NEW RECORD?

NEW RECORD?
Ohio deer season
Brad Jerman of Springboro harvested a 10-point, 300-pound buck with a cross bow in Warren County. The deer, with a nearly perfect symmetrical rack, taken by Jerman on Nov. 8, is potentially a state record.
A typical rack means it is perfectly symmetrical -- the same number of points and size on each side. Nontypical racks have all sorts of points, usually with more on one side than the other of different sizes. Typical racks are rarer.
According to a Dayton Daily News report, the rack was scored for Boone and Crockett at 202 1/8. That's a green score. Once the rack has dried for 60 days it will be dry-scored. If that score holds up, it would be an Ohio record for typical bucks by one inch, the Daily News reported. It also would rank ninth in the world for whitetail typicals.
A Buckmasters scorer scored the rack at 183 7/8. Buckmasters uses a different measuring system. A Buckmasters spokesman said the rack already is a Buckmasters national record for a whitetail taken with a crossbow and ranks fourth for one taken by any means. It also might qualify for the Buckmasters' top whitetail of the year award.
If the Jerman buck holds up as a state record, it will join the buck taken by Mike Beatty in 2000 near Xenia as one of the largest bucks taken anywhere. Beatty's nontypical buck, which scored 304 6/8, still ranks as the largest ever taken by bow and arrow. So the state records for typical and nontypical racks could come from areas just a few miles apart.
The state record for typicals is 201 1/8, held by Bill Kontras for a buck taken in Clark County in 1986.
Source: Dayton Daily News, Ohio Division of Wildlife