https://pope-young.org/blog/9571/Mule-Deer-Coming-in-as-New-World-Record
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Roy are there requirements or limits on how the velvet is preserved? is faux velvet allowed. Just wondering on the varying thickness at different stages of antler growth. And if Faux velvet is thicker.
—jJim
More recently, some of the leadership within the organization felt it was unfair to request that velvet trophies be entered then not recognize them as a normal entry. Velvet entries have been treated like lessor trophies since we started accepting them. Not anymore.
Eventually, the Club did what I think is the right thing by allowing for WR's in hard horned and velvet entries.
When this buck was killed it was about 13" larger than the hard antlered WR at the time. Sometimes it takes a while but eventually we end up getting it right.
Any/all velvet animals that are within the top 5 of their respective category must be panel measured for verification. This includes potential world records, of course.
Special panels like this one (panels outside the normal 2-year recording period) are for pending world records only. The remaining four animals (top 5) were invited to panel in Reno (2021) and will get one more opportunity (Reno 2023) to be verified. If they do not get paneled in 2023, they will be removed from the records program until they are verified.
Several top end velvet animals were sent in to panel in Reno 2021…..we are awaiting the remainder in 2023 to get all of them verified. Once 2023 panel is done, we will only be dealing with those animals entered in the next two-year recording period. Hope that makes sense.
