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Brewster drew his bow, made good on the shot, and not only tagged the biggest hunter-killed non-typical whitetail to date, but also the new all-time P&Y world-record. The incredible buck...
No. 2: It was 1926 when a young Carl J. Lenander Jr. killed a colossal buck while hunting near the shores of Lake Superior in the legendary Minnesota Arrow Head Region. This deer pulled the scale to an incredible 402 pounds dressed weight.
The largest typical whitetail buck ever killed came from Saskatchewan, Canada during a deer drive. Four hunters worked together as a team to push the buck from its hiding spot and Milo Hanson was the lucky hunter to pull the trigger, but not before a bullet clipped the right main beam.
From what we can gather, the heaviest whitetail ever shot was killed by a bow-hunter, John Annett of Ontario, in 1977. The deer field dressed 431 pounds on government-certified scales. That would have given it an estimated live weight of more than 540 pounds.
A very solid northeastern deer, the Ronnie Cox buck was taken in Aroostook County in 1965 and holds onto a slim 4/8-inch lead over the No. 2 buck, which was killed in 1920.
The big buck scored 315-1/8 inches and held the non-typical buck world record until Luke Brewster killed his Illinois giant just two years later. 4. Butcher Buck
The most celebrated record in all of hunting is, without question, the world record typical whitetail buck, held by Milo Hanson. He killed the buck in November 1993, which means that if it survives this fall, it will see a 30-year anniversary.
This animal took the bowhunting world by storm when it was harvested in Illinois back in 2018. This incredible non-typical whitetail is not just the archery world record—it's also the largest wild whitetail deer ever killed by a hunter with any weapon, period.
For two years, Stephen Tucker held the crown of having killed the biggest free-ranging whitetail of all time before Brewster’s Illinois giant fell. Tucker killed his buck on his family’s small farm during Tennessee’s November muzzleloader season.
What’s more, the Brewster buck is also now the largest whitetail ever killed by a hunter anywhere in the world, topping Stephen Tucker’s 47-point Tennessee monarch , a Nov. 2016 buck that scored 312 0/8 inches.