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cruff10 said:
I live in the area, it was aged at 8.5. I know people that had trail cam pics of him for 4+ years. People have had his sheds for 4+ years. He was a very wild deer. People knew he was there, and no one was able to get him until now. Ended up slipping up chasing a doe. Ended up being killed on public ground. With lots of hunting pressure. His gross score was 205, with 7 inch deductions for a green score of 198. That score is what is being told around town.
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It looked to me his net was going to be close to the gross very symmetrical rack .
 
Giant buck!

We use standardized scoring systems to best understand the size of a buck. In my opinion, scoring honors the deer, not the lucky hunter.

it is not difficult to rough score a deer, but I'm always amazed how many people don't have a clue how to do it. It takes 10 minutes with a $.99 tailor ruler, a pencil, and a score sheet.

A lot of people don't score their "big" bucks because they would prefer to just tell people how big they think it is vs. the truth. My $.03.
 
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bigjohn said:
Anyone heard if this has been scored yet?
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Go to the TN deer registry page if you put in the last name of the hunter on the search bar it shows a buck killed 11-13-23 muzzleloader , Morgan County 176 6/8. I am guessing that's your deer. Absolutely awesome buck! I Just went by the last name from page 1 of this thread that told the name of the hunter who killed the deer. If that's not it then this one is a stud also! Lol
 
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I'm sure that's it. Crazy to think a deer like that running around these hills. I hope he passed along his genes to many more. Deer of a lifetime!
 
Snake said:
Nothing like a giant typical , that's a true beast . Morgan Co. to boot that county had a deer die off (EHD)a few years back didn't it ?
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Yes it did! I live and hunt in northern Morgan and hunt in southern Scott County as well. Both were hit extremely hard by EHD in 2017. Morgan in my area lost about 2/3 of its herd. Scott was hit slightly harder. It still has not recoverd. Harvests are about 50-60% of what they were before the outbreak.
 
Antler Daddy said:
Giant buck!

We use standardized scoring systems to best understand the size of a buck. In my opinion, scoring honors the deer, not the lucky hunter.

it is not difficult to rough score a deer, but I'm always amazed how many people don't have a clue how to do it. It takes 10 minutes with a $.99 tailor ruler, a pencil, and a score sheet.

A lot of people don't score their "big" bucks because that would prefer to tell people how big they think it is vs. the truth. My $.03.
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Most people don't know how to read a tape measure these days.
 
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Yes it's official. Really surprised that it could have that many deductions after gross green score was 204".
 
I had 198" roughly based off the pictures when I added it up using the measurements given in the picture. But I do not see 20" of deductions. That just sounds odd to me.
 

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