He made a quick shot, missing cleanly, and his rifle jammed before he could get off a second. He’d just gotten to the stand around 4:30 when he spotted the buck and four does 200 yards away.
Get home now!” Mason (left) was hunting in an old water tank on the family farm that has been modified to function as a deer stand. The message was blunt and straight to the point, Petrzilka recalls. Kevin Petrzilka was mending fence with his wife and his son Dillon, 20, when he got a call from his son Mason, 17. 19 near Brainard set the Nebraska state record for a typical whitetail rack? It may all depend on the G-3s. Could this 200-class 17-pointer shot Nov.
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“In the end I felt that they met the criteria stated in the measuring manuals and that’s what I followed to make my judgment.” In addition to the measurements we reported in our original story of the hunt ( which you can read here by clicking through the following slides), the buck boasts a tip-to-tip spread of 15-6/8 inches, and a greatest spread of 24-6/8 inches. “I eyeballed it for a long time,” he says. You’ve got to control your emotions.” The main question–whether the G-3s would be judged typical or nontypical–took up much of Krueger’s time and attention during the scoring process. It obviously doesn’t happen very often that you run across a buck like this-you just get floored. “I think it’s awesome: The largest American typical tagged by a hunter in 39 years. “He thought it was phenomenal the whole family does.” Though he’s measured hundreds of racks since the 1990s and believes each is a trophy worthy of respect, Krueger admits to getting a special charge out of this one when he got the call soon after Petrzilka recovered the bruiser. “He was relieved to get the final official score,” Krueger said. Krueger (left) called Petrzilka recently to break the good news. Perhaps most impressive, in these days when records seem to fall every season, Petrzilka’s buck is the biggest typical taken in the United States in 39 years. The buck is only the 16th typical to score better than 200 since Boone & Crockett started keeping records in 1830, and it ties for the 7th best typical all-time. There were 793 antelope harvested, including 509 in the firearm season, 185 in the archery season and 99 in the muzzleloader season.As our deer expert Scott Bestul pointed out in his Whitetail 365 blog, Petrzilka has earned a far greater distinction than a state record. A record 166 elk were harvested - 77 bulls and 89 cows. Record numbers of youth (11,255) and nonresident (15,300) permits were sold. A record 75 percent of whitetail bucks and 83 percent of mule deer bucks taken were age 2 or older. Age structure of whitetails and mule deer bucks continues to improve.
The first year of the $6 youth deer permit was popular, with 11,255 permits sold.
There were 25,000 deer checked via telephone or online. Electronic checking helped wildlife managers obtain harvest information faster. Deer hunter success rates were 68 percent for firearm, 40 for archery and 37 for muzzleloader. The number of firearm permits sold increased while the number of archery and muzzleloader permits sold decreased from 2009. A record 141,573 deer permits were sold. Here are other highlights to the 2010 big game hunting seasons: Bonus tags, antlerless-first mandates in some units, additional hunting opportunities, and $6 youth permits all contributed to the antlerless whitetail harvest. The antlerless whitetail harvest increased by nearly 9,000 from 2009. While a record 37,967 whitetail bucks were killed, a record 39,198 antlerless whitetails also were killed - marking the first time the antlerless whitetail harvest surpassed whitetail buck harvest. The total deer harvest during the 2010 season was 88,034 (77,028 whitetails and 10,709 mule deer). That went a long way to help Game and Parks, which has a goal of reducing the whitetail population in eastern Nebraska by killing more antlerless deer. LINCOLN, NE - Nebraska deer hunters produced a big year in 2010, setting records for overall and antlerless whitetail harvest, according to the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.