peloncillo Report post Posted June 13, 2006 The number one non-typical shown on this site is not the same as on boone and crockett's site. I wonder if they finally realized they had a mule deer as a coues. 196 inches of coues antler seems almost impossible to me. I've hunted whitetails up in Canada that outweigh coues three to one and they rarely grow that much antler. The new number one at least looks like a whitetail the old one never looked right to me. Keven old number one new number one Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DEERSLAM Report post Posted June 13, 2006 The new #1 was entered this past awards period and out scored the previous #1 which is now #2. The new #1 scores 196 2/8 and was taken by a native american in AZ. The old #1 scored 186 and was taken in NM. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Outdoor Writer Report post Posted June 14, 2006 Here's the short release I wrote up on this rack several months ago for NORTH AMERICAN WHITETAIL magazine. -TONY WORLD-RECORD COUES DEER The Boone and Crockett Club officially recognized a buck from Graham County, Arizona as the new non-typical Coues deer world record. The antlers score a whopping 196 2/8 points, besting the old record by 10 1/8 points. The announcement at the 25th North American Big Game Awards in Kansas City, Missouri during June 2004 occurred after the B&C?s Record Committee thoroughly investigated the authenticity of the Coues deer antlers because of the circumstances involved in their discovery. Buck Buckner, chairman of the B&C?s Record Committee, said the remarkable trophy has the basic Coues? deer configuration, as well as the narrow, inter-pedicel width measurements characteristic of Coues? deer. The rack shows evidence of gnawing by rodents, and is missing a couple of point tips. Two broken abnormal points were x-rayed, as was the entire rack. According to the background B&C was able to piece together, a now deceased member of the Apache tribe killed the buck in the Mt. Turnbull area of the San Carlos Apache Reservation sometime around 1971, and the antlers remained within the family until a nephew sold them to an antler buyer. The buyer later sold them to the current owners, Dana J. Hollinger and Bob Howard. The two men, who collect antlers, submitted the trophy to B&C in December 2003. A special B&C judge?s panel, convened especially to verify possible world-record heads, officially scored the deer as the new record. The non-typical rack, with an inside spread of 12 3/8 inches, sports 11 points on the right side and 15 on the left side. The main beam lengths are 20 4/8 and 19 3/8 respectively, and the smallest circumference between the burr and first point on each side measured 4 6/8. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peloncillo Report post Posted June 14, 2006 Thanks for the info. A really amazing rack. Keven Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
