Ken Murphy texted that his son Mike arrowed a 15-point buck last Wednesday that green scored 208 inches.
Mike, of Lynnwood, used a Mathews bow to arrow it in central Illinois.
“The buck is a main-frame 10 with 15 scorable points,” Ken texted.
Deer antlers are scored by adding and subtracting various measurements in inches. To be officially scored, the antlers must dry for 60 days.
Murphy’s buck should be an easy entry into the record books of both the Pope and Young Club (keeper of archery records) and the Boone and Crockett Club (keeper of big-game records).
BOTW, the celebration of bucks and their stories (the stories matter) around Chicago outdoors and beyond, runs Wednesdays in the paper Sun-Times.
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