

The panel will not include anyone who was involved in this rack’s previous history. The rack will be scored in September by six official B&C scorers at B&C headquarters at Missoula, Mont. After intense scrutiny by members of the deer hunting media, the 32 members of the records committee recommended the rack be scored as typical.

The King Buck is controversial because the Boone and Crockett club inexplicably classed the rack as nontypical because of one G3 tine, making it ineligible to challenge Hanson’s record. Rompola quietly went away after being threatened with legal action by Hanson.
MILO HANSON BUCK FREE
Eric Sharp, who covered that story from beginning to end for the Detroit Free Press, said he did not believe the rack was genuine, nor taken legitimately. The King Buck is in some ways as controversial as the now discredited Rompola buck, a Michigan whitetail which threatened to unseat Hanson’s world record in 1998. Its net score could eclipse the 213 5/8 score of the Milo Hanson buck. The buck’s 6圆 rack had no abnormal points and was estimated to gross more than 220 inches. Magazine broke the story Thursday as the Boone and Crockett Club met to reconsider the infamous case of the so-called “King Buck.” Johnny King killed the big 12-point buck six years ago in Wisconsin. LITTLE ROCK - Pending a ruling by the Boone and Crockett Club, a Wisconsin whitetail might break the world record currently held by a Saskatchewan buck killed by Milo Hanson.
