On Monday a few friends and I were sitting around making Pete Coors alittle richer and we started talking about deer hunting. After a few stories of the big bucks we had all seen in the past few years, my buddies neighbor came over and tossed a few back with us. He told us that he over heard our conversation and figured that since he USE to hunt he would tell us about some big bucks that he has seen in the past. Now when someone who says that they use to hunt "alittle" tells you about the big bucks they had seen you kinda wonder just how big they really were. I mean to some people a 130" 8pt is a real big buck. Anyway he started telling us about this buck that he shot in 1990 and it was a 10pt that had a 22" inside spread and really heavy. Being the curious person that I'am I asked if they took pics of it because it sounded like a great buck, he said no I dont have any pics of it but I do have it mounted and its in the basement. He invited us over to take a peek at it and he wanted to know if we thought it was big or not.
Down in the laundry room, in the back corner on a hook that was pounded into the cinderblock was an ABSOLUTE GIANT. The inside spread was indeed 22 1/2" and a offical pope and young score sheet laying in a pile of other papers next to it. Gross score of 199 4/8 and a net score of 188 even. I never would have thought that this guy would ever have anything like this but low and behold there it was.
Now lets fast forward to tuesday. I'm at another friends house and we were doing the same thing, recycling beer cans, and I told the story about Dan's neighbor who had a monster tucked in his basement. Well it happened again, Tom started telling us about a deer his dad shot 8 years ago while shotgun hunting and it was some freak of nature, then he invited us up the road to his parents house where the buck was mounted, once again in the basement. This thing was jaw dropping. 4 drop tines, 3 on one side and a lone 9" on the other. Tom's dad told us that he wasnt even going to have it mounted but the others in the group talked him into it. He had it scored and all he knew was the final score was 199 and something, but couldnt remember what the gross was.
Now for the last few days I have been sitting around wondering.....just how many undiscovered monsters are sitting in someones basement or garage?
Down in the laundry room, in the back corner on a hook that was pounded into the cinderblock was an ABSOLUTE GIANT. The inside spread was indeed 22 1/2" and a offical pope and young score sheet laying in a pile of other papers next to it. Gross score of 199 4/8 and a net score of 188 even. I never would have thought that this guy would ever have anything like this but low and behold there it was.
Now lets fast forward to tuesday. I'm at another friends house and we were doing the same thing, recycling beer cans, and I told the story about Dan's neighbor who had a monster tucked in his basement. Well it happened again, Tom started telling us about a deer his dad shot 8 years ago while shotgun hunting and it was some freak of nature, then he invited us up the road to his parents house where the buck was mounted, once again in the basement. This thing was jaw dropping. 4 drop tines, 3 on one side and a lone 9" on the other. Tom's dad told us that he wasnt even going to have it mounted but the others in the group talked him into it. He had it scored and all he knew was the final score was 199 and something, but couldnt remember what the gross was.
Now for the last few days I have been sitting around wondering.....just how many undiscovered monsters are sitting in someones basement or garage?
