gengberg November 10th, 2009

  Please check out this link to a possible world record deer shot in Wisconsin by Mike Gregorie of Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. Here is the story from the Fond du Lac Reporter.

State hunter may have world-record score

If it wasn’t for the unseasonably warm 70-degree weather, Michael Gregoire might have kept his monster buck another day or two — just to continue showing off the prize kill.

Instead, the possibly record-setting rack on the buck he shot with bow and arrow last week is already sitting on the taxidermist’s bench, ready to be crafted into the ultimate trophy.

The 38-year-old Gregoire, of Sheboygan Falls, killed the whitetail deer on his brother’s 160-acre farm just west of Sheboygan Falls. The 12-point buck weighed 240 pounds and taped out at 217 5/8 inches, according to an unofficial score tallied Friday.

A rack is scored by measuring the inside spread of the antler rack, the length of each tine, around the base of each horn and around the main beam of the antlers.

A 60-day drying period must first pass before an official score, typical or non-typical, is granted.

The world record is 213 5/8 inches — shot with a rifle in Biggar, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1993 — according to the Boone and Crocket Club Web site, on which hunting records are listed. The state record for a whitetail with a typical (symmetrical) rack is 206 1/8 inches. The deer was taken in Burnett County in 1914.

“It’s been pretty exciting,” Gregoire said. “My phone hasn’t stopped ringing.”

In no time, word of the buck spread like wildfire, according to Gregoire’s brother, Doug.

“We took it to get it scored in Elkhart Lake, and there were people coming from all over the place,” Doug Gregoire said. “We told the taxidermist we were coming with a deer that we thought scored as high as it did, and when we got there, there were people waiting.”

As much speculation as there is about the buck breaking records, there won’t be a final verdict until another two months. Gregoire has to wait not only for the 60-day drying period to elapse, but also for the results from three licensed, random scorers.

http://www.fdlreporter.com/article/20091110/FON0101/911100383&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL

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