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The first formal recognition of outstanding North American big game trophies by the Boone and Crockett Club was in its 1932 records book, Records of North American Big Game. Wildlife managers and others in the scientific community soon recognized that the system was an effective means of tracking the success of new conservation policies and programs. As our conservation efforts began to pay dividends and populations recovered so did the number of mature male specimens. The National Collection and the measurement system were initially conceived to record species of North American big game thought to be vanishing. In response to public interest generated by the Club's National Collection of Heads and Horns in the 1920s, and increased interest in the recovery and conservation of big game species, the Club established an official measurement and scoring system for trophy big game. At the Sportsmen’s Exhibition in New York’s Madison Square Garden, Theodore Roosevelt and other members first began scoring North American big game. In 1902, again with TR’s leadership, Boone and Crockett created a standard scoring procedure for North American big game and organized its official scoring committee, of which TR served as a member.
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The Club’s involvement with measuring trophy animals dates back to 1895. “I sort of wish I’d missed and Dillon got it, but it worked out.” I’d say so.The Boone and Crockett Club maintains the records of native North American big game as a vital conservation record in assessing the success of wildlife management programs. “It was there, I shot and it was over with,” he said. Petrzilka said he knew the buck was big, but did not take time to notice the buck’s rack before he fired at the deer, which at the time was 150 yards away and on a dead run. Time will tell, but I had to share because it is obviously the buzz in this part of the state.” Milo Hanson’s world record typical buck is 213 inches just to put into perspective, and Nebraska’s #1 typical is 199 inches.
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I have physically seen a couple bigger non-typical deer in person, but this is the biggest typical by far. No matter what happens with this buck as far as scores go, he is a once in a lifetime trophy and will be in a few magazines, no doubt. “If the buck stays as a typical, because there is a concern that his G3’s may count as non-typical, he will rank near the top in the world. The local taxidermist had this to say about the antlers of this potential Nebraska state record typical buck:
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“My boy got there first and all I heard him say was, ‘Big! Big! Big!” Petrzilka said. The antlers have eight points on one side of the rack and nine on the other. The inside antler spread on Petrzilka’s deer was 21 inches and the heavy mass followed the tines from the base all the way out to the ends of the beams. However, that didn’t happen to Petrzilka. For those keeping score, the current Nebraska record for a typical whitetail buck is 199 1/4 inches on a buck taken in 1983 in Saunders County.ĭeer antlers usually shrink when hunters walk up on their kill. In fact, the Petrzilka buck is sizing up to be the largest buck taken by firearm in North America since 1993! An official Boone and Crockett Club scorer put the preliminary score at 203 4/8 inches over the weekend, but the antlers must go through the mandatory 60 day drying period before they can be officially scored for the record book. To say this 17 point whitetail buck is big would be a serious understatement of an animal of remarkable proportions. But that’s what he did.Īnd if the measurements hold up the buck looks to rank at least number 6 on the Boone and Crockett Club’s all-time list of whitetails with typical antlers taken by a firearm. The state of Nebraska is known for some big-bodied, big-antler bucks, but nobody, not even deer hunter Kevin Petrzilka, was expecting to bag a potential Nebraska state record whitetail just outside of the town of Loma in Butler County, Nebraska.