Board members of the Wisconsin Buck & Bear Membership (WBBC) are set to satisfy on Monday to debate their latest scoring and acceptance of a 49-point buck just lately registered with the membership as a fair-chase kill.
The WBBC board will meet in gentle of the Wisconsin Division of Pure Assets resolution to analyze the legitimacy of the deer, which was registered as a wild kill taken in Marquette County by a muzzleloader hunter final December.
The jaw-dropping 316-inch nontypical buck displayed at this 12 months’s annual Wisconsin deer and turkey expo reportedly got here from one of many state’s most closely hunted counties.
The enormous nontypical was entered and accepted into the Wisconsin Buck and Bear Membership for its all-time itemizing compilation. If ratified by the WBBC, it will simply shatter the state document for a nontypical, free-ranging whitetail.
Marquette County trails solely Marathon, Waupaca, Vernon and Shawano in the case of annual deer harvest. Every of these counties, and Clark, constantly publish deer harvests between 5,000 and seven,000 animals yearly. There are 72 counties in Wisconsin, and state hunters bag greater than 320,000 deer yearly.
Based on sources near the state of affairs, the 49-pointer was registered by a Marquette County resident who didn’t present any path digital camera photographs of the deer.
“Supposedly not one of the neighbors knew the deer existed,” the supply mentioned. “Though one supposedly mentioned he might need seen it throughout a 40-acre discipline through the late summer time. That neighbor reportedly noticed a ‘massive buck with a very white rack,’ (final 12 months)” the supply mentioned.
The 49-pointer was reported as a December muzzleloading kill. Marquette County had the third-most muzzleloading hunters within the state in 2024, simply behind Marathon and Shawano counties. The 49-pointer was certainly one of 90 antlered bucks from Marquette County registered with the DNR.
Based on the Marquette County Customer Bureau, a complete of 6,422 deer had been harvested in Marquette County in 2023. Thirty p.c of the overall was harvested by Marquette County residents. Marquette County is dwelling to about 16,000 residents.
The county’s panorama options interspersed farm nation with some marsh areas and woodlots.
Members of the Wisconsin Buck and Bear Membership’s board of administrators are anticipated to satisfy Monday, April 14, to debate the 49-point buck entry.
Efforts to contact the hunter have been unsuccessful. D&DH will proceed to replace this information story as extra info turns into out there.
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