YOUR BIGGEST ANTELOPE

[Big Browns]

I love your goat collection. I can't wait to have one of my own:)

[bran918]

My 18a muzzleloader from several years ago:

 

 

Dad's 10 rifle from a long time ago:

 

[CouesWhitetail]

Wow, some great antelope! Thanks for sharing everyone!

[HEADACHE]

my one and only, 19a, 80" on the nose

 

[Don Martin]

I found this buck a few years in eastern AZ and my brother smacked him with a muzzleloader! I have about 3 hours of video of this buck, who we named "Lonesome" due to the fact he never stayed with any other antelope for very long.

Just before he got him, two poachers shot at him with a 22-250 and knocked off the tip of one of his horns!

We found a 22 caliber bullet hole through the top of the prong and through the top of the horn where the bullet had knocked off about 1.5 inches of the tip!






Still was a great buck!

Don Martin
Arizona Wildlife Outfitters

[Don Martin]

Here is another one that my friend and client Dan Nelson got about two miles from my brother bagged the one above.

 

Another nice buck!

 

 

This unit used to hold some really nice bucks!

 

Don Martin

Arizona Wildlife Outfitters

 

[My Rights As An American]

Lots of amazing trophies here. Don, that last one you posted looks SO cool to me!!!

[Don Martin]

Definitely the tallest one that Mr.Nelson has taken, He also hunted with us on a muzzleloader antelope hunt in Unit 18A and took a heavy B&C buck there!

 

Man those were the days....

 

Shame these two units have turned into "Nestervilles" and the antelope for the most part have been lost!

 

Don Martin

Arizona Wildlife Outfitters

[highsierra]

I have a great appreciation for the speedgoat. Have loved hunting them off and on over the last 20 years. Have taken most of my bucks in WY but was fortunate enough to draw in Nevada two years ago. That hunt produced my best...an 80 1/8" buck. Still waiting to draw a tag here in my home state of CA as well as in AZ. Maybe someday....

 

-HS

 

[Outdoor Writer]

My collection on the walls, minus one I shot in NM but didn't have mounted. None of them have been measured since I don't "do" scores -- just a few average bucks.

 

 

 

And this one -- a bow kill with each side measuring 21 in. -- belongs to Corky Richardson. You can see a repro of it in Cabela's.

 

 

[Mocha1545]

WOW!

[AZkiller]

I would have loved to smoke that buck on Glassford. To see the video of him walking around with those 21in horns is pretty incredible.

[Don Martin]

Just curious, what did he score?

 

Don Martin

 

What an incredible antleope!

[Outdoor Writer]

Don,

 

If my notes are still current, Corky's buck grossed 94-1/8 and had a 90 2/8 net score. It is the SCI # 1 archery buck, and I think it's #3 in P&Y behind Marvin Zieser at 91 4/8 and Les Shelton's 90 6/8-inch buck. Not sure where it is in B&C.

 

And unless something has changed lately, it is the tallest buck ever tagged. Only one other buck in any of the record books has topped the elusive 20-inch mark. That buck, reportedly killed in 1899 and now part of the National Collection, measured 20-1/8 inches and 20 inches and currently ranks as No. 3 in the world.

 

Here's one of the articles I wrote about it before it was officially measured by the P&Y panel. This is a reprint of the article that appeared in Rocky Mountain Game & Fish magazine with Corky on the cover.

World-Record Antelope

[Don Martin]

Tony:

 

Thanks for the info on Corky's buck! I read your story you wrote on the hunt, awesome!

 

Here is my best muzzleloader story about a giant buck.

 

A number of years ago, while hunting a lady hunter named Brenda Cagle in Unit 18A on a muzzleloader hunt, I found the tallest buck I have ever seen in Arizona. We made an ardous 1.5 hour stalk on him, crawling and :duck walking" through cactus and low grass and we eventually got to with 150 yards of him and his group of 12 does. I got Brenda set up with my 50 caliber Knight rifle on a Harris bi-pod. As I glassed around one last timeI spotted a muzzle sticking out from a Spanish Dagger about 50 yards slightly in front and to the right of us.

 

I told her we couldn't shoot, that it was obvious another hunter had somehow got to the spot first. it was his shot to take!

 

She was crushed as she could have smoked that buck easily at that range. However ethics and fair play are the rules and I told her she had to wait. Maybe the other hunter might miss!

 

Well he didn't and the buck was 19 inches tall with great mass. Seems like he had 7 inch bases. When we walked up to the young hunter, who had no idea what he had just accomplished, I stuck out my hand and said, "Congratulations on taking the largest antelope ever taken in Arizona with a muzzleloader!"

 

The young man was shocked at the statment and he didn't have a camera, so I took a few photos of him and the buck. He said he thought "it might be 16 inches tall!" As Brenda walked away, now crying, I asked the young man to do me a favor. Would he sign a 8 X 10 photo of the buck that I would send to him and would he write a note on it?

 

I sent him the photo, and he sent the photo to her. He signed it and it read, "Brenda, thanks for being an ethical hunter!" She has the picture to this day in her Mesa home. To me it is as good as having the buck there. She did the right thing. I've often wondered how many others would have waited, knowing they were looking at a true giant of an antelope?

 

I've looked but can't find the orginal photos I took. Can't even remember the young man's name....

 

Anyway I told him to get it scored, that I was sure it would be the state record for a muzzleloader buck, but don't know if he ever did. I do remember he was using a borrowed open sighted 58 caliber caplock rifle. He told me he was about 90 yards away. He said he aimed behind the shoulder. He hit it right behind the left black cheek patch...

 

Don Martin

Arizona Wildlife Outfitters