"Iowa Walking World Record" buck taken by teenager

Hockeyman · Oct 9, 2003

Not a western big game story, but a 15-year old Iowa teenager has taken what appears to be the largest hunter harvested non-typical whitetail deer of all-time.

The 38-point whitetail, known as the "Iowa Walking World Record" buck, was taken on 9/29 with a smokepole near Albia, Iowa. It has a green score of 322 4/8 inches.

Here's the link to the story on ESPNOutdoors.com:

http://espn.go.com/outdoors/hunting/s/h_fea_deer_IA_Albia_record_LB.html

Congrats to this youngster! Pretty amazing.

Hockeyman

schmalts · Oct 9, 2003

I take it he was hunting a disabled hunt season, because that is the only one open at that time.

BUGLELK · Oct 10, 2003

Actually, the youth hunt for ages 12-15 opens on Sept. 20 in Iowa...

Corey

schmalts · Oct 10, 2003

isnt that doe only?

BUGLELK · Oct 10, 2003

According to Iowa's regulations found at www.iowadnr.com, the youth license allows for one "Any Deer" permit, and up to 3 antlerless permits.

Corey

PotatoWhisperer · Oct 10, 2003

I guess it was a youth hunt with a muzzleloader. The thing is...the kid was hunting with his father, and would you believe they sawed the antlers off the skull!!!! I mean, they sawed each individual antler off and tied them together!!! They're not even attached to the skull plate. I saw the pic from the newspaper article...HUGE antlers...biggest ever, but I couldn't believe they cut them off...oh well. Still a great buck and possibly the biggest EVER! Way to go kid!

Scott G.

BUGLELK · Oct 10, 2003

What!?!?!? The article above made no mention of them being sawed off. It says they are waiting for the drying period to have them officially scored, and that it could possibly be the #3 all time whitetail in B&C. Being sawed off would disqualify it from being officially scored. Could it possibly be a different buck? If it is the same buck, what a shame...

Corey

Hockeyman · Oct 10, 2003

My understanding is that the newspaper article photo was of sheds from a previous year, and NOT the antlers from the recently harvested buck. I think there are at least two full sets of sheds that have been recovered in previous years from the Albia Buck.

The scorers made no mention of the antlers being sawed off and they would know as well as anyone that sawed off antlers can't be entered.

Also heard the paper would be printing a "clarification" about their photo.

Hockeyman

schmalts · Oct 10, 2003

LAST EDITED ON Oct-10-03 AT 11:22AM (MST)[p] They didnt saw off the antlers... They are smarter than that. Thats why you dont see pictures of it yet, they know the pictures are worth money too. Here a picture of it live on hoof, not sure how many seasons ago...

some of those H measurements have to be 7-9 inches
http://www.iowadeer.com/demosite/listings/2.html

IowaDeer · Nov 29, 2003

This year a youth in the Albia area took a 217 inch deer and yes they sawed the antlers off.....not sure why but I do know it is something they have done before...not a big deal to them...I also heard from a reliable source that they have been known to burn them in the pot belly stove

PronghornHunter · Nov 30, 2003

You won't see any pictures of the buck after the kill until the January issue of North American Whitetail. They have bought the rights to the pictures until then.

AndymanSavage · Dec 1, 2003

There is a photo of the deer's sheds from 2001 in the current issue of field and stream. They are massive!!! The head is at the taxidermists right now.

IowaShedHunter · Dec 1, 2003

The head is already mounted. I saw it two weekends ago. A local wildlife artist by the name of Larry Zach had an open house and it was on display all weekend. No one was allowed to take photos, because of agreements with North American Whitetail magazine. He is huge. His one side has to be 170 plus inches of bone.