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Warren County buck may be record
300-pound deer's typical rack left scorer 'speechless'
By Jim Morris
Dayton Daily News
Brad Jerman didn't know what he had, but he figured it was "pretty good.
Brad Jerman of Springboro, poses with a 10-point, 300-pound buck that he killed with a cross bow. The deer has a nearly perfect symetrical rack.
Warren County buck may be record
Turns out it was more than that. The whitetail buck he killed with his crossbow on Nov. 8 is potentially a state record.
Jerman first saw the deer the night before when he was videotaping from his tree stand on private property in Warren County.
"I had seen a four-point and took the camera back to make a video for my kids," said Jerman, a 39-year-old IT manager at
Lexis-Nexis. "So I'm taping the small buck and some does when all of a sudden this big 10-point walks across the picture. I couldn't believe it."
After a night with no sleep, the Springboro resident was back in his stand at 3:45 the next morning.
"I waited three hours until first light and it didn't take long after that for him to show up," Jerman said. "I made the shot at 18 yards."
When he took his buck, which was estimated at 300 pounds and 4 ½- 5 ½ years old, to B&B Carryout near Springboro to be checked in, he was told he might have a record. So he called scorers from Boone and Crockett Club and Buckmasters, who confirmed it likely will be a state record typical deer rack.
A typical rack means it is perfectly symmetrical — the same number of points and size on each side. Nontypical racks have all sorts of points, usually with more on one side than the other of different sizes. Typical racks are rarer.
Gary Trent scored it for Boone and Crockett at 202 1/8. That's a green score. Once the rack has dried for 60 days it will be dry-scored. If that score holds up, it would be an Ohio record for typical bucks by one inch. It also would rank ninth in the world for whitetail typicals.
Ed Waite of Dayton scored it for Buckmasters at 183 7/8. Buckmasters uses a different measuring system. Waite said the rack already is a Buckmasters national record for a whitetail taken with a crossbow and ranks fourth for one taken by any means. It also might qualify for the Buckmasters' top whitetail of the year award.
Trent of Waynesville called the buck "phenomenal."
"I get to score a lot of deer, but when I saw this buck for the first time, I was speechless," said Trent, who is president of the Buckeye Big Bucks Club. "It's hard to believe an animal can carry around such a huge rack. Just weight alone would be overwhelming."
He said the outside measurement was just over 26 inches.
If the Jerman buck holds up as a state record, it will join the buck taken by Mike Beatty in 2000 near Xenia as one of the largest bucks taken anywhere. Beatty's nontypical buck, which scored 304 6/8, still ranks as the largest ever taken by bow and arrow. So the state records for typical and nontypical racks could come from areas just a few miles apart.
The state record for typicals is 201 1/8, held by Bill Kontras for a buck taken in Clark County in 1986.Jerman said the interesting thing is that he has never been a trophy hunter. His family has not bought beef since 1995, preferring to eat the venison he provides by hunting each year. Last year he killed and butchered two does.
"I've never been that interested in going after big racks," he said.
But he'll take this one.
Mark
