Illinois hunter bags 51-point buck, possibly one of the ‘largest bucks ever shot

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Illinois hunter bags 51-point buck, possibly one of the ‘largest bucks ever shot

Well, one time I found the antlers from a 16 point buck....



Illinois hunter bags 51-point buck, possibly one of the ‘largest bucks ever shot in America’

By Madeline Farber | Fox News

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Illinois hunter bags 51-point buck


An Illinois hunter’s 51-point kill may be one of the “largest bucks ever shot in America,” the state Department of Natural Resources announced this week.

Keith Szablewski, of Johnston City, shot and killed the deer in November during the first weekend of the shotgun season in the state, WSIL-3 reported.


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"I was just sitting there and I heard the deer behind me," Szablewski, who only began hunting deer four years ago, told the news station.

After making the kill, "I walked up to him, I looked at it and thought, 'What a blessing,'" he added.

"I walked up to him, I looked at it and thought, 'What a blessing.'"

— Keith Szableswki

State conservation officials have since told the man that the buck, which weighed roughly 265 pounds, “could have as many as 51 scorable points," WSIL-3 reported. That’s four more points than a world-recording breaking 47-point buck, which was shot in 2016 by a hunter in Tennessee.

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Szablewski reportedly plans to take the buck’s antlers to the Illinois Deer and Turkey Expo in July. There, a panel of judges will again score the animal and officially determine if it broke the record.

“I pray before I go hunting,” the hunter told the RFD Radio Network. “And on that day, I did pray to God to bring me a buck, and He sure answers prayers.”

Madeline Farber is a Reporter for Fox News. You can follow her on Twitter @MaddieFarberUDK.



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This buck was shot in Marion, IL. I have bow-hunted there a handful of times and taken some nice deer. Didn't think the area could produce a buck like this though, pretty amazing!


Patrick
 
That is amazing, I hope that he get the whole head done in a nice mount. Ive never seen a rack like that, its like an eight point with deformed tips on it.
 
Cool looking buck. Maybe a record for number of points but certainly not in inches. Looks like a small 4x4 frame around 140". Lots of those 51 points wont be over an inch either. Cool though.
 
lots of points but not really that big of a buck...looks like if it didn't have all the junk it would only be maybe a 150 buck...and thats pushing it. :)
 
Nice rack for a non-typical.
Typicyal media hpe though.
I did read the story the other day and thought the guy was pretty lucky.
Actually he is dam lucky, lots of table fare and many nights of telling lies and drinking beer while puffing on a stogie with his hunting buddies in the man cave.
Rob
 
Sure looks like a farm deer. The antler growth looks unnatural, supplemented Farm Deer look the same way. Makes you wonder if one got out of the pen


That was my initial thought too. He got an escapee. I mean, damn good for him either way, but yeah, that’s the kind of rack you see them culturing in game farms with supplements and hormones.
 
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