Thanks everyone for the comments! If you think about the bucks that were taken back then, it is just incredible. Just in NM alone, when my uncle took this buck in 1964, if you look at the 3 year span from 1963 - 1965, the bucks that were taken in NM alone were incredible; the Mundy buck, and both NM state records (Typ and Non-typ) were taken in that time frame. My uncle even tells me that 30" bucks, while never really "common," weren't what they were looking for back then. They had their sights set higher, and it wasn't a long shot. Must have been nice to walk through the forest back then with a deer tag in hand!