Huge Dallas county buck

Is no one going to post the huge buck killed in Dallas county yesterday that’s on BDL’s Gettin Outdoors Facebook page? Think it would impress a few members

I don’t have facebook but I’d love to see it

176 and some change IIRC

Nice

Wow.

That deer in that picture scores 176?

Fantastic buck, congratulations to the hunter

That's the worst picture, by far, that I've seen of it.

To be 176 it has to score close to 170” as a 4x4 and add the drop tine. I don’t usually call out an erroneous score but that deer is WAY bigger than that picture indicates if it touches 170”.

Either way it’s a beast. Congrats to the hunter.

178 6/8 is what the post says. That's a bunch for a 4x4 with a big droptine, but one of the pictures looks possible

😳

This is a much better picture of it:

There ya go.

I may have to join the Matt camp on this. I didn't look that closely to the post on FB, but 178 seems a stretch. I could see 165, maybe. Regardless, that's one heck of an AL deer.

It’s a dang GIANT of an 8, but I’d be willing to bet when it’s officially measured by someone else (not the taxidermist) it’ll fall in the 160s.

Net, and I concur.

That's an absolute hoss.

Stud of a buck.

And I meant Gross. LOL

Matt..did you ever see ham…we had him in the widow of my brothers office..idk if he ever told you the story..but hes the deer that the oilfield guys run over an i sawed his stankin head off with a chainsaw an had to ride back to the chop house in the back of the truck cause it slung rancid nastiness all over me…he was an 8 pt..with an 8in droptine…just lookin at him youda guessed he scored 135…but his rack went straight up..probly wudnt 10-12in wide but his rack was 2ft tall an he had dang near 8in bases an his last mass measurements were 4 an change…he looked like a goofy turd with a droptine but scored like 167…stupid lookin..

I thought so lol.

I’d like to see/hear when it’s officially scored just for curiosity. It is a huge deer. Some times a deer that big can be deceiving in pictures. There’s no doubt I could see him approaching 170”.

What a toad

Art Powers and his dogs tracked him i heard. I called Art for mine last nite but it worked out best way we found it. Art had 3 tracks yesterday and told me his dogs hav found 73 so far this year!! Few years back he told me late jan he had tracked in the 80s so far that year! Thats incredible # - Thats a heck of a lot

No sir I don’t. I did find a matching set of sheds from a 167” 8 point down there in turkey season though. Your goofy brother lost them!!!! One of the fellas down there killed him the following year. He was a GIANT.

Not even close

Matt did you ever know Johnny South that used to run the old Blowhorn hunting club? If so did you ever see his 8 point. It was in the high 160s

Goodness gracious alive what a buck! Congratulations to the hunter.

gross is the only # that matters . nets are for fishes..

that is a damn fine deer, congrats to the hunter

Nice deer. Any idea for an age.

Yeah I’ve held it in my hands. It grossed 168 or 169 and netted 162 as a 4x4. Honestly, it’s one of the most impressive deer I’ve seen in person from AL.

Huge. I didn’t hold it but saw it at his house. One of the most impressive deer I’ve seen

Great deer and it really doesn’t matter but I will say absolutely no way that deer is 176.

The hunters name is Torrey Jones and he's a good guy and probably a better fisherman than he is a hunter. Fun fact about him and his wife is that she is named Tori Jones also. People around town just refer to them as the Torreys.

Thats funny..my wifes cousin..her name is ryan an her husbands name is ryan…ryan an ryan…spelled the same too…

Toad

Congrats to the young man on the kill of a lifetime.

Mass will take a deer higher than you think with scoring too.

Great buck.

If it is higher than 150 I'd be surprised. But, scoring doesnt really matter anyway. Heck of a deer.

No. Guy might say it does, and it’s a fine buck, but it doesn’t score 176. Lol

Definitely can see 160s and 170 is possible. I have seen a couple mid 170s 9 pts in Bama whose 9th point was just a couple inches

Good for you. Ive never seen a 170 8 or 9 pt in Missouri.

😂😂

You should sometime, they are awesome

Who the hell cares what it scores? Awesome buck would love to have shot it.

Exxxaccctly......I would have shot it and still have a big smile on my face....let everyone else argue and guess what it scores.....

I can add a little context to supplement the pictures. The inside spread is 21". The main beams are over 30". That is about as long as the arm of a six-foot-tall man.

I would need to see the score sheet to believe a mainframe 8 would touch 170.

Ok then.... Someone put this thing into Buckscore and let's get a number. I would doubt it would go even 160 but it's a great deer.

I'd need to know who read the tape too.

https://www.deeranddeerhunting.com/content/articles/deer-news/giant-alabama-8-pointer-scores-170

https://realtree.com/deer-hunting/rack-reports/2021/12/02/a-170-illinois-8-named-buster-douglas

https://gon.com/hunting/amazing-eights

Great buck but I don't see it going 170.

George Mann arrowed a 170" 8 pt many years ago.

The three bucks in those articles all appear larger than they one in this thread.

It's a great buck, but I don't see 170", gross or net.

That's a pretty sparse and sandy greenfield to pull in a buck like that haha.

It'll end up grossing 165 plus or minus 2". Also the white sandy soil in that pic doesn't look like the Dallas county soils I am familiar with.

Been a dang fine one last year…

There's a couple places like that. My grandfather's land in Dallas county has some sandy looking areas.

For those ALDeer scoring experts with doubts about a 170” main frame 8 existing in south al i got news for ya.. your dead wrong.. have a buddy that took a 170+ In the dayton area several yrs ago..

Were any of ya'll Deer Hunting in the late 60's to mid 70's?? I witnessed some killed in Dallas county.....the base was a good 2" to 2.25" in Diameter. And MASS.....unreal back then. Biggest I remember had a 25.5" inside spread....a 13 point.

30" main beams might get it there. I have never even heard of 30" main beams, much less in AL.

There have been a couple for sure. Less than 40 170 8 pointers have been entered into the record books. North America ALL TIME!

This guy killed an awesome buck. But to pretend it is in the top 40 all time 8 pointers is just silly.

Congrats to him on killing a dang goodun.... Not so sure about 170 though, I would have to agree with 2Dogs and Matt B. on this one...

Ha!!.....That's what the majority look like.....Don't be fooled by what you see on the internet

Look at some of the pics of 170” 8 points that are documented. This deer is no where close to 170. Low to mid 150s at best. This deer doesn’t have the mass it would take to push him towards 170.

I don’t doubt them. I’ve seen them. I just need to see a score sheet on this one.

Y’all argue over score, BUT….., the main thing to remember - is that every young buck you are willing to pass up in AL, will eventually be this big - so do your part……

I know the camera affects it but DANG!!!

Yep, its just sand deposits from the AL river

It's a goodun. but not 176" of good.
It's a great deer th

I do love aldeer where every buck is 20 inches bigger, but a beautiful woman gets rated 4 points lower.

By the way... did I miss the pics of this guys mom?

That is a much better picture to judge. You can see the main beam length better and that buck has long brow tines. 30" mains are pretty rare. I would have guessed 25-26" mains based on the first photos.

I'd like to pull a tape on those 30" beams.

You wont have to use all 30" of your tape before you get to the end of either one of those beams. They wrap around good but not 30" worth of good. Prob 25 - 26" When I said he was 165 plus or minus 2", I was using 26" for the beam length. Great deer but 30" beams dont happen often, on even world record type deer. I think the longest beams ever recorded on a whitetail were somewhere around 33". For reference, I looked it up: Milo Hanson's world record typical buck's beams were both just a hair over 28". That deer had a 28" inside spread and still did not have 30" beams. Fantastic, one in a lifetime buck anyway you cut it.

Woulda been a goodun next year

Ok I will say it since know one else has. Long arming it Fine Buck whatever is scores.

Maybe it's just me but that buck has a small body, what did it weigh? Reminds me of oakmulgee bucks, big rack small body.

Guy that measured that buck also tells his wife this is 8 inches!!

Texted a buddy in Selma that knows this guy. Said it’s bigger in person,. Long beams, thick mass. The bases are 6 inches. 20 1/2 inside spread. 7 inch drop tine. Beam length is 29 3/4 and 27 1/2.

And you better not tell mine no different

Its a nice buck either way, but his balls aint too big. Youd think with that much horn, he would have a big sack

If he’s putting off those kind of measurements I could see low 170s. I gave him 27” beans and a 21” inside spread with 36” of mass.

PM sent Matt

Great buck but still don't think it is anywhere near 176. I shot a huge 8 in 2017 that had 23 and 24 in. mains with a 20 in. inside and 23 in. outside and it scored 145. Don't see a 30 in. difference there.

The Dallas county buck is an exceptional deer especially as a mainframe 8 and from Alabama. I don’t personally care what it scores and I’d be plum tickled to kill him. However I don’t think most folks fully understand how much bone it takes to make 170’s as a mainframe 8 point. Below is a deer that scored 183 as an 8 point for reference. It takes coke can size mass, long beams and tines to get into those type scores.

It seems to always go in that direction whenever a big buck kill is posted on here.

I’ve seen some other pics of the deer and I can easily see him hitting the 170s. It’s hard for a deer that big to not look that big on a southern framed deer, but this one is a prime example. He may actually be larger than he appears.

That’s a monster deer either way who cares what it scores. I’ll bet the hunter doesn’t. I have never had the opportunity to shoot one anywhere close to that size.

I was thinking of this buck when this thread popped up. One thing on him, though...the 183 inches is net...this deer, killed in Illinois by Jason Sanders, grossed a little over 192".

Here's a better pic that cuts out the funky angles (which makes the buck's right side look a lot weaker than the left)....

Exactly what I’m thinking too! He’s a giant to me regardless of score

To all the ALDeer Monster Buck Slaying, expert scoring superstars.. Feel free to Show us your free range 170" South AL Bucks so we can see what 1 looks like?

Yeah sure and then have some rich guys swoop in and steal the lease.

I coached Torrey in Dixie Senior baseball and played against him for years in softball and I can attest to the fact that he goes at everything hardcore. He grew up that way. His uncle is one of the finest athletes to come from the area. His whole family, immediate and extended, are very competitive people. Torrey was a very good, but undersized QB on a good high school football team. I know Torrey is proud of this deer although it is not much consolation as he recently lost his father, who started his love of hunting, fishing, and ball playing. Congrats to him. He's a good person and if anyone deserves, by virtue of being a good person, and putting in effort, to kill a deer like this, then it is Torrey. Some kill a deer of this caliber through luck and others by effort and persistence. Torrey's was the latter, I can guarentee.

My friend went to his house to clean his heater while they were at the funeral home

I thought I recognized him from the picture but haven’t seen him in a long time. Jawbone when you posted his name it jostled my memory of how I knew him. We attended water school together. He was a super nice guy back then for sure. Thanks for reminding me.

Dang nice buck. Not sure of score but it's a good un for sho

So many of you were right about the deer not grossing 178”. You were low. Took the deer to Alabama Whitetail Museum today. The deer scored 170” typical and 180 1/8” non typical.

That’s truly incredible. Pics don’t do it full justice!😳

It's worth mentioning that Alabama Whitetail Museum and Alabama Whitetail Records are one and the same and there have been numerous threads on here over the years about the people there, doing the scoring, not having a clue. Big differences between the AWR scores and final certified P&Y and B&C scores, on multiple heads. Not saying that is the case here, just mentioning it. Maybe they got that problem fixed. A 180" mainframe 8 is a world class animal, anywhere, much less here in AL. If that's what he officially scores, as Matt said above, the pics dont do it full justice. Fine buck. He's a super stud and congrats again to the hunter.

It's all good... you know I've never seen a 170 inch 8 pointer before. Glad to know Alabama is capable of producing such a monster....

Look at it this way.. . the largest 8 EVER submitted to B&C according to google is 183-1/8. For the longest time the World Record was tied at 180 3/4 with the 3rd being 179.

Woulda have been a World Record next year?

I wonder how many World Class bucks have been shot in Alabama over the year.. based on this thread no telling... maybe I've shot one.

This guy needs to be on the front cover of North American Whitetail.

But something tells me that ain't happening.

Looking at the picture posted I have a hard time not believing my eyes. But, I still want to say congrats to the hunter. It is a heck of a deer.

Hope he wasn't just a real good 3 or 4 year old. We should all learn to pass on that deer. Even if you have NEVER seen a deer that good before, you should let him walk off and let the lucky neighbor shoot him. But you can get the " i passed him" badge of honor... doesn't take a much space on the wall as a shoulder mounted 3-4 yr old deer.

A friend of mine killed a 160 inch 8 point,10 years ago, it's a huge rack. If this deer really scores what they posted, its huge. Congrats!!!

I wouldn’t pass up a 180” deer no matter what age he is. That is a totally different situation than passing a 125-130” 3 year old. But one thing is certain. That deer ain’t 3.

Matt we both know someone that killed a 158 inch eight point and 177 inch nine point .

Yes we do. And I’ve also scored a 167” 8 locally as well.

And how many of them were 3 year olds? 🤣

Heck of a deer. When will it be officially scored?

*posted earlier in the thread*