The Wisconsin Buck & Bear Club sent out a press release this morning announcing a new archery nontypical record from the Badger State.
A group of six panel scored Jim Baker’s buck at 249 5/8 inches net on Sunday. It beat out Wayne Schumacher’s 2009 nontypical by about 6 inches.
Jim Baker shot the massive buck on September 18 in Waukesha County. Baker isn’t doing many interviews, so the details of the hunt are still unclear. However, the Buck & Bear club verified that the deer was killed under fair chase hunting conditions (after the story initially broke, skeptics accused Baker of shooting the buck behind a high fence). The scoring panel included three Boone & Crockett scorers and one Pope & Young scorer.
Here’s what we know about the rack:
– 28 measurable points
– 19 7/8 inch inside spread
– 66 6/8 inches of abnormal points
– 260 5/8 inch gross score
“[The buck] has enough rack for a couple deer,” says Bucky Lhlenfeldt chairman of the Wisconsin Buck & Bear Club. “249 inches net … I mean, that is incredible.”
The world record nontypical archery whitetail (aka, the Beatty Buck) stands at 294 inches and was taken in Greene County, Ohio in 2000.
For more about the Wisconsin Buck & Bear Club, visit Wi-buck-bear.org.