This picture is of a buck taken by Roger Jarvis, coach of the 14U Banditos baseball team out of Houston. He scored 316 5/8” and was killed in 2008 in northern Missouri (Free range). It is still being researched for the books (where it was killed etc.). It is number 2 in the US. and number 1 ever taken by a hunter. The other deer that actually makes this a number 2 was found not killed by a hunter.
Boone and Crockett has an update to this story. Sadly, this one won’t get B&C certification.
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4 responses to “Roger Jarvis of Houston bags a Trophy Buck in Missouri.”
wow
Amazing what money will buy these days; VERY nice buck. How long was this fella penned up and fed “quick grow protein”?
Having killed my share of elk/bucks/etc; I’ve gone to compound bow; now recurve.
Give some thought to going with me to a remote wilderness area in Idaho/NM/Washington State/even Montana bow hunting for big game: elk, bear, deer; your call. Love to watch you trail one and call it in.
Almost forgot, we have to carry in what we eat and live out of. You will have to get rid of some of that “affulent fat” you carry around. Ha.
Walk in beauty,
Buck Sheward
That dude is a corporate crook and lier… Coke hunter maybe…. lol!
Buck Sheward comment… Pretty harsh and hateful towards someone you don’t know (I assume)… your “Im a big bad hunter” attitude brings with it a flaw. As a person matures and develops into an accomplished hunter, you are absolutely correct in asserting that there is typically a movement to adding difficulty to the hunt to keep it challenging. walking back from rifles to compound bows and then back to a recurve is clearly a sign of someone being board with there ability to easily take average game with all that modern technology has to give. Taking a tarpon on rod and reel is great, but take the same on lightweight tackle or a fly rod… now your a real man, right? Anyone can catch trout with a spinning rod, but match the hatch and fight one poetically on a 2 pound tippet.. now you are a true master. Hunting in the remote wilderness is also very commendable, but do you really think that you have found the one right answer? Is it that black and white? Should you try to shame someone that has bagged a monster and assume that it must be a big sham? Chasing bigger and bigger game is the same as using less and and less sophisticated weapons. If affluence to you means wealth and using that wealth to up your game or to chase bigger trophies is something to be ashamed of.. I disagree. Work is work. If a physically difficult hunt that was unlikely to be successful was inherently more sportsmanlike than a hunt in an area known to have monster animals, then where does it end. Is hunting for months on end, in the harshest landscape, without food or water, and in an area that has no animals at all, the recipe for the ultimate consummate great white hunter?? Just because someone kills a monster, don’t criticize out of jealousy.. If you can truly afford to hunt any way at all, you have owned land and managed game, and you still choose to hunt small animals with maximal effort then good. If by chance this man’s trophy dwarfs yours and you haven’t worked out the wealth aspect to allow you other options, then you have no place to take the easy way out and pop off little snide remarks without a clue. True maturity is to appreciate all aspects of hunting and to recognize that it is not black and white.