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TAKEN BY: Shawn Evangelista
DATE: 11/16/13
PLACE: Ashtabula Co. OH
HARVESTED WITH: Compound Bow
ANTLER CLASSIFICATION: Irregular
SCORER(S): Ed B. Waite Jr.
OWNER: Shawn Evangelista
TYPE: Free Roaming
TROPHY MEASUREMENT DATA
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TOTAL POINTS PER ANTLER 12 12
NO. OF IRREGULAR POINTS 6 7
TOTAL IRREGULAR INCHES 23 7/8 21
LENGTH OF MAIN BEAMS 26 3/8 26
LENGTH OF 1ST POINT 7 1/8 7
LENGTH OF 2ND POINT 10 1/8 8 1/8
LENGTH OF 3RD POINT 12 4/8 10 7/8
LENGTH OF 4TH POINT 10 1/8 8 6/8
LENGTH OF 5TH POINT 3 7/8 0
LENGTH OF 6TH POINT 0 0
LENGTH OF 7TH POINT 0 0
1ST CIRCUMFERENCE (C1) 6 5/8 6 4/8
2ND CIRCUMFERENCE (C2) 4 7/8 4 7/8
3RD CIRCUMFERENCE (C3) 5 1/8 5 5/8
4TH CIRCUMFERENCE (C4) 5 4 7/8
SCORE PER SIDE 115 5/8 103 5/8
INSIDE SPREAD 18 3/8
PERCENTAGE OF IRREGULARITY 20.4
Total Inches 219 2/8
BTR SCORE 237 5/8
(INCLUDES INSIDE SPREAD)
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The Shawn Evangelista Buck
By Ed Waite

Shawn Evangelista almost forgot how to form words last year. Even his three-word sentences, repeated for emphasis, were more a series of emitted vowel sounds, punctuated by gulps of air.
You’d think that seeing – and indeed arrowing – a deer he’d seen hundreds of times in trail camera photographs would’ve been easy-breezy. But looking at jpegs isn’t the same as ogling the real live buck, especially when it doesn’t seem the least bit bothered by a hole in its side.
But at least Shawn kept his cool when it mattered. He didn’t become undone until afterward.
He and his close friend, Dave Allen, had been hoping to connect with the brute all season. Both spent countless hours setting out and checking cameras, even (by permission) on property they couldn’t hunt. Their goal was to figure out where the big whitetail was spending its days.
“Between us, we run about 10 cameras,” Shawn said. “And two other friends, Gordon Brail and Bill Trump, also have cameras on nearby f...

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