Guest bullseye78 Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Hunter shatters state buck record 'Stunning' total antler score exceeds 1987 mark by 40 inches By Candus Thomson Sun reporter November 30, 2006 Last year, Bill Crutchfield Sr. made a run at the big bucks in Maryland 's "Diamond Jim" $1 million fishing tournament. This year, his son got a different kind of big buck - a deer with antlers massive enough to put most chandeliers to shame and obliterate a state record almost two decades old. "He does the fishing, and I do the hunting," said Bill Crutchfield Jr., as he waited yesterday afternoon for state certification. With a crowd of camera-phone-toti ng hunters and Department of Natural Resources officials watching, Crutchfield hauled the carcass from the refrigerator at Hitchcock Taxidermy in Severn for the tale of the tape. The buck had 13 points on each 25-inch antler. The entire rack spanned slightly more than 21 inches tip to tip. After measuring all the antler tines and space between the prongs, Crutchfield's total score was 268 4/8 inches, breaking the mark set in 1987 of 228 4/8 inches (antlers are measured in 1/8th-inch increments). "That's stunning. That's a beast," said Paul Peditto, the head of DNR's Wildlife and Heritage Service. For Crutchfield, Monday afternoon's hunt in southern Charles County was a waiting game that began just minutes after he settled into his tree stand and heard a sound behind him in a marsh. "I turned around and seen him lay down about 100 yards away," recalled Crutchfield, 39, a Charles County native and a firefighter at the Indian Head Naval Surface ! Weapons Center . "I seen him shake his head and could see just a bit of his rack. I seen him last year and I knew he was big." To calm his nerves, he called a hunting buddy, who reminded Crutchfield that he had plenty of daylight left and to take deep breaths. About an hour passed as the hunter calculated the distance and thought about the shot. Suddenly, about 40 yards behind the big buck, an eight-point buck walked out. Minutes later, "my deer stood up and it was over like that," said Crutchfield, who after looking at the buck called his friend again to alert him that the state record was in jeopard y. To gain a spot in the national record books, Crutchfield will have to let the antlers air-dry for 60 days and then submit them for additional measurements to an official of the Boone and Crockett Club, the official record-keeping organization for North American big game. Because some bucks develop racks that do not have an equal number of tines on each side, the club divides entries into "typical," or symmetrical, and "non-typical." While the unsymmetrical antlers on Crutchfield's buck will never be mistaken for the world record of 333 7/8 inches, they easily made the 185-inch minimum to be included in the next edition of the Boone and Crockett award book. Word of Crutchfield's accomplishment attracted a previous record holder, Walt Lachewitz of Gambrills, to Hitchcock's shop, to swap stories and snap pictures. "Sad? No," said Lachewitz, who in 1998 bagged a white-tailed deer on the Eastern Shore that scored 185 7/8 inches. "I'm happy when someone gets a big one because it doesn't happen often. You could hunt for 10 lifetimes and not see a buck like that." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAstringking Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Re: huge maryland buck its a repost...do a search and there are pictures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bullseye78 Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Re: huge maryland buck i have the story on my computer but dont know how to put the pics. if anyone knows how to, please give me your email address so i can send them to you so you can put them on. this buck is A MONSTER!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Re: huge maryland buck Sounds like a awesome buck but.... WHERES THE PICS!!!???!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DowninWhiteys Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Re: huge maryland buck This is the deer in question: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bullseye78 Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 Re: huge maryland buck thats the monster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAstringking Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 Re: huge maryland buck i have never seen that picture...i only saw the pictures in the back of the pick-up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 Re: huge maryland buck Had not seen that pic before either. What an awesome deer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DowninWhiteys Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 Re: huge maryland buck From Boone and Crockett's Trophy watch- http://www.boone-crockett.org/news/trophyWatch.asp?area=news It's the story titled "Rewriting History" w/ another pic of the deer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heathcoerracin Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 Re: huge maryland buck wow!! those antlers look almost fake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coles Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Re: huge maryland buck i thought it looked fake too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodshed Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Re: huge maryland buck there is no way!! Look at the body of that deer. It's tiny compared to the antlers. That has to be a doctored picture. Not to mention the body is small in comparison to the antlers. Even a Texas deer would be more in proportion antler to body wise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Re: huge maryland buck What an awesome buck...WOWZERS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mdwhitetail Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Re: huge maryland buck Here is a trail cam picture of the buck from the year before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gitcha_some Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Re: huge maryland buck [ QUOTE ] there is no way!! Look at the body of that deer. It's tiny compared to the antlers. That has to be a doctored picture. Not to mention the body is small in comparison to the antlers. Even a Texas deer would be more in proportion antler to body wise. [/ QUOTE ] well you can voice your complaint to everyone that saw the deer, every newspaper in the tri-state area,and the guy who shot it because that buck is the new record in my state buddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrow32 Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 Re: huge maryland buck Wow!! Thats a monster. Congrats to the guy who nailed em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodshed Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 Re: huge maryland buck gitcha some, hey,, I'm sorry,,,I stand corrected. the second picture also looks as real as can be too. I'm no expert anyway. that thing is beautiful!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodshed Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 Re: huge maryland buck his body still looks skiny for a deer sporting such an incredible rack though.. He must burn alot of calories lugging all that bone around...wow..LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest muskie_man Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 Re: huge maryland buck Wow. Pretty skinny buck though. Still nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bullseye78 Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 Re: huge maryland buck to all you guys that thinks he's skinny: look at his stomach, he's field dressed already. dee,dee,dee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobie Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 Re: huge maryland buck Wow what a monster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revhard Posted December 29, 2006 Report Share Posted December 29, 2006 Re: huge maryland buck that deer was kileed within an hour of my house, and thirty minutes of my lease. it is all everyone was talking about. i cant stop hearing about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoyt03 Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Re: huge maryland buck This deer wasnt shot on a military base was it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom2008 Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Re: huge maryland buck [ QUOTE ] Here is a trail cam picture of the buck from the year before [/ QUOTE ] I remember that picture being posted on here last year! I can't believe that its the same deer! Simply Amazing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drkillemquick Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Re: huge maryland buck unbelievable deer!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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