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Rifle Used to Shoot World Record Whitetail: Knight Disc Extreme?
Gun Watch ^
| 28 January, 2017
| Dean Weingarten
Posted on 02/12/2017 4:20:05 AM PST by marktwain
There have been many stories written about the likely new world record non-typical whitetail taken by Stephen Tucker in Tennessee. It has been written about in The Tennessean, The New York Times, North American Whitetail, CNN, Fox News and Field and Stream. Field and Stream is the only place I found a photograph of Stephen with his rifle. The rifle part of the picture was rotated and cropped. You see it above.
None of the articles I have read identify the rifle. Shooters are naturally curious about what hardware was used to take a world record trophy.
I believe the rifle used was a Knight Disc Extreme. It is likely a .50 caliber, which seems to be the most popular. You can see a close up of a stainless version of the .50 caliber Knight Disc Extreme in the picture above. On this rifle the scope is a Simmons, while Stephen Tucker's rifle appears to sport a Leupold, identified because of the gold ring. The stocks on the rifles are very close. The "checkering" pattern is the same, even if the camo pattern is a bit different.
The action, trigger guard, trigger, and scope base placement all seem the same.
I am convinced the rifle is a Knight, but there have been some nomenclature changes over the years. The action looks the same as on the Disc Extreme rifles.
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Gun Watch
TOPICS: Hobbies; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: banglist; deer; rifle; worldrecord
This is likely the world record non-typical whitetail. The whitetail deer is the most hunted big game in the United States.
Hunters and shooter want to know what rifle was used to take the animal.
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posted on
02/12/2017 4:20:05 AM PST
by
marktwain
To: marktwain
Rifle models can and do have small changes many times in their life.
To: marktwain
Pyrodex or black powder? Bullet weight? If a scope was used, I’m sure it was carefully measured. I used to have a black powder pistol, but I never hunted with a black powder rifle.
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posted on
02/12/2017 5:36:18 AM PST
by
MikeSteelBe
(We will be safe from terror when we treat Islam like postwar Germany treated Nazism)
To: marktwain
Why doesnt someone just ask the hunter? Is he unavailable?
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posted on
02/12/2017 5:48:52 AM PST
by
bk1000
(A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory.)
To: bk1000
Maybe he does not want to give out the information.
Maybe he would like some money for an endorsement.
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posted on
02/12/2017 6:05:15 AM PST
by
marktwain
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To: MikeSteelBe
I believe “Disc” refers to a compressed type of Propellant.
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posted on
02/12/2017 11:02:03 AM PST
by
Big Red Badger
(UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
To: marktwain
Rifles are naughty; all non-vegetarian Citizens must procure their meat at the supermarket.
This deer may have been Bambi’s father.
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