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Antique Store Buck Cracks Top-10 List of Typicals

Antique Store Buck Cracks Top-10 List of Typicals

By Mike Handley

If the telegraph were still in use today, the nation’s deer sleuths would be slinging a lot of clicks about an old mount recently rescued from a Pennsylvania antique store.

Ever since man began measuring and keeping records of antlers, hunters and collectors have delighted in discovering vintage whitetails that have never been scored. Perhaps the best-known wall-find was the Hole-in-the-Horn, the Ohio buck found dead on some railroad tracks in 1940, measured 43 years later after someone saw the sooty mount hanging in the nearby Kent Canadian Club.

Jay Fish, an antler aficionado in L’Anse, Michigan, has acquired the Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, buck shot by a man named Frederick Kyriss, probably with a rifle (though the deer is listed in the BTR’s pickup category). The best guess for the harvest date is sometime in the 1960s.

Efforts are being made to narrow down the date, but the Pennsylvania Game Commission hasn’t released records from the relative years.

Scored in March by Ron Boucher and Bill Campbell, the rack comes in at No. 10 among the BTR’s top Typicals.

With an overall BTR score of 224 6/8 inches, the mainframe 6x7 has two small irregular points totaling 5 4/8 inches. The antlers’ most outstanding feature is tine length: brows of 6 7/8 and 7 4/8 inches, followed by 13, 13 2/8, 10 5/8 and 6 4/8 on the right and 12 1/8, 13 1/8, 11 6/8, 8 5/8 and 4 6/8 on the left. The main beams are 27 7/8 and 26 6/8.

The inside spread is one tick below 21 inches, and the mass measurements tally 35 5/8.

That’s an impressive set of numbers.

The hefty score lifts the deer above the existing overall Pennsylvania Typical record by 6 4/8 inches. Nationwide, it’s the second-largest Typical in the BTR’s pickup category.

Jay has added the Kyriss Buck to his growing New Legends collection.

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