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Jul 12, 2022 · The Johnson buck was given a panel scoring by B&C judges later who confirmed a final net score of 204 4/8 inches. This score was enough for the Johnson buck to ascend the throne as the largest typical archery whitetail ever.
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May 24, 2021 · That places Higgins’ buck second in the Illinois state record book, behind only Mel Johnson’s “Beanfield Monster,” which goes 204-4/8 and has been the Pope & Young world record for 56 years.
The Mel Johnson buck scored 204 4/8 typical points, and at the time of this writing, remains the only North American big game animal ever to receive both the coveted Ishi and Sagamore Hill awards (the highest recognition bestowed upon big game hunters by the Pope & Young and Boone & Crockett clubs, respectively).
Jun 18, 2009 · The legendary 13-pointer scored 204-4/8 in the Pope & Young typical category. It sported a 23-inch inside spread, with basal circumferences of 6? and 62/8 inches. Three tines are 12 inches long. It weighed 270 pounds dressed and close to 340 pounds on the hoof.
- The Milo Hanson Buck. Score: 213-⅝” Location: Saskatchewan. Year: 1993. You’d be hard pressed to find a fellow whitetail nut who doesn’t know the current B&C world-record typical buck and who shot it.
- The Missouri Monarch. Score: 333-⅞” Location: Missouri. Year: 1981. You are looking at the biggest wild nontypical whitetail ever measured—and one that was also never duped by a hunter.
- The Jordan Buck. Score: 206-⅛” Location: Wisconsin. Year: 1914. Speaking of reigns, the Jordan buck could have been the B&C’s longest-reigning world-record typical whitetail—by far—had things gone just a little differently.
- The Mel Johnson Buck. Score: 204-4/8” Location: Illinois. Year: 1965. Illinois bowhunter Mel Johnson was toting a recurve and had hunkered into the edge of a soybean field when he spotted a buck he’d been chasing for the better part of the fall.
May 29, 2018 · When the Oct. 29, 1965 evening hunt was over, Johnson was standing over one of the most enormous bucks that the world has ever seen, the so-called Beanfield Buck, a monstrous whitetail that has a gross score of 211 6/8-inches and a net score of 204 4/8-inches.
The score vaulted his buck to World’s Record status for typical whitetail deer in both the Boone and Crockett Records and Pope and Young (P&Y) Records. Johnson’s hunt earned him the P&Y Club’s Ishi Award and the Boone and Crockett Club’s Sagamore Hill Award.
