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GALLATIN, Tenn. — All that's left for a 27-year-old Tennessee man to claim the official world record for a whitetail deer is the certification from the Boone and Crockett Club.

Stephen Tucker of Gallatin killed the trophy buck with a muzzleloader in November in rural Sumner County, but a 60-day drying-out period had to take place to allow for possible shrinkage of the antlers.

That period ended Monday, and a Boone and Crockett panel of four judges measured the 47-point rack, giving the deer a score of 312⅜.

That is larger than the non-typical current net world record of 307⅝ from that Tony Lovstuen in Albia, Iowa, killed in 2003. That deer had 38 points.

Official certification won’t take place until the Boone and Crockett awards banquet in 2019.

"I just tried not to think about whether it was the world record or not during the drying out period," Tucker said. "The last week was probably the worst part of the whole time. I didn't want to get myself real worked up about it because I didn't want to be let down if it wasn't the record. I just kept telling myself, 'It's going to be what it's going to be.' "

“I didn't want to get myself real worked up about it because I didn't want to be let down if it wasn't the record.”

Stephen Tucker, Gallatin, Tenn.

Tucker said he killed the deer on a farm his family has leased for 40 years.

Deer racks are measured from several angles at the farthest points using the official Boone and Crockett scoring method.

A non-typical rack is asymmetrical and does not have the same number of points on each side like a typical rack.

The measurement took place at the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and Tucker was allowed to watch. It took nearly four hours to complete.

"I figured it would take them a pretty good while to measure is," Tucker said. "The waiting wasn't too bad until they walked out of the room to go tally it up. That's when I realized it was close. We were about to find something out for sure."

Dale Grandstaff, captain of the agency's District 21 and also a Boone and Crockett judge, never expected to measure a rack as large as Tucker's deer.

"I never thought I would ever see this in Tennessee," Grandstaff said. "Actually, I never thought I would see one over 300 inches."

Grandstaff said he would notify Boone and Crockett of the pending world record score later Monday.

Tucker then will be invited to the Boone and Crockett awards banquet in spring 2019, where a panel of two judges will re-score the antlers, Grandstaff said. The date and site for the awards banquet has not been set yet.

The antlers from a potential world-record whitetail

The antlers from a potential world-record whitetail deer killed on Nov. 7, 2016, in Tennessee could be worth $100,000. (Photo: Courtesy of Stephen Tucker)

Also Monday, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency declared the deer a new state record. It beat the record that Dave Wachtel set in 2000 in Sumner County; his deer grossed 256 pounds and netted 244⅜.

Grandstaff scored the antlers the day Tucker killed the deer and said he was very conservative with his measurements at that time.

"I knew there were places that it would possibly gain with this measurement because I was so conservative with it in November," Grandstaff said. "I did that so that nobody would get their feelings hurt if it didn't make it.

"It did shrink a little bit here and there, but the thing that was amazing to me was that we as a group put our minds together and scored it. And my deductions from the typical frame and the deductions from the typical frame today were exactly the same at 4⅞ as they were for that first measurement."

Tucker’s deer weighed about 150 pounds and was estimated to be 3½ years old.

He shot the deer from about 40 yards away. Tucker said he had the deer processed and plans to eat its meat.

Tucker said he has not yet decided what he will do with the antlers, which could be worth more than $100,000.

"I'm just going to go with the flow," Tucker said. "To be honest, I was waiting for this (score) before I put a lot of thought into it. ...

"All the phone calls and stuff had slowed down quite a bit in the last couple of weeks. I'm sure it will pick back up again after this," he said.

Tucker said he will likely have a replica of the antlers made that could be put on display.

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Good news !  I posted the kill here the day after he shot it, the kid is the cousin of my nephews hunting partner down there in Tenn.

Oh and they got a bigger one on camera that seems to have made it through the season , I may have to go down and hunt with them next year. !

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The mistake the kid made was saying his ML misfired on the deer the day prior I believe . He should be written down all the gear he used and how it helped bag that buck .... That where the $ is .

I just texted my nephew to see what he knows .

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1 hour ago, Doc said:

I have to say that that is the silliest looking thing that I have ever seen. It doesn't even look like a deer's antlers. It probably lived near a nuke power plant.

It's not the first non-typical to come down the pike...........

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That rack doesn't even look real to me... at only 3 1/2 It's almost too bad he took him out of the gene pool. Not that any other deer he sired would turn out like that ,but the genetics for some interesting racks would be more widely dispersed. Though, doe have a lot to do with it as well.  I wonder what minerals that he and the neighbors were putting out... Holy Moly now that little secret probably could put some cash in his pocket:wink:

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Here's one of the pics I got a couple days after he killed it, part of a text conversation , I have others but can't find them, I believe I may have deleted that text messages and not saved the pics.

He should have put on a UA hat and slung some high end binos over his neck, endorsements and appearances could give him a good start in life .

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Looks to me like one of those farm raised bucks that high fence hunts have. I know that there is a DNA registry for whitetails...I think it is called the North America Deer Registry Inc. Since the buck will not be officially named as the new record non-typical until 2019, it will give the B&C club plenty of time to check the buck's DNA and make sure that its genetics are wild and not...from genetic manipulation, or related to game preserve/high fence bucks. I'm sure the hunt and hunter are above board...just that the animal might be questionable. A high fence doe or buck could have escaped and bred with the local population. I'm sure they will check the DNA out.

 

http://www.wideopenspaces.com/10-uncomfortably-giant-farm-raised-deer/

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18 minutes ago, Buckstopshere said:

Looks to me like one of those farm raised bucks that high fence hunts have. I know that there is a DNA registry for whitetails...I think it is called the North America Deer Registry Inc. Since the buck will not be officially named as the new record non-typical until 2019, it will give the B&C club plenty of time to check the buck's DNA and make sure that its genetics are wild and not...from genetic manipulation, or related to game preserve/high fence bucks. I'm sure the hunt and hunter are above board...just that the animal might be questionable. A high fence doe or buck could have escaped and bred with the local population. I'm sure they will check the DNA out.

They will never go to that extreme 

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8 minutes ago, Buckstopshere said:

You mean, the B&C won't do a DNA test? Heck, people do it to see if their parrots are male or female. :rolleyes: Costs about $20...before mark up.

They would have to dig pretty deep. Our DNA is not on file. Just a name and a number.  It's not open for just anybody to get that info even if they wanted to. 

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