Bass Pro Shops offers $5,000 reward for return of white-tail mount
Bass Pro Shops is offering a $5,000 gift card for information leading to the return of a record-setting whitetail taken by a 16-year-old in Iowa in 2003, and the arrest and conviction of the persons who stole the mount in 2004.
The fall of 2003 was 16-year old Brian Andrews’ first year of bowhunting. He didn’t own a bow, so he borrowed some outdated archery gear from his sister’s boyfriend and started practicing. On Nov. 13, after numerous unsuccessful hunts, Brian arrowed a 26-point record-breaking whitetail in Buchanan County, Iowa. The enormous buck B&C net scored 253 1/8, making it the non-typical state record and the world’s No. 2 bow-taken whitetail that year.
On June 18, 2004, Brian’s buck was stolen from the Andrews home.
Almost four years later Brian’s trophy of a lifetime still has not been found and no arrests have been made.
Outdoor writer Les Davenport, who has been investigating the theft of the Andrews buck, along with several other ongoing thefts of Iowa trophy whitetails, contacted Bass Pro Shops to see if it would be interested in putting up a reward to help Brian get his deer back.