The antlers “are in a very safe place, and they are not on display,” Tucker said. Tuckers 2016 buck from Sumner County helped to land Tennessee into the top state stats as a bonus state. “Unless he drops it and something breaks off.” “The score might change a bit, but this young man will hold the world record,” Cross said. There will be further measurements of Tucker’s deer in 2019, at the regular meeting of the Boone and Crockett Club, the most renowned group of record keepers. But, he added, “Tennessee has never been known as a big buck state.” Cross said that Midwestern states like Illinois, Iowa and Kansas would be more likely spots for a 300-inch deer.Ī 300-incher in Tennessee? “For deer hunters, you hear things like that and go, naaaah,” Cross said. “It’s a great state to hunt deer in we have liberal limits and a long season,” Cross said. “I was blown away.”īig bucks are not common in Tennessee. “When I first saw him, I said I wanted to hunt it,” he said. Tucker first spotted the deer before rifle season began, on land his family leases to farm in Gallatin, northeast of Nashville. Tucker’s kill is the “deer story of 2016 - and maybe the deer story of the decade,” Field & Stream proclaimed. For General Information Contact: TWRA Deer Registry Office. The biggest rack ever measured was 333 ⅞ on a deer in Missouri, but that was a pickup, or found deer, not one shot by a hunter. You Ought to Have That One Scored Previous Next. The previous record, 307 ⅝, was set in Iowa in 2003 by 15-year-old Tony Lovstuen, also with a muzzleloader. That made it the highest-scoring buck ever shot by a hunter. The planning process, which began in May of 2017, has been very inclusive of key stakeholders, including commissioners, agency partners, hunters, farmers, and.
When the full rack was scored, the total was 312 ⅜ inches.