Wyoming State Record WT

[CouesWhitetail]

I got to score a monster WT the other day for Bob Beeman. It's not a Coues deer, it's a northern WT. Bob took this buck in Wyoming the year after he had seen it. He and his family were travelling on vacation to Yellowstone when they drove through this part of Wyoming. It was evening and Bob told his family to look for deer in the fields as they were driving. Suddenly Bob swerved off the road and pulled over. He had seen a monster buck! He got out and hiked down into the river bottom and got some video of the buck. The following year he put in for that unit and got drawn!! He got permission to hunt the area from the landowners and setup a tree stand to use his crossbow on this buck (WY is one of the few states that allow a crossbow). On the second morning he saw this buck walk below his stand. He had his video camera setup next to him to video his shot. However, as the buck was walking below, the camera slipped and made a noise. The buck looked right up into the tree but amazingly didn't see Bobby. The buck went back to feeding and Bob made a perfect shot on the buck. What an amazing buck. I scored it at 264 2/8. It has about 100 inches of non-typical points. What a brute! He killed the buck in Sept 1998, but had to get some more measurers to score it since it didn't get to the panel and it would be the state record buck for WY. This buck also is listed as the world record for SCI and the largest whitetail taken in the Western US in 75 years. Oh, and those of you that don't know Bob, he lives right here in AZ in Gold Canyon.

 

(and as a side note, Bob had some replicas made of the buck's sheds from the year before he killed it. If anyone is interested in purchasing a replica, let me know and I will get you in touch with Bob. You can see a photo of the replica as the last photo in this list).

 

 

 

 

 

This one is from King's Outdoor world calendar. They take big racks and computer generate what the buck would look like alive.

 

 

This is the replica of the sheds.

 

 

Congratulations to Bob.

 

Amanda

Edited January 1, 1970 by CouesWhitetail

[coues addict]

Amanda

Man, that buck is awesome, You must have freaked out when You got Your hands on that bad boy, what a buck. I bet you couldn`t believe some of the measurements you got even after you taped them.I hope you are doing that for one of us CWT members after this next season. Really nice pictures, Thank You for sharing them with us. Congratulations to Bob, incredible Buck! Good Luck in the draw Coues Addict

[Guest Ernesto C]

It's a MONSTERS!!! Yeap I read the story a few years back in Trophy Hunter magazine if I'm not mistaken.

 

Thanks Amanda for those pics and please keep them coming.

 

Ernesto C.