50" mule deer pic?

[Pcjr21]

This is a picture of a 50" buck. The picture is on the wall at snake river processing in Baggs Wy. There are a many old pictures with this picture of many bucks in the high 40's. what do you think! The picture looks more real in person, and the other bucks look a little more real in there picture. What do people think is there any chance it's real????????

 

[tailchasers]

The mount does look funky but when you mention Baggs this tends to lead me to believe its real. I have seen some other timer pics from the northern Colorado boarder not to far west of Baggs of bucks that have the similar "hard to believe" look. Good picture to study.

"Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."

 

[Pines_N_Tines]

It's hard to believe that the skull plate on that mount is not broken but I guess it's possible that it is not.

 

[bukslayer]

Looks like a broken skull plate to me...

 

[chewyman55]

I am probably wrong here but I thought that true 50" had never been broken. I know of a handful of 49 and changers but didn't think they hit the mark. What a let down to only get a 49 incher!

 

[gb22]

Actually, Chewyman, I think 50" has been "reached" a couple of times........
............but even if not and if that IS a broken skull plate, BIG DEAL. It's certainly not "stretched" 8 or 10 inches. That's a giant deer.

Locally, we had a 49" head in the local sporting goods store for many years...it just went "back home" a couple of years ago.


Within the shadows, go quietly.

 

[Pcjr21]

There is a date and name in the pic 8/15/64
Zach Weber

 

[bukslayer]

No one said it wasn't a giant deer the question was whether it was a legitimate 50" wide deer. In which case the buck having a broken skull plate and being played open would have an impact on how wide it really was.

 

[YELUM]

Rolly Anmderson killed a 54 inch buck in Idaho, with giant double droppers. Kings had it in thier calendar

Yelum

 

[bukslayer]

Yeah that buck is a monster... I think it was killed in Wyoming

 

[horncrzy]

Yelum is right....and i do believe it is the world record for the widest recorded deer

 

[sageadvice]

LAST EDITED ON Nov-11-12 AT 04:35PM (MST)[p]Regardless, it's a awesome trophy and i thank the OP for posting it up.

If i killed a deer with that much bone, i'd want it as killed or not at all. My guess then, is that it's right but that's just my guess.

Joey


"It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"

 

[txhunter58]

Photoshop!

LOL. What a different world we live in now where every picture is a potential fake, unlike the above one.

txhunter58

venor, ergo sum (I hunt, therefore I am)

 

[T264]

I believe the widest recorded inside spread is from TEXAS. 46 1/2" inside mainbeams. Was poached in West Texas about 10 years ago.

T264

 

[Runnoft]

Coloradoboy killed this buck before being reincarnated. Maybe,if we're all nice to him, he'll come back and tell us the story.

 

[ColoradoOak]

The widest buck listed in B&C is 49 2/8", killed by Frank Maestas in NM in 1962 (288 6/8"). The greatest spread listed for a typical is 43 4/8", killed by Robert Allred in UT in 1958.

The widest inside spread listed is 36 5/8", killed by Parley Hopkins in ID in 1935. The widest typical inside spread is 36 1/8", killed by Robert Ingels in CO in 1958. Obviously there are many, many bucks not listed in B&C.

 

[BrowningRage]

Honestly, I hope it is real... It'd be a shame to have broken the skull plate on such an amazing buck just to make it wider... Looks ugly as sin now... But, if it were real, I could give a pass on the ugly look... And I mean the antlers, not the old mount...

"Therefore, wo be unto him that is at ease in Zion!" 2 Ne. 28: 24

 

[Pcjr21]

I'm new to the B&C scoring but I thought B&C is mesured to the widest outside edge of the main beams at right angle the the skull, not to the cheaters. I wonder if that is where people are having a difference of opinion. Because some people count the cheater points as total with.