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Entries for July 2023
New VA Record from 1971
By Patrick Dunning
I spend a considerable amount of time thumbing through scoresheets looking for the story-worthy whitetails, which wouldn’t be possible without our Buckmasters scorers throughout the country promoting BTR’s scoring system and volunteering their time to measure antlers.
A 197” Virginia giant from 1971 turned up at the inaugural Sta... READ MORE
Better To Be Lucky Than Good
By Patrick Dunning
Carl Lucky III didn't have an answer when his grandsons, 12 and 10 years old, asked him if he ever killed a giant buck, would he holler?
"I said, 'Luke, I don't know that I would, that's not really my personality. I've been excited about killing nice deer before but never screamed and hollered.'"
After harvesting Missouri's seventh largest compo... READ MORE
259" in Ohio
By Patrick Dunning
18-year-old Carson Putnam has been on a roll the last couple of years, claiming Ohio's #1 spot in BTR's Centerfire Rifle category after harvesting this 33-pointer in November 2021 that's truly one of a kind, and a 184-inch mainframe 5x5 in 2022 that he's even more proud of.
Carson's state record from Ross County has a compact frame with an 8 1/8 i... READ MORE
New No. 1 in KS
By Patrick Dunning
On top of being the state’s new #1 compound-felled buck in BTR’s perfect category, Joshua Trolinger’s public-land giant is the third-largest perfect harvested in Kansas by any weapon and the sixth-largest perfect worldwide by compound bow. Joshua discovered this world-class whitetail in November 2022 and had it within 40 yards fou... READ MORE