SUN JOURNAL • December 2, 2021
Maine has long been famous for its “monster” whitetail bucks. Of course, the most fabled of these is the 1955 Horace Hinckley buck, a big-toed bruiser that field-dressed at a jaw-dropping 355 pounds! No other buck has since come close to this famous buck when it comes to sheer weight. But weight is not the only yardstick that determines that a buck is worthy of special attention — antlers are what it is all about in making a buck famous in the deer hunting community. ~ V. Paul Reynolds