Pless enlisted family and friends to help drag and load his huge buck. It broke the 50-year record held by the #2 Spot! press releases; events; gallery . Season 2, Episode 15You're about to see potentially the largest framed whitetail buck ever harvested on planet earth! “As I drew back, I prayed to God that I wouldn't miss and then I let the arrow go,” said Pless. No one sets out to break a record of bone mass that establishes a mark that becomes the pinnacle for Empire State … As Kajetan "Whitey" Sovinski prepared to go hunting on the morning of Dec. 5, 2002, he joked to his wife that he would kill the biggest buck in the woods for her today. “I looked at him through my Vortex binoculars — I use the 10x42 Diamondback HD set — to make sure it was him, then I took couple of pics and sent them to my wife and told her not to come back here because he was here.”. “I know it’s been bad here,” said Pless. That record belongs to Mel Johnson and has stood since 1965. The Johnny King buck is the biggest typical whitetail of all time, according the Northeast Big Buck Club, a group that uses the same measuring system as the prestigious Boone and Crockett Club, except that NBBC does not use “net” scores in its final tallies. New York's Record Whitetail Bucks. About 115 yards away, the big whitetail had just followed a doe to the grassy edge of the cornfield. Brian Butcher had low expectations when he climbed into a deer stand on the evening of October 11, 2019. ©2021 Outdoor Sportsman Group. New York has a new state-record non-typical archery buck. typical deer; non-typical deer; black bear; how to enter your trophy; award banquet; news. Pless told her come on back, and he’d wave to them from afar. Estimated Weight On Hoof: 540-Lbs. It’s official. Composing himself — Pless admitted he started shaking like a leaf after he cut the shot loose — the archer waited until dark. And Pless wasn’t the only whitetail hunter to arrow state-record buck in New York last season. Following preliminary measurements that put the whitetail in the running for the new world’s record, Hanson's home was under siege from journalists, promoters, antler collectors, and well-wishers. This means you have the option to read your magazine on most popular phones and tablets. All North American Whitetail subscribers now have digital access to their magazine content. Pless never got the chance to stand up. “I even asked someone for a pen five times. “My grandpa was a good deer hunter, and last week, my uncle Glenn gave me some of my grandfather’s stuff because he thought I might like to have it. On Sept. 27, Wayne Long of Watertown, N.Y., arrowed this potential record buck in the town of Rodman. New York has a new state-record non-typical archery buck. A short while later, the buck reappeared with a couple of other does and chased one around briefly as the group slowly advanced in the bowhunter’s direction. “But it’s been really exciting, and I’ve been telling others that I think my grandfather was either sitting beside me or was up above watching over me when I shot this deer. Years ago, the late hunter was passionate about his own pursuit of New York’s big whitetails, even taking a record-book giant with a shotgun. First, for his wife and her daily work from home, along with her also trying to help her husband get into the woods to pursue his outdoors passion. When you’ve just shot a buck that could be a new archery state record — in the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, no less — that’s understandable. I bet if all the states were to able to break their total buck harvests down in to age class (impossible I understand) KY would rate very poorly over all. Age 3.5 /4.5 estimated by biologists. “And I guess it has, because I’ve even had people approach me when I’ve been out and about. “Since the Bills were winning, I said to my wife, ‘You know what? The Hunt for New York State’s Record Non-Typical Whitetail. If taking a world-class buck has been your lifelong dream, then you can give yourself a fighting chance to capture the goal by hunting in states that annually produce dozens and dozens of bucks scoring better than 170 inches. As it turns out, I had the pen in my hand all along.”. The whitetail deer is the most popular game species in the United States. “But I don't know anybody who has gotten it and suffered from it — at least no one in my family, thank the Lord.”. Today we have a new typical archery whitetail record buck from WYoming county Officially scored and certified at 191 2/8 # 25 all time typical in USA. One was the other day in the parking lot of a gas station. Hunter killed bucks and … “I was at home watching the kids while my wife ran some errands, and I really had no plans to hunt that day,” said Pless. The guy looked at me and said ‘Hey, is that you?’ And I said, ‘What do you mean?’ And then he said, ‘Are you the guy who shot that big deer?’ as he pulled his phone out and showed me a photo of me and my deer. Take five, fellas. He looked big in the pictures, but in person, he was just huge.”. It’s not something I ever dreamed would happen.”.