Just in case you haven’t been totally consumed by buck fever yet, here’s one last nudge to tip you all the way over the edge. We put together a countdown of the highest-scoring whitetail buck ever killed according to Boone and Crockett records.
Throughout the gallery we included the unbelievable stories of how some of these bucks were killed.
For more buck photos, check out these pictures of fighting, chasing, and breeding whitetails during peak rut.
All photos by: Boone and Crockett Club
Typical
1. Milo N. Hanson
Score: 213 5/8
Location: Saskatchewan
Year: 1993
It all started with a school bus driver. On the last day of Saskatchewan’s 1992 deer season, the driver told locals a monster whitetail was feeding in Milo Hansen’s alfalfa field. Once word got around, the buck was spotted on farms, in pea fields and then near a highway just north of Biggar in the southwestern portion of the province.
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On opening day of the 1993 season, friends and family gathered at the Hansen house as they always had since Milo and his wife Olive moved to the farm in the early 1970s. They swapped stories of hunts past and talked of how to make a little history and kill the big buck. The opener proved a bust as the snow was a week old, but on November 22, new snow arrived and the posse devised a plan.
Neighbors spotted the buck and watched him go into the willows. No one saw him come out. One hunter went into the willows while everyone else posted themselves around the escape route. The buck flushed. Buck fever ensued and several shots missed their mark.
Milo watched the buck run, leveled his 4-power scope and took two shots from his .308 Winchester, bringing the buck to his knees. One more shot and the deer was dead. Milo hadn’t had a cigarette in three years, but he wanted one that day. Friends measured the buck, and then re-measured the buck. Soon, Milo realized he might just have a world’s record. Finally, three official Boone & Crockett measurers confirmed everyone’s suspicions. Milo had killed the world’s finest typical whitetail.
2. James Jordan
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