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Brent Mabrey’s NC State Record Deer with a bow

Jul 17, 2006 @ 10:40 pm by Moose

Here’s Brent Mabrey with the mount of his state record, with its incredible “double-beam” right side.
Photo by Dan Kibler and NC Game & Fish

NC Game And Fish has the story of Brent Mabrey’s record shattering Non Typical buck he took in Halifax County last September.

Mabrey’s buck, sporting a “third beam” and sticker points everywhere, was the biggest non-typical ever killed with a bow and arrow in the Tar Heel State. Scott Osborne and Mike Seamster, wildlife biologists with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, scored the buck in early December, and the numbers were astonishing.
Twenty-one scoreable points.
A 19 6/8-inch inside spread.
Brow tines over 6 inches long and a third brow tine on one antler that pushed 7 inches. One tine that was 11 3/8 inches long.
An enormous non-typical point curving out of the right antler, between the base and the brow tine, that measured almost 20 inches long.
A net non-typical Boone and Crockett score of 176 7/8 points, more than 10 inches larger than the buck that formerly held the state record, a Forsyth County buck killed in 1998 by Bill Froelich of Mocksville that scored 166 1/8.

Wow what a buck I’m just posting some quotes about the scoring but the story covers the whole hunt and is well worth reading.

The buck had a 4×3 main frame rack, with four points on the left side and three on the right. The main beams were 22 and 20 3/8 inches, and the left antler had one tine that was 11 3/8 inches long, a brow tine that was 7 3/8 inches long, and five sticker points, including a drop tine 4 1/2 inches long.
The right beam was the real story, however. In addition to the three points on the main beam, it had a 6-inch brow tine, a second brow tine that measured 6 7/8 inches, and a 19 6/8-inch-long third “tine” jutting out of the antler between the base and the brow tine. That extra tine had several sticker points, and the right main beam had several more drop points — a total of nine in all, giving the buck 20 scoreable points. The non-typical points measured a total of 59 1/8 inches. The main frame of the rack had almost 15 inches in deductions, so when Osborne and Seamster finally put away their calculator, they came up with 176 7/8.

That is an area that is not covered by the 2 buck limit (4 bucks are allowed) but it sounds like an area that got very limited pressure. They estimated the age of the deer to be 5 ½ years old and it goes to show what can happen if bucks get the chance to live past 3. I hope in the near future a 2 buck limit is set for the entire state.