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I'd say under 130" from what we can see in the pics. Nice tall rack.

124 136 121 I was late on round one but made my guesses before looking at the answers and wound up off by a total of 8". We'll see how close this guess is. Cool way to kill some time for sure.

Mount looks great man! The trailcam pic collection is awesome too. I've got about 6 shots of mine from the trail cam but he was a little more camera shy than yours. Congrats again.

Thx guys.

Thx man.

Bedford County

I don't understand why they make it illegal in some states. I couldn't imagine having to pass this guy up because of some stupid law, don't think I could have actually.

Funny you mention that, a good friend of mine shot a piebald doe the weekend before I shot mine (muzzleloader) and donated it to my taxidermist. He's doing a full mount on her now so he can take both to local shows. Here's a pic of them both in the back of my truck when we took them to him.

Thanx guys. The mount is at my office. I do have a dog along with infant twins so I thought it would be safer to put it in my office. Plus alot more people see it there.

I got my mount back about a month ago but haven't had time to post it up, but here it is. Some of you saw my post on this animal in the fall but for those who don't know... Killed with a rifle on opening morning of firearms season in Bedford County, VA. 22" outside spread - 8 points.

The taxidermist is still working on the doe. He rushed my buck to get it ready for a local show. I'll take a few pics when they are complete and together.

It really gets fun when the horns start to grow. I just went through 8,800 pics off one camera from the last 3 weeks. Got two seperate groups of turkeys coming in every day, one early morning the other mid afternoon. 17 in morning group and 14 in evening group. Lots of groups of does and fawns and several bachelor groups.

Looks like we've got a few here in VA too.

Post some pics when you get 'em.

Had to do the full mount, my buddies would've killed me if I didn't.

Here's the latest pic from the taxidermist. He's almost done...

Taxidermist sent me this today... Gettin' closer.

The big ones do seem to be pretty rare, found 20 or so nice ones on the net but thats it. The one from your club is one of the bigger ones I've seen as well.

.243 is a good caliber, I own two. But I think a faster and flatter shooting round, say 25-06, 22-250, 223 etc. is better for predator hunting.

Seems to me that may show that what they are doing is unnatural. If a pen raised hand fed deer on a strict diet is unable to stay healthy with a set of horns like that then a deer like that in the wild would never make it.

Didn't know that. Good for them. I'm not a fan of this type of hunting anyway, its not real hunting to me. Just raising an animal to trap in then kill. They do have some big deer on the site.

Well I guess that proves it. I'll keep my eye on B&C's website since that deer is obviously the new world record. Do you work there or something??? This is another obvious example of a skilled photographer or photo editor making this deer look much bigger than it is. You HAVE to be able to see that. Look at the guys boots, whats he wear a size 4??? I'm not saying its not a nice deer because it is, just not nearly as big as the pic shows.

492"???? Really? Come on man. They're pricing is based on classes from 170" to 200" deer, that sounds right to me for a high fence killing farm but 492" is so unrealistice its laughable.

So have you seen the pic of the piebald I got on opening day... Ignore the arm in the wrong spot and my huge hands, its legit. Did that in about 30 seconds, imagine what someone who knew how to use the program could do in an hour.

If you really what us to think this pic is real I'm gonna have to see a few more pics from various angles.