Depends which side of the Iron wall you sit.
Ricky, Is this the supposed Missouri State record? If so, what did it score? Was it ever entered in their record book? How old was he when he killed it? Just curious. I can't keep them all straight.Just to clear up a few things, Mitch used a Ben Pearson recurve and a Pearson Deadhead broadhead to kill his first buck, a Missouri State record at the time, pictured below.
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What book did these pics come from? How old was he when he killed this one?Maybe you're mixing up 2 different stories? The 200"+ non-typical you're referring to was apparently shot with a field point (accidentally), and there are indeed pictures of it (or at least of the mount).
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Ricky, Is this the supposed Missouri State record? If so, what did it score? Was it ever entered in their record book? How old was he when he killed it? Just curious. I can't keep them all straight.
Does he name THREE state record deer in Missouri in this video?you can see the missouri buck in this video, just the rack with the broadhead mounted under it.
not a fully mounted head.
So there was 2 state record bucks from Missouri before the age of 15? Were any of these officially entered?According to Dan Bertalan's book, Whitetail Masters, Mitch shot that buck in 1958 when he was 9 years old. The buck measured 153". When Mitch was 14 years old he killed his second record buck which measured 208-6/8 as a non-typical and 188 typical. Both bucks were killed in Missouri. In between those bucks he killed some smaller bucks and does.
I don't know. Did an official state record keeping organization even exist in the 50's or 60's? I doubt it.So there was 2 state record bucks from Missouri before the age of 15? Were any of these officially entered?
Then simply man, they're not state records.I don't know. Did an official state record keeping organization even exist in the 50's or 60's? I doubt it.
So lets say he did somehow kill multiple state records with a bow before he could drive... Does that signal to any of you who hunt big deer that was some kind of prodigy with a sixth sense who knew how to find the biggest deer in the state as a child, and that later the biggest deer in michigan history happened to be across the street from his house at an airport?
Not just a consistent big buck killer though, killing the biggest ever multiple times starting from early childhood? Just the odds of being remotely CLOSE in distance to that many state records of ALL of the deer in a state in all of history feels astronomical right? And killing a wider deer by 30% than any ever seen in history in Michigan? The margins just don't make sense and as ole @Nutterbuster said, Eberhart's deer are all on display for you to see and have been scored and examined rather than hidden away and lost in house fires....
Edit: by the way John Eberhart, a true killer and local, also thinks he's full of it