Whitetail Deer

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Boone and Crockett’s Top Whitetail States: Latest Rankings

Using Big Game Records LIVE entry data from January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2024, the current picture of trophy whitetail production looks dramatically different from the historical record. Here’s what the numbers say.

Tips on Scoring a Whitetail Deer

Measuring a whitetail deer rack accurately requires precision and a basic understanding of the rules, particularly the tricky distinctions between normal and abnormal points and the main beam. Followi...

Lost For 30 Years: New Potential #3 Whitetail and Illinois State Record Entered

A typical whitetail scoring 207-7/8 was stashed in an Illinois basement for 32 years until some electrical work needed to be done. When the electrician saw it, he “went bonkers.” After a long day of hunting pheasants in Lasalle County, Illinois, Sam Aiuppa put the dog away and climbed into a stand along the timber. He replaced birdshot with a slug in his Remington 870 shotgun and waited for evening. It was late November and the peak of the whitetail rut—the perfect time to find a buck with its guard down. After 40 minutes or so, a buck sauntered under his stand. Aippua shot it in the face.

Adventures from the Archives - Roosevelt Luckey’s World’s Record Whitetail

In the 1930s, Roosevelt Luckey owned a Ford dealership and garage in western New York’s Allegany County. Every year, he’d drive a Ford across the state to the Adirondacks in the northeast corner to hunt deer at a cabin owned by him and a few friends. He killed his first deer there in 1926. He would make the long drive because there were relatively few places open to hunting in New York until the late 1930s. That’s when state game managers opened a short season in Allegany County.

Buffalo County, Wisconsin: Why Do They Grow So Many Record-book Whitetails?

By PJ DelHomme Buffalo County, Wisconsin, has produced more Boone and Crockett Club record-book whitetails than anywhere else. It’s the number one county in the number one state, according to Club rec...

Top Trophy Whitetail States for 2023

In 2020, we published Records of North American Whitetail Deer, Sixth Edition. This 700-page whitetail encyclopedia featured 17,000 trophy listings. In addition, we ranked the top 53 states and provinces according to the number of whitetail records listed. Those stats compiled whitetail trophy entries from 1950-2019. Things have changed in just the past three years. States have fallen behind, while others have gained ground.

Whitetail Deer

All things whitetail!

Boone and Crockett’s Top Whitetail States: Latest Rankings

Tips on Scoring a Whitetail Deer

Lost For 30 Years: New Potential #3 Whitetail and Illinois State Record Entered

Adventures from the Archives - Roosevelt Luckey’s World’s Record Whitetail

Buffalo County, Wisconsin: Why Do They Grow So Many Record-book Whitetails?

Top Trophy Whitetail States for 2023

Brian Ross: Portrait of an Antler Collector

Indiana’s Big Whitetail Buck Revival

The Huff Buck: The Inside Story of the Third Biggest Typical Whitetail

The Long Lost Whitetail State Record of Pennsylvania