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Another Ohio monster buck, number 1 or 2 nontypical (depending on which record book) was xgunned by an amish kid on opening day of bowseason a few years ago, if I remember right... I have pix of it somewhere, but anyhow here's a link to the latest monster:
https://www.outdoorlife.com/hunting/ohio-trophy-buckmasters-record-buck/
Am not into the buckmasters thing, but wonder what this buck scores B&C...
"Crossbow Hunter Tags 240-Inch Buck, One of the Biggest in Ohio Buckmasters Records"
Yeah Cliff, that was the one I was talking about above... Lemme look, I have pix.... Here I go again looking back over 20+ years of computer files...8^)
Net score 291-2/8", I believe it is Ohio's all time number 2 nontypical behind the Beatty Buck...
If I remember right an amish kid xgunned it from like 70 yards away in a bean field, as Cliff said... I think it was killed on their family farm and they had been watching in the field all summer... They knew it was there...
You're welcome Cliff, kinda been keeping pix and short info on exceptional bucks that went viral through the years...
Attached is another amish kill Pat...8^) Anybody remember this one... It was all over magazine covers when I was a teen... The topic buck of the first post kinda reminds of this buck... I remember this buck being in full body mount view in a shop window display in Berlin, Ohio before the shooter went to court... The last time I seen the rack was hanging in the ODNR district office in Akron a few years ago, they must have recaped it... The article tells the story...
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One article says he killed an 8-point in the morning then killed the 26-point during evening stand... Hmmm, am guessing he knew or seen the big guy in the area, maybe a hot doe keeping them there... But I forget the story and the discussion we had here...
Aged at 4-1/2 and scores 228 7/8"... Here's a linky:
https://www.coshoctontribune.com/story/news/local/2018/12/27/amish-man-fined-28-000-poaching-26-point-buck/2416482002/
I remember we had good conversation here when it happened... I was just reading a couple articles about it and they dropped the hammer on the guy.... Like a $27,000 fine, I think he spent 60 days in jail, and lost hunting privilege's for a couple years, and probation... When I get home, will post some links...
Another instance of the ODNR confiscating high scoring bucks if illegal or if you don't dot your "I"s and cross your "T"s...8^) They are notorious for doing so...
The most best information on the Coshocton buck I posted in the link above from the Coshocton Tribune... After re-reading it, I guess the guy avoided jail time since he paid the $28,741.46 restitution, fines and court costs:
https://www.coshoctontribune.com/story/news/local/2018/12/27/amish-man-fined-28-000-poaching-26-point-buck/2416482002/
"Junior L. Troyer, 43, 6702 Township Road 113, Millersburg, entered pleas of no contest in Coshocton Municipal Court recently to one count each of providing false information while game-checking a deer, attaching a game-check number to a deer that was originally issued to another, taking more than one antlered deer in a licensed year, possessing deer or deer parts without valid tag or permit and attaching an anterless doe game-check number to an antlered deer. All are third-degree misdemeanors.
Junior Troyer of Millersburg was fined more than $28,000 for poaching a 26-point buck on Nov. 7 in Coshocton County. Troyer had shot an 8-point buck earlier in the day and later shot the larger buck. Judge Tim France fined Troyer $150 for each charge and $87 in court costs. Additionally, Troyer was ordered to pay $27,904.46 in restitution to the State of Ohio based on the value of the deer.
Troyer was also to have his hunting privileges revoked for two years and serve 60 days in jail. France said he would suspend the jail time and reduce the revocation to one year if Troyer paid the total $28,741.46 in fines in full. The municipal court website lists all fines as having been paid.
According to court records, Troyer had shot an 8-point buck earlier in the day on Nov. 7. He went back out hunting in the evening and shot the 26-pointer.
Troyer decapitated both deer and tagged in the body of the 8-pointer with the head of the 26-pointer. The next morning he checked in the headless body of the 26-pointer as a doe. He threw the head of the 8-point buck in a ditch, which was later recovered by authorities.
Here is another linky:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/12/27/amish-man-fined-poached-buck/2427796002/
Old Reb - The one link indicated it had a 24" inside spread, but didn't give outside spread...
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And get this,,, it's an amish bowkill...8^)))
https://www.northamericanwhitetail.com/editorial/ultra-wide-whitetail-arrowed-ohio-amish-country/370700
Gotta be awful hungry to horse and buggy to the grocery store in this fridged weather... Guess they live about 3 or 4 miles away...
