Monsters Of Old

BCBOY · Mar 20, 2004

LAST EDITED ON Mar-20-04 AT 09:25PM (MST)[p]Here are some pics of British Columbian Monsters Of Old.
This first buck was taken by H. Smith in 1935. It is a 12x14 that is 38 1/8 wide and nets 290 6/8 NT.

This next buck was taken by Ken McRea in 1948. It is a 13X15 that is 34 6/8 inches wide and nets 280 5/8 NT.

This last buck was taken by Harold Bartha. It is a 14X17 that nets 251 2/8 NT.

littlebuck · Mar 20, 2004

WOW! Great deer! That last buck looks scary.

typical_hunter · Mar 20, 2004

cool

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graybeard · Mar 20, 2004

BCBOY, When are you going to start writing the new "British Columbia's Biggest Bucks" ???

RACKMASTER · Mar 20, 2004

290"+ nontypical WOW!! Just thats those days are gone!
Could you image hunting in those days with today gear?
BCBOY where do you get these pics?
Thanks RACKMASTER

BCBOY · Mar 20, 2004

Rackmaster and Greybeard,
Most of the pics I post are sent to me by other hunters in the province or are actually my own. These ones weren't. I actually was playing around with the scanner at work the other day and scanned a few pics from the book Trophy Deer and Elk of BC. These are some of my favorites from the book and I thought you guys would like to see them. The book is out of print and totally sold out. I hope that Rick Berreth will do another edition one day because there are a whack of monsters taken since 1994 when the book was compiled.
Here's a comment in the book that I like about that 290 giant, "Neil told me that his dad said it's body was on the small side, only 240 lbs. What kind of bucks were taken in that era, we can only guess."

RACKMASTER · Mar 20, 2004

And no one in worried much about antlers in what? 1934?
back in early 60's(I was7-8yrs old) I was nuts about a huge piles of racks that were in my grandfather barn,spend all day in their!
Most racks came from north eastern California others South Utah,Colorado,Arizona.(a hundred easy bulls and bucks)
About 20 years ago I asked my Uncle about them and he said he had them however they gotten wet and rotted so he thrown them away! But he will leave the dozen or so mounts to me when he gone which was a tear jerker hes the only one left! Grandfather,and Uncles only hunted horn in UTAH,COLORADO!
RACKMASTER