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More to the Score – Volume 16

More to the Score – Volume 16

By golly, it’s finally hunting season. Here’s a teaser to get your heart pumping. 

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You won’t find any “let ‘em grow” bucks here. You will find an epic state-record ram, a seriously nasty non-typical whitetail, and a massive Nevada bear. And who can forget the 95-inch pronghorn? Take a look. 


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Dierking - NTW
NON-TYPICAL WHITETAIL 

Just wow. With 21 points on the right and 14 on the left, this whitetail defines non-typical. And it’s awesome. On a sunny day at just nine yards, Dierking made his shot count on this buck, the fourth-largest non-typical from Missouri.  

B&C SCORE: 267-7/8
LOCATION: Henry County, Missouri 
YEAR TAKEN: 2016
HUNTER: Jacob E. Dierking 
 

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Boero - TCB
TYPICAL COLUMBIA BLACKTAIL 

With the second-largest typical Columbia blacktail in California, this is Steven Boero with his best Columbia blacktail to date. Unless another hunter gets very lucky this fall, Boero will have three animals at the 32nd Big Game Awards, including two blacktails and one Coeus’ deer. 

B&C SCORE: 171-1/8 
LOCATION: Shasta County, California 
YEAR TAKEN: 2007 
HUNTER: Steven P. Boero
 

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BLACK BEAR 

On a self-guided hunt on public land, Bryan Boren used a classic Winchester Model 94 .30-30 to take this mighty bruin at just 18 yards. Dang! Believe it or not, this bear is the 22nd largest bear in the records for Nevada. The state record comes in roughly two points larger. Still, that's a pretty sweet bear. 

B&C SCORE: 20-8/16
LOCATION: Carson City County, Nevada
YEAR TAKEN: 2023
HUNTER: Bryan J. Boren   

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PRONGHORN 

Mike Gallo (in camo) has a knack for killing really big pronghorns. In fact, he is the current world’s record holder with a buck he killed in New Mexico in 2013. A decade later, he came close to breaking his own record with this absolute specimen. Fun fact: Mike donated his world’s record to the Club's National Collection of Heads and Horns. 

B&C SCORE: 95-0/8 
LOCATION: Otero County, New Mexico 
YEAR TAKEN: 2023
HUNTER: Mike Gallo 

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TYPICAL WHITETAIL 

During Michigan’s whitetail rut in 2023, Collin Lay used his .450 Bushmaster to take down this buck. This deer is the second-largest typical whitetail to come out of Ionia County, according to Big Game Records LIVE. 

B&C SCORE: 160-3/8 
LOCATION: Ionia County, Michigan
YEAR TAKEN: 2023
HUNTER: Collin Lay  

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BIGHORN SHEEP 

It took a few days, but Tanya Novotny eventually found the ram she was looking for. With a 160-yard shot in the middle of nowhere North Dakota, Tanya killed the fourth largest ram in the records from North Dakota. 

B&C SCORE: 177-2/8  
LOCATION: Mckenzie County, North Dakota 
YEAR TAKEN: 2023
HUNTER: Tanya A. Novotny  

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NON-TYPICAL AMERICAN ELK

Gary A. Przekwas was used to traveling to Colorado to hunt elk. He’d done well over the years, taking 10 elk in as many trips. But when he drew a once-in-a-lifetime tag to hunt elk right outside his family cabin in Kittson County, he did not disappoint. Przekwas called this bull in and, in an interview with a local paper, said he didn’t even “break a sweat” thanks to the flat terrain in Minnesota compared to Colorado. 

B&C SCORE: 396-2/8  
LOCATION: Kittson County, Minnesota 
YEAR TAKEN: 2023
HUNTER: Gary A. Przekwas   

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DESERT BIGHORN 

For Leo Goss, 2023 was a big year. He had four Boone and Crockett Club record-book entries, including this awesome desert bighorn ram from Mexico. To be fair, 2023 wasn’t his biggest year for the records. In 2020, Goss had seven, yep, seven entries, including a pronghorn from Wyoming and the rest were from south of the border. 

B&C SCORE: 183-2/8  
LOCATION: Coahuila, Mexico  
YEAR TAKEN: 2023
HUNTER: Leo H. Goss  

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NON-TYPICAL COLUMBIA BLACKTAIL  

In what appears to be nothing short of a rainforest, Bryan Heck managed to not just see this monster blacktail, but actually arrow it last October. Those dark antlers make Heck’s buck the sixth-largest non-typical Columbia blacktail to come out of Washington. 

B&C SCORE: 157-3/8 
LOCATION: Thurston County, Washington 
YEAR TAKEN: 2023
HUNTER: Bryan W. Heck

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BIGHORN SHEEP 

With a new state record, Blake Sartini holds his ram, which is roughly a decade old. He killed this old giant in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness in early December 2023. Shooting a 28 Nosler, Sartini dropped the ram at 100 yards with a 180-grain bullet. 

B&C SCORE: 197-1/8  
LOCATION: Grant County, New Mexico 
YEAR TAKEN: 2023
HUNTER: Blake L. Sartini, Sr. 
 

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