yesterday a customer came in with a massive shed antler he wanted to trade. He's in his 70s and a guy I've know for years. He's a custom knife and furniture maker, former military, straight shooter who has always been very honest. So I traded a few things for the antler bc it was the biggest one I'd ever seen. He told me he found it ~15 years ago around one of the lakes in central texas where he used to hunt. He has talked to me before about hunting there so I know that part is true. he would shed hunt to use the antlers on his knife handles. He swore he found it on low fence area and it did not come off a high fence ranch.
Anyway, I'm not a professional B&C sorer, but I just measured the thing at somewhere around 130" which as far as I can tell would be one of the biggest nontypicals in texas history. It has a decent sized tine broken off too. There's 2 long tines with a common base and I'm not sure how that should be categorized. If they're both typical tines it has over a 100" typical frame but I counted one of the matching 11" tines as nontypical.
anyway, I guess I just have to believe what he says is true. I can't imagine there's any way to authenticate where it came from.
25.5" main beam
24" of mass
42" G1-g5
40ish inches of nontypical tines
14 scorable points
The pic doesn't do it justice but it is massive.
Anyway, I'm not a professional B&C sorer, but I just measured the thing at somewhere around 130" which as far as I can tell would be one of the biggest nontypicals in texas history. It has a decent sized tine broken off too. There's 2 long tines with a common base and I'm not sure how that should be categorized. If they're both typical tines it has over a 100" typical frame but I counted one of the matching 11" tines as nontypical.
anyway, I guess I just have to believe what he says is true. I can't imagine there's any way to authenticate where it came from.
25.5" main beam
24" of mass
42" G1-g5
40ish inches of nontypical tines
14 scorable points
The pic doesn't do it justice but it is massive.
