We love scanned photographs of old giant whitetails. Thanks to Mike C. for posting this one to our BIG DEER Facebook page:
“How would u like to have this giant Iowa buck hanging in ur garage after season? This monster, a rare 7×7 typical, had a 210-inch frame and a final net of 196 4/8. Killed by Michael Edle in SE Iowa in 1989, an extreme cold year (like the winter just passed). If it wasn’t for a couple of sticker points this deer would likely have been Iowa’s state record.
I checked the B&C records. Shot 25 years ago, the amazing Edle Buck is #4 in Iowa and the 46th biggest typical ever shot in North America.
Well, I know for a fact that many Iowans don’t want anyone-poachers included, I suppose- to know what is running around their homes. I have been asked by friends there to not go home and talk about the big ones coming out of certain areas. I know of several giants that haven’t been entered into books. Much of it has to do with the leasing up of some of those lands by out-of-staters. Many Iowa kids won’t have the hunting that their parents, grandparents, uncles, etc. have had if all of the land is gobbled up by others. I completely understand it also. If you look at it from that perspective, it’s totally understandable.
Really?I know there are a lot of great bucks in Iowa obviously, but didn’t think that people would avoid entering their buck into the books. That never made sense to me, because everyone knows that giant whitetails live in Iowa especially southern Iowa so why not enter your buck into the books? Do you think it’s a worry of attracting poachers or something?
Maverick, Just an FYI, there are plenty more bucks of that caliber throughout Iowa that never see the record books. Many Iowans are tight lipped and don’t put their bucks in record books. Can’t really blame them.
Been to that part of the world on a few occasions. Saw one after dark that was very similar to that buck. Crossed the road in front of me after dark. Was ready to move there at that point in time. Clean typical with picket fence row of tines like that. Very clean and mean.
That is one AMAZING typical buck! It’s hard to believe a buck that big has three other bucks ahead of him in that state’s B&C books.