Develle says. 2 spot on our list belongs to James Jordan, who killed this 206 1/8 B&C buck in Wisconsin way back in 1914, long before trophy hunting or deer management were mainstream practices. ROANOKE, W.Va. During the two week West Virginia buck hunting season, Travis Masoner of Morgantown and his daughter were hoping to kill a buck which had developed quite a following in the Lewis County area around Stonewall Jackson Lake. Amanda had made the 10-point her primary target for this rifle season, and she connected during the first hour! Deer Kill Data. At about 5:45 p.m., Wayne heard a twig snap below him in the thicket. So not only do we want them to leave with a trophy buck, but also some helpful advice from guys who have been through it. This is the heaviest whitetail deer ever killed. 430 pound buck shot in Hartford, MI yesterday. It was the biggest buck Masoner had ever killed and he even admitted it was the widest spread on a set of antlers hed ever seen on any deer with his own eyes. This years total included 90,242 antlered bucks, 1,113 bucks that had shed their antlers, 11,921 button bucks, and 81,692 does (44%). The Kermit resident's 1997 kill obliterated West Virginia's long-standing . It was his buck. Discover More in Minnehaha County on Flipboard This year, Develle finally crossed paths with it. The measurements were eyepopping. To my surprise, I had a picture of a relatively good 10-point but had no idea this buck was in the area.". (Steve Blackburn) CHARLESTON, WV (WCHS/WVAH) With just a couple of days left to go in the buck firearm season in West Virginia, hunters have killed more than . Don't miss a story! After her success last weekend, she's now shot a good buck three seasons in a row. And having three typical bucks on the list of the top-15 biggest bucks harvested in Illinois during the past five years doesn't hurt either. He says the local scene went dead when temperatures peaked near 80 degrees last week. Game & Fish Editorial Director Adam Heggenstaller gets more info from Hawke's Paige Shipe at SHOT Show 2023 in Las Vegas. On Oct. 10, the weather presented cool, wet, windy conditions. The buck is a tall 10-pointer with a broken G4 on its left antler. ", For Gatlin, it is his best Tennessee buck, his first 10-point and first piebald. A 430-pound buck is enormous, so even a bit short of that qualifies as a giant deer. The Non-typical Bow category winner was Charles Daniel, also from Hurricane, with a big 15-point buck from Cabell County that scored 169 1/8. The 360 Buckhammer cartridge is designed for lever-action rifles and will be available in two Remington Core-Lokt loads. They were in the woods prior to daylight. "I was off all day on Thursday, Nov. 3, so I knew I had to make the most of it," Garries says. The 5-Heaviest Whitetail Deer Ever Killed - On record The buck's score, using Pope & Young Club standards, was 156 3/8. "He introduced me to hunting deer, ducks, squirrels and pretty much everything outdoors. A buck he shot in Wyoming County was scored by three official scorers Wednesday and came out at 191 2/8 inches, McDaniel said. The buck had a home range of about 40 acres, which he stuck to pretty tightly, and Rodes had him on camera regularly. Now she works in the outdoor industry as the Hunt/Fish Community Manager for Sawyer. Hunting is not. Eventually, the buck walked to within 15 yards. This is the second season that all deer were reported using the Departments electronic harvest reporting systems (telephone, online, and mobile app). I got back in my stand about nine-oclock and not long after that he came cruising through in an open area I could see.