Hanson Buck Picture (impressive up close)

[SaskGuy]

Canada is a relatively young country obviously with many residents actually coming north out of the U.S, my dad's side of the family actually came from Iowa and Minnesota. Anyways, my wife is from Biggar, her father and Milo Hanson grew up farming as neighbors and work side by side for the local wildlife federation. On Canada Day weekend the Town of Biggar celebrated it's 100th yr and had a big "to do homecoming party". One part of it was a parade in which the buck was part of and took a drive right down mainstreet in his truck. I'd seen the buck up close before but it is indeed built to score.

I suspect things are a little more relaxed here in terms of deer hunting as there were never more than 1 or 2 people discussing the buck with him and at times my boys were all over the box of his truck.

 

[dedgeez]

That is a neat experience for your boys. Yeah I would say it's a bit different in the states. :grin:

What a phenomenal whitetail!

 

[Skully]

If he pulled that truck into the Bass Pro parking lot in Des Moines it would look like a rock concert was taking place! Milo seems like a really humble down to earth guy, that's cool you and the boys go to see the buck up close. :way:

 

[AIRASSAULT]

He had it at the deer classic several yrs ago hanging next to ohios beatty buck.. got to meet both of those guys and see the bucks up close.. pretty cool. Milo sure was lucky that the antler didn't break off when it was shot.. pretty cool he has it in a parade

 

[SaskGuy]

Milo seems like a really humble down to earth guy

Lots of people hate the fact that he took the deer on a drive,....after multiple failed drives and like nothing more than to badmouth and slander him, especially after that whole Rompola debacle. I personally think it is great that the wr was taken by a person who's life is not consumed with hunting whitetailed deer. At the end of the day his grain/cattle farm takes priority and he was just a lucky guy on a hunt with friends and neighbors on property that they and many others could hunt. My mom's sister's husband who is also from Biggar has seen the deer and looked for it for a couple weeks. One day he ran into Milo and Milo told him he had shot that big one and it was in the shop if he wanted to go stop by and look at it although he was busy feeding cattle. My uncle and his friend Mel drove over there and went into the unlocked farm building and according to my uncle, Mel even gave the beam that had been shot a few twists to see how strong it still was.........eek!

pretty cool he has it in a parade

I initially guessed it to be a repo but before I wandered down my father in law asked him and he said it was the original, it definately had a hole in the beam.

 

[Sligh1]

Ok- just outta curiosity - what kind of money has this guy allegedly made from this buck (which this is NOT meant to be a negative question). I've heard on MANY occasions he's made "A million bucks" or whatever. Maybe it's BS but I've heard a lot of hefty figures and basically the sentiment that he hit the lotto with that buck, became wealthy and made far more $ because he didn't sell it and has taken it all over the country. Does anyone know the ball-park truth to the matter?

Personally, I hope that record gets beat someday by a bow-hunter!!!

 

[Scott]

Ok- just outta curiosity - what kind of money has this guy allegedly made from this buck (which this is NOT meant to be a negative question). I've heard on MANY occasions he's made "A million bucks" or whatever. Maybe it's BS but I've heard a lot of hefty figures and basically the sentiment that he hit the lotto with that buck, became wealthy and made far more $ because he didn't sell it and has taken it all over the country. Does anyone know the ball-park truth to the matter?

Personally, I hope that record gets beat someday by a bow-hunter!!!

I got to meet Milo over ten years ago and I remember one of the guys there that day asking how much he could sell it for. If I remember right he said the highest offer at the time was 280k but that he had made 2 million touring it around over the last several years. He was a real down to earth guy and after talking to him it made you glad that someone llike him shot the deer. More time was spent talking about farming than the actual deer.

 

[Sligh1]

the highest offer at the time was 280k but that he had made 2 million touring it around over the last several years

That's the exact type of thing I've heard dozens of times. He did far better by not selling it. Good for him, that's huge $, deer lotto right there.

ALSO- I've read on a few occasions that it was a "YOUNGER" deer- like 4.5 and some even thought it could have been 3.5!!!! Is there truth to that? I know I read that a while back BUT that was like 5-10 years ago.

Hey- killed on a "DEER DRIVE" - can someone tell the story of how they got that beast? No need for a novel BUT I really don't recall how that stud got taken??

Thanks for posting SG! I think you give me a new reason every month on why I wish I could live up there or at least enjoy the great Canadian north. What a sportsman's dream up there!

 

[Earnhardt]

The Oct. 1994 issue of North American Whitetail discusses the age of the Hanson buck. The following is from that article. "My eyes then moved to the next oldest tooth in any deer's jaw, the fifth. This tooth showed no such wear pattern. Could he actually have been only 3 1/2 years old? I looked quickly to the left side of the jaw, which showed slightly more wear but a similar pattern." Later in the article Dr. James Kroll states facts that he believes the deer was 4 1/2 years old. It's one the most informative articles I've ever read on how much a bucks' rack will increase in size as it ages.

 

[ShedHunter1]

Wonder if Bentley Cobin would give up one of the sheds to Milo's trophy?? He has one side and it scores 90 5/8 typical. I also heard it was a young deer.
What a brute!!

 

[ShedHunter1]

Did a little research tonight and Bentley has the left shed and it scores 90 2/8. The shed is awesome as the deer!

 

[SaskGuy]

I've been away fishing so have missed a ? or 2.
Skip, I have no idea the monetary gain from the deer, I've also never even heard it speculated by the numerous people I know in Biggar. I'm sure he has done well with the "deer lotto" so to speak I wish I was so lucky. I do know life has went on as it has before in regards to him and his family making a living the way thet always have.

The "drive" was a series of unsuccessful drives really. Moving from one bluff to another using tracks in the snow. It took place over a couple miles and diff't property lines but in an area where many people had access, expecially nehgboring landowners, a stroke of serious good fortune in hindsight I am sure. He has stated that though they knew it was a big deer they had no idea how big, even for days after it was killed.

I think any guesses of 3 1/2 are crazy, like stated. he was a 200 class 10 pt the yr before if the shed found was similar to the other. 4 1/2 is possible.

 

[JakeWym]

Amazing to say the least. What a buck, reguardless of how it was taken.

 

[turtlshell]

I'd seen the buck up close before but it is indeed built to score.

sums it up pretty well. I like the fact that he's normal folk...i know guys around my area that are like him, that have shot deer in the 180's and never thought twice about it. just another deer to them.