AZ ANIMALS • February 9, 2025
There are about 320,000 deer in Maine. According to the Boone and Crocket Club, in 1965 Ronnie Cox earned the record for the largest whitetail deer harvested in Maine’s history. His trophy scored 193-2/8. Then-teenager Hill Gould shot the non-typical whitetail deer more than a century ago, in 1910. His buck’s antlers earned a score of 259. Word spread pretty quickly about the deer’s impressive and usual rack, but it didn’t enter the Boone and Crockett record books officially until 1994.