"These were taken from
"The Outdoor Life Book of World Records"
These are the latest
records as far as I can tell according to the source I quoted and as of
the time I put this on the website. I'm sure records get broken quite
frequently. If you have more recent accurate information, please feel
free to email me atspotsb@gmail.com.
Biggest Whitetail
Rack On
September 29, 2003, in Monroe County, Iowa, 15-year-old Tony Lovstuen
killed a huge non-typical whitetail with his muzzleloader
Heaviest Whitetail On
a cold November day in 1926, Carl Lenander Jr. dropped a monstrous
Minnesota buck with a single shot. Field-dressed, the deer weighed 402
pounds. The state Conservation Department calculated its live weight to
be 511 pounds. No heavier whitetail deer has ever been recorded.
Biggest Black Bear A
10-year-old male black bear shot in North Carolina in November 1998
weighed a record 880 pounds.
The biggest of
the big is the Alaska-Yukon moose, the giant creature that lives north
of the 60th parallel in Alaska, the Yukon Territories and the Northwest
Territories. These great beasts are also, by virtue of supply and
demand, the most expensive of the moose to hunt for nonresidents.
A good hunt in a good area
will cost upward of $7,000 and can be as much as $11,000 in a
high-quality trophy area where a hunter might reasonably expect
to see a bull with 70-inch-wide antlers.
In spite of the extra
cost to hunt them, they don't taste any better than their southern
cousins. It's just that there's a lot more of them to taste. A giant
bull can tip the scales at nearly 2,000 pounds and have antlers that
span 80 inches.
The present world record
was taken in 1995 in Alaska and scored 2615/8 B&C points. The
Yukon Territory, however, is a bit of a dark horse where moose
are concerned. Moose simply haven't been hunted much across most
of the Yukon.
For this reason, the
Yukon gets my vote for the Alaska-Yukon moose hunting hotspot.
