VERMONT BIG GAME TROPHY CLUB

 The 2009 hunting season results are trickling in and we have scored some great bucks. A few 130" class deer, a 148" typical, two 152" typicals and a 163" nontypical have been reported so far.  Several huge moose have been scored including the Melissa Bovey moose which was recently scored with an official Boone and Crockett score of 185 1/8" net. Melissa's moose has been submitted to Boone and Crockett for entry in the Award's Book.  We have another moose to score that reportedly will score over 185". We will post photos as soon as they are received. Keep checking the photo gallery as it is updated daily. The deer scores can be found on the Deer Records page.

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Youth Hunting Memories Grand Prize Contest Winner - Cameron Pratt of Wells, Vt.

Cameron won a guided bear hunt with PB Guide Service of Maine.  Congratulations Cameron and thanks to Paul Beauregard of PB Guide Service for donating the hunt.

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Youth Hunting Memories Contest County Winners

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"The Milkhouse Buck"

New State Record Nontypical

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2010 BIG GAME AWARDS BANQUET (click here) 

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VERMONT TAXIDERMY CLASSIC (click here)

Huge bucks highlight first days of hunting season

Posted on November 19, 2009

ADDISON COUNTY — Unfavorable hunting conditions led to low numbers for the opening weekend of deer rifle season, but didn’t prevent two hunters from bagging the two biggest bucks taken this decade in Addison County during rifle season.

One, a 236-pound, eight-point buck shot by Shoreham’s Tommy Davis in his home town, tipped the scales at 10 pounds more than the largest deer killed in all of Vermont during any season in 2008. According to the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife Web site, the largest 2008 deer taken weighed 226 pounds and was shot in Jay.

Shoreham’s Mike Mulligan also took home a trophy buck, a 223-pounder with eight antler points also shot in Shoreham. Both animals were weighed in at Buxton’s Store in Orwell, and both exceeded the largest buck previously reported in the Independent this decade during rifle season, a 221-pounder killed by James Demilt in Lincoln in 2001.

Also, a third deer in excess of 200 pounds was killed this past weekend: Jonathan Audy shot an older, three-point buck in New Haven that tipped the Vermont Field Sports scales in Middlebury at 213 pounds.

Weigh station operators generally agree that 2005 regulations banning shooting “spikehorn” deer during the popular rifle season have given hunters more trophy targets.

Szymanowski Buck - 186 0/8"

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For information on scoring and entering your trophy in the records keeping program or website content please contact:

CURTIS SMILEY

DIRECTOR OF BIG GAME RECORDS

curtis@vermontbiggametrophyclub.com

Tel. 802.849.2986