Pope and Young Club Announces 3 New World Records
OutdoorHub 08.16.11
CHATFIELD, MN — Three new World’s Records were officially recognized during the Pope and Young Club’s 27th Biennial Convention and Awards Banquet in Rochester, Minnesota, this spring.
Species: Non-typical Coues’ Deer
- Score: 127 1/8
- Location: Gila County, Arizona
- Bowhunter: Nathan LaCost
Year: 2008
This Coues’ deer (the small subspecies of whitetail deer found in the arid southwest—Arizona, western New Mexico and northern Mexico) bested a World’s Record that had stood since 1989.
Species: Typical Mule Deer
- Score: 205 0/8
- Location: Hermosillo, Mexico
- Bowhunter: George Harms
- Year: 2009
This gigantic mule deer exceeded the previous world’s record that had stood since 1979 (a mule deer from Colorado).
Species: Alaska-Yukon Moose
- Score: 249 1/8
- Location: Earn Lake, Yukon
- Bowhunter: Real Langlois
- Year: 2008
Like the other two, this new World’s Record exceeded one that had stood for a long time. In fact, many believed the 248 0/8 bull that Michael Cusack shot in 1973 would stand as the world’s record Alaska-Yukon moose forever.
Just over 100 of the biggest and best animals taken in the last two years were requested and received for verification by the 27th Biennium Panel Judging Session prior to the Minnesota Convention. These outstanding specimen represented all 34 categories of North American big game and were displayed in an unforgettable public exhibit during the four-day convention that was the Pope and Young Club’s big 50th Anniversary Celebration.
