Records & Rarities
World record bucks, fish, and everything in-between.
World record bucks, fish, and everything in-between.
Wildlife Management
New Mexico Hunter Harvests Extremely Rare Piebald Elk
In Corey Sexton’s nearly two decades of guiding, he had never seen anything like the piebald cow elk that stepped into view while glassing this fall. But getting close enough to shoot this uniquely-colored elk would prove more difficult than expected. Sexton started guiding at Land of Enchantment...
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Whitetail
Ohio Hunter Kills One of World's Biggest Whitetails
A hunter in Ohio took down a massive 12-point whitetail in October of this year, and recently released scoring indicates it’s one for the record books. Scorers with Buckmasters Whitetail Trophy Records (BTR) measured Jason Thomas’s enormous typical buck at 208 ⅝”, which makes it the new Buckmasters...
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Wildlife Management
The Mysterious Case of a Hard-Antlered Doe
Tommy Eidson has seen the white underbelly of enough deer to know instantly when its private parts don’t match its skull cap. And so this western Washington (state) hunter stood in disbelief after rolling a mature black-tailed buck onto its back for field dressing and saw an adult doe’s...
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Fishing
Idaho River Produces Two Fishing Records In One Week
Some rivers are known to hold record fish—and the Clearwater in Idaho is one of them. In October, the river kicked out both a state record steelhead and a coho salmon, just a few days apart. Both anadromous (ocean-going) species make spawning migrations up the Columbia and Snake Rivers before...
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Hunting
A Brief History of America's Most Expensive Big Game Tags
How much would you pay to hunt any season, any weapon, any species? Your dream hunt, dream unit, and all the time in the world to get it done. $10,000? $50,000? Try $370,000. That’s how much the state of Oregon received this year after a “governor’s” tag auction for a coveted sheep tag. Most western...
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Fishing
640-Pound Marlin Nets Largest Purse in Competitive Fishing History
Last weekend, a Maryland boat’s 640-pound blue marlin earned its anglers the biggest cash prize of any fish in history. Over $10 million was up for grabs at the 50th Annual White Marlin Open in Ocean City, Maryland, but anglers were having a tough time landing fish that met the 114-inch minimum...
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Conservation News
Wildlife Officials Can't Find Mountain Lion Spotted in Omaha Neighborhood
A home security video taken yesterday in Omaha, Nebraska, appears to show a mountain lion walking down a residential street. The 16-second clip shows the big cat calmly pacing down a sidewalk at night while a thunderstorm lights up the night sky. Posted by Tik Tok user “Nebraska Eddie,” the video...
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Wildlife Management
Watch: Oklahoma Guide Catches Rare Melanistic Paddlefish
Part of what draws us to fishing is the idea that each time we feel a tug, we never know if the fish of a lifetime might be on the other end of our line. This past Monday, May 22, full-time Muskogee fireman and fishing guide Ryan Davison landed what may just be his fish of a lifetime. Davison runs...
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Fishing
Anglers Release Potential World Record Bull Trout
Two anglers released a bull trout earlier this month that almost certainly would have broken Oregon’s state bull trout record and may have been big enough for a new world record. Ryan Mejaski and Joe Wilhite were fishing on the Deschutes arm of Lake Billy Chinook when Mejaski cast his lure into a...
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Wildlife Management
Mississippi Hunter Harvests Once-In-A-Lifetime Turkey
Tyler Anderson was hunting Saturday, March 25, when he bagged the bird of a lifetime, a rare three-bearded, light-colored turkey. The morning started like any other weekend during spring turkey season. Anderson, of Carthage, Mississippi, headed into the woods, just like he had the previous weekend...
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Fishing
32-Year-Old Burbot Record Broken Twice in Two Weeks
The Indiana State record for burbot has been broken not once, but twice in the past two weeks. The first time happened on Dec. 30 when avid angler Scott Skafar caught a burbot that weighed 10.2 pounds on Lake Michigan. This catch broke the previous state record that had been in place since 1990 by...
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Wildlife Management
17-Year-Old Hunter Harvests Rare Albino Antelope
A 17-year-old girl accomplished a one-in-a-lifetime hunt after successfully bagging a rare all-white antelope in Wyoming on October 27. Tristian Olsen of Forestville, New York, was hunting private land in Johnson County when she spotted the albino antelope juxtaposed against the golden hills of...
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