“We believe this is the heaviest whitetail ever shot anywhere,” Elliot wrote me. Reliable weight records of big deer are not too common, partly because all scoring is now done according to antlers. In ...

According to the report, U.S. hunters shot more than 3 million whitetail bucks during the 2023-24 season and set a record for the most mature bucks in the harvest. January and February for a deer ...