Monster Bucks | Whitetail Hunting

Ohio Monster Buck – Giant Main Beams!

Hunter Brian Stephens harvest a true Ohio monster buck this season and it may hold the record for the the longest two beams ever recorded on a white-tailed deer. You can definitely say his whitetail hunting season started off with a bang! On November 30th, the opening day of Ohio’s gun season, the hunter dropped this big 18-point buck at 80 yards with his .50 caliber T/C muzzleloader.

The enormous buck looks should blow away Ohio’s non-typical muzzleloader record and will almost certainly set the new mark for the largest whitetail main beam antler length. The photos of this animal are absolutely astonishing, and the mass this buck carries throughout his frame is the stuff that dreams are made of. The big Ohio bruiser green scored 232 5/8 Boone and Crockett inches.

Here is what the hunter stated after dropping this giant buck:

“While the other guys were still hunting, I got the buck with my truck and put a tarp over it to surprise them when they got back. The second my Dad came back from whitetail hunting in and saw the tarp he said, ‘Let me guess. You killed a coyote at 1 pm.’ I lifted up the tarp and I can’t tell you what he said exactly, but let’s just say he was bowled over. Honestly, the look on his face made the whole hunt for me.

It’s been pretty chaotic ever since. At the check-in station, somebody saw the buck and yelled ‘Oh my God, it’s a giant!’ Next thing I knew, I was surrounded by people and getting my picture taken with complete strangers and my big buck. Heading home the next day, people were beeping, waving, giving me thumbs up.”

Yep, thumbs up!

Minnesota Bowhunter Bags 16 Point Buck

Minnesota Public Land Monster

Minnesota has big deer and big time deer hunters, so it’s not surprise that another nice buck was harvested this year on public land through some smart hunting. Minnesota’s tough winters make for large bodied deer, and large bodied deer tend to produce outstanding antler mass. But not only does the 16 point buck harvested by Chris Wenisch have mass, the buck has tine length, to0.

Source: Chris Wenisch, an environmental health specialist with the Kandiyohi County Public Health Department in Minnesota, tagged this 16-point public land prize one week after missing a tough shot on the buck at 30 yards. View the slideshow to learn how a smart move put Wenisch in perfect position to make the most of his second chance.

Minnesota’s Camp Ripley Produces Monster Buck

Camp Ripley produces another monster whitetail

When it comes to great whitetail hunting, Minnesota has a reputation for producing some great monster bucks. Although the current nontypical record is over 225 inches, resident Scott O’Konek did his best to threaten that record. And it sounds sad to to say he came up short, because he bagged one heck of a big buck, but his deer did not make the cut. However, I would have a smile a country mile wide if I had even seen this great deer, much less tagged it after putting a well-placed arrow through it.

Source: Scott O’Konek may have rewritten the Minnesota record books when he tagged this 32-point buck around 9 a.m. on Oct. 15, the first day of Camp Ripley’s annual two-day archery hunt. Bolstered by good mass and long brow tines, the big deer’s green score—conservatively measured at 228 nontypical—would be more than enough to dethrone the current state-record archery buck, ~~a 222 5/8 nontypical taken in 1992 by Gary Martin~~ a 226 3/8 nontypical taken in 2008 by Ben Spanjers. O’Konek’s deer weighed 192 lbs. field dressed, and the highly symmetrical rack netted 183 7/8 typical.