Monster buck falls short of record
by Steve Ottman Falls News Correspondent
Sheboygan Falls hunter Michael Gregoire had to wait 60 days to find out whether the 12-point, 240- pound whitetail buck he bagged Nov. 5, 2009, would set a new state and world record.
Gregorie downed the huge buck on his brother’s 160-acre farm, west of Sheboygan Falls. Many who saw the deer in person called it a “monster buck.”
The 38-year-old Gregorie, who has bow-hunted for 14 years, found out Thursday, Jan. 7, that his famed buck was judged non-typical by a licensed scorer for Pope and Young.
The massive rack was judged to be non-typical by Mark Miller of Fond du Lac. It measured 175 3/8 inches of mass, well short of the state-record buck shot by Wayne Schumacher, which measured 243 6/8 inches (the largest non-typical buck shot with bow and arrow).
Based on the measurement of 175 3/8 inches, the buck included 16 ½ inches of abnormal points. Those abnormal points led many of the people who had seen pictures of the deer on the Internet to believe that the deer would be non-typical. The rack was unbalanced and had too many abnormal points.
Most of the deductions came from comparing the right main beam to the left side, the circumference difference and the measurement of the forked brow tine.
While it was not a world or state record, the buck’s score was good enough to place second in Sheboygan County in the Wisconsin Buck and Bear Club, as the biggest buck shot with a bow and arrow.
Darren Winters shot the top buck in county history, which had a 201 5/8-inch measurement.
