Maryland Buck
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From the Baltimore Sun
Hunter shatters state buck record
'Stunning' total antler score exceeds 1987 mark by 40 inches
By Candus Thomson
Sun reporter
November 30, 2006
Last year, Bill Crutchfield Sr. made a run at the big bucks in
Maryland's "Diamond Jim" $1 million fishing
tournament.
This year, his son got a different kind of big
buck - a deer with antlers massive enough to put most chandeliers to
shame and obliterate a state record almost two decades old.
"He does the fishing, and I do the hunting,"
said Bill Crutchfield Jr., as he waited yesterday afternoon for state
certification.
With a crowd of camera-phone-toting hunters and Department of
Natural Resources officials watching,
Crutchfield
hauled the carcass from the refrigerator at Hitch**** Taxidermy in
Severn for the tale of the tape.
The buck had 13 points on each 25-inch antler.
The entire rack spanned slightly more than 21 inches tip to tip.
After measuring all the antler tines and space between the prongs,
Crutchfield's total score was 268 4/8 inches, breaking the mark set in
1987 of 228 4/8 inches (antlers are measured in 1/8th-inch

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