Post by Woody Williams on Oct 23, 2005 17:34:09 GMT -5
During the first morning of Ohio’s 2005 deer archery season, Mike Rex of Athens, killed a buck that may score in the top 25 of Ohio’s Buckeye Big Buck Club.
The Ohio Buckeye Big Buck Club has recorded more than one-half of all its top 20 entries for both typical and non-typical deer during the last 10 years. Sixty percent of the non-typical and 57 percent of the record typical bucks have been taken since 1994.
Ohio is gaining fame as a trophy buck state. The famous 39-point Beatty Buck was taken in Greene County in the fall of 2000. With a rack score of 304 6/8, it stands as the world's largest non-typical white-tailed deer ever taken by an archer. A white-tailed deer killed last fall in Warren County, known as the Jerman buck, became an Ohio record with a score of 201 1/8. These two bucks and many other trophy bucks have focused national attention from the hunting community on the Buckeye state.
"Ohio has a well-earned reputation as a top state for trophy deer," said Steven A. Gray, chief of the ODNR Division of Wildlife.
"Our deer management program is designed to manage for trophy-sized bucks while controlling the state population through hunting of deer."
The Athens County buck has 17 scorable points and was green-scored in the mid to high 220-inch range (non-typical). Mike is a past president of the Buckeye Big Buck Club and this will be his eighth entry in the trophy deer-scoring club.
