Frederick Kyriss harvested the buck at some point in the '60s, but never had it officially scored. (Pennsylvania Game Commission)
Posted on 01/20/2022 7:27:47 AM PST by SJackson
The PA Game Commission confirmed to Fox News that it doesn't know the exact date of the hunt, but it believes the deer was harvested back in the 1960s
This record was almost lost to history.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission recently released its new Big Game Records book, which contained a surprising entry. While most of the new records were harvested during recent seasons, one of the new entries was likely shot back in the 1960’s.
Frederick Kyriss harvested the buck at some point in the '60s, but never had it officially scored. (Pennsylvania Game Commission)
Bob D’Angelo, PA Big Game Scoring Program Coordinator and senior associate editor for Game News, confirmed to Fox News that the exact date for the new record whitetail in the typical firearms category isn’t known. The book simply lists the harvest as having occurred "prior to 1962."
The deer was harvested by Frederick Kyriss of Montgomery County. Kyriss is deceased, so the exact details of the hunt are lost to time. His widow, who is also deceased, had outlived her husband and gave some details about the buck before she passed.
Kyriss would apparently keep his trophy racks in his garage and wouldn’t get them officially scored.
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in the interest of preservation...My buddy just sold his record deer head to a buddy for his man room along with the articles showing the magnificent deer. better than relatives putting it in a dumpster.
I have “harvested” a lot of deer in my 73 years, but I always held by what my Dad taught me and I taught my son...
You can’t eat antlers...Take the first LEGAL deer you can...
Morbid_
1 day ago
No antler growth hormones in an alfalfa food plot either. Big natural racks are best..
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allhypedup
11 hours ago
I’m partial to big, natural “racks” myself !!! Real partial !!!
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greenie
1 day ago
Dolly Parton had a nice set of antlers.
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“You can’t eat antlers...Take the first LEGAL deer you can...”
No but you can sell them to a Traditional Chinese Pharmacy where they’ll be sliced up for medicinal purposes (real or imagined)
LOL. Poacher wasn’t going to kiss and tell.
Yes, spotlighting deer even back then was frowned upon by the law.
I thought this post was about Hunter Biden/s
“LOL. Poacher wasn’t going to kiss and tell.”
Yeah, like the current Michigan Archery record whitetail that many believe was shot in Jackson county with a ,270 in the middle of the night.
Many even know exactly where and when it was shot!!
That ‘record’ deer stinks on ice to this day.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
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