Milo Hanson of Saskatchewan remains an untouchable hero in the eyes of Maine deer hunters.
Hanson, 81, who died last week, holds the claim to taking down the biggest whitetail buck ever shot in the world.
He killed it with a .308 on his farm in Saskatchewan in 1993.
It’s a record deer hunters globally can only dream about.
When deer hunters speak of records, they use a language foreign to mortals.
To wit, Hanson’s record takedown is measured in inches, not pounds.
His deer’s antlers, measured by a special (complicated) formula measured 213 5/8 inches “net typical.”
Basically that’s a protocol that measures different reaches of a deer’s rack based on a system called Boone and Crockett.
To help put that into a layman’s perspective, the previous record was James Jordan’s 206 1/8-incher from Wisconsin, which had long held the world record.
Jordan’s prize buck had been shot way back in 1914 – and rarely seriously challenged – so “for a new buck to shatter his record by 7 4/8 inches was indeed the stuff of headlines,” reports NorthAmericanWhitetail.com.
The record for the largest whitetail in Maine was set in 1966 by Ronnie Cox of Sherman Mills, with a score of
193 2/8.
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