Top 5 States For Killing A Boone & Crocket Buck – You Might Be Surprised

[greg]

Top 5 States For Killing A Boone & Crocket Buck – You Might Be Surprised

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"Below are the states with the top B&C entries as a % of total buck harvest rankings, and then the next list below that highlights the traditional view of the record books, with the top states by total number of B&C entries."

States With Top B&C Entries As a % of Total Buck Harvest (2009-2011)

1. Indiana – .084%

2. Kentucky – .082%

3. Kansas – .078%

4. Iowa – .078%

5. Illinois – .065%

States With Top Total Number of B&C Entries (2009-2011)

1. Wisconsin – 241

2. Ohio – 151

3. Illinois – 136

4. Kentucky – 134

5. Indiana – 131

(For those curious – Iowa came in at 112 and Kansas had 98)

 

[Hookeye]

Quite a few old timers kill monster deer and never put them in the book.
Might make the stats a little misleading

 

[phylodog]

I visited with some friends in central Wisconsin a couple of years ago. We stopped into a bar & grill in a small town which was also a deer checking station and kind of the hub where the hunters gathered. They had several photo albums on the bar with hundreds of pictures of huge bucks, I mean huge. I lived in Texas and saw some giants down there but I've never seen the numbers of big deer like they have up there. I've been trying to secure an invite to hunt the bow season ever since.

 

[smokingman]

I have serious doubts about that list.Largest deer ever shot was not even scored.Happens to be around 50 miles from where I currently live.
In 1926, Carl J. Lenander, Jr. took a Whitetailed buck near Tofte, MN that was estimated at 511 pounds live weight. The buck field-dressed at 402 pounds and the Minnesota Conservation Department officially calculated the live weight at 511 pounds. According to Lee Rue’s book, Minnesota recognizes it as the largest whitetail ever killed in the state and likely one of the largest ever taken in North America.

I do not think many bother to get scored up here.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Min...ZB8KvrQHHroGADg&ved=0CEkQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=574

Here is a different Boone and Crockett list.
http://www.boone-crockett.org/bgrecords/records_whitetail.asp?area=bgrecords
Mapping all 5,439 entries gave me a print similar to the 1980-2001 map, since the vast majority of trophies come from that period. Forty-two states and 1,443 counties produced entries, with most coming from the top 10 states: IA (615), MN (608), WI (589), IL (552), TX (316), MO (285), KY (279), KS (255), OH (235), and MI (155). These 10 states accounted for 3,880 entries, or 72 percent of the record book. The all-time best counties are Buffalo, WI, and St. Louis, MN with both recording 62 entries. The top 50 counties are distributed in the following states: IA (13), MN (12), WI (10), IL (8), TX (5), ME (1), and MT (1).

 

[Kirk Freeman]

A 500 lb. deer? Are there photos?

What did it eat for breakfast? Anything it wanted.

No surprise that the B&C whitetails are all in the Midwest. It is an open buffett of soybeans, corn, apples, wheat and oats, potatoes, mint, etc.

 

[Hookeye]

It also costs $40 to enter your buck into B&C.
Then there's the book ($25-200), and or a plaque ($100-200) most folks would probably buy.

I have a 160+ on my wall. He's in HRBP because it was free. He's not in B&C

Thought about it, more than once...........but as time goes by it means less and less.

I just want a 125" by recurve. That to me would mean a whole lot more, P&Y entered or not.

 

[greg]

It also costs $40 to enter your buck into B&C.
Then there's the book ($25-200), and or a plaque ($100-200) most folks would probably buy.

I have a 160+ on my wall. He's in HRBP because it was free. He's not in B&C

Thought about it, more than once...........but as time goes by it means less and less.

I just want a 125" by recurve. That to me would mean a whole lot more, P&Y entered or not.

When was the HRBP entry "FREE"....

 

[Willie]

When was the HRBP entry "FREE"....

When the IDNR did it.....

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

511 pounds?!?! Wow!

Like Kirk asked, are there any photos?

 

[smokingman]

511 pounds?!?! Wow!

Like Kirk asked, are there any photos?

I have searched the net and found none.I will ask at one of the local hangouts(bar in the middle of no where with the walls covered in hunting pictures).

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I have searched the net and found none.I will ask at one of the local hangouts(bar in the middle of no where with the walls covered in hunting pictures).

I was never much of a hunter but I can remember deer being so rare, when I was growing up in Tennessee, that it was a "big deal" to see one out and about. Times have changed. I know my brother (who is a long time deer hunter) has always been impressed by the size of deer up here, in IN.

 

[smokingman]

I was never much of a hunter but I can remember deer being so rare, when I was growing up in Tennessee, that it was a "big deal" to see one out and about. Times have changed. I know my brother (who is a long time deer hunter) has always been impressed by the size of deer up here, in IN.

On any given day up here when we drive into town we see 30+ deer,on a good day it is 40+(12 mile drive).Up here there are herds that are huge.We have a herd of around 20 that passes through our property on occasion,and have seen much larger herds feasting on hay fields.The state estimates the current deer population at over 1 million.It is really a different world up here,where humans are by far the minority(there are more black bears than people in our county).

Here is an article on the Monarch.Thought to be the largest shed ever.
The Legendary Minnesota Monarch Buck - North American Whitetail

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

On any given day up here when we drive into town we see 30+ deer,on a good day it is 40+(12 mile drive).Up here there are herds that are huge.We have a herd of around 20 that passes through our property on occasion,and have seen much larger herds feasting on hay fields.The state estimates the current deer population at over 1 million.It is really a different world up here,where humans are by far the minority(there are more black bears than people in our county).

Here is an article on the Monarch.Thought to be the largest shed ever.
The Legendary Minnesota Monarch Buck - North American Whitetail

That is impressive. No bears here, that I know of. But I've seen a few herds 15-20 on our property every now and then in the fall/winter months. I think the biggest conglomeration of deer I ever saw was at Cades Cove in the Smokey Mountain Park. It was late winter--Feb/March, back when I was in college, when I saw them. When I came up on the Cove, I thought it was a huge herd of cattle grazing out there. After a few seconds, it dawned on me they were deer. I don't know how many there were, but it was a bunch.

I forget the name of that disease, but it's really taken a toll on the deer population down around where my brother lives in TN.

 

[Willie]

............

I forget the name of that disease, but it's really taken a toll on the deer population down around where my brother lives in TN.

Epizootic_Hemorrhagic_Disease better known as EHD

Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Epizootic_Hemorrhagic_Disease better known as EHD

Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That could be...but I'm pretty certain the word "Epizootic" has never been uttered by me

 

[Willie]

That could be...but I'm pretty certain the word "Epizootic" has never been uttered by me

You got it.... Only the biologists use that word. Us commen folks say EHD...

 

[cedarthicket]

...and sometimes Blue Tongue?

 

[Hookeye]

I'm not a biologist and use it, when talking about EHD, about 30% of the time.
No biggie.

 

[Zoub]

I've been trying to secure an invite to hunt the bow season ever since.

I was at our new home 5-10 minutes, went inside to take a **** and a huge doe went by the front of the house. We are talking 15 yards from the front porch and bathroom window. It may not be exciting, but you can bow hunt from the guest crapper here.

Today we parked the truck next to the largest turkey I have ever seen. Saw him again about 8 hours later on our way to the Polish Palace for dinner. The mounts they have in that place alone are impressive but every place up here has similar sizes and even more mounts.