Ron Kammerzell almost didn’t get a shot off at his 2001 Colorado record buck. Ron had just started hunting the ranch and had not spent much time on the property. He did get to scout a little and reported not seeing much in the way of really big buck sign and was not impressed with what he saw. So, he hung a stand in an area that looked good to him, but he did not hunt the stand right off. When he did hunt the stand, magic was in the air.
The giant whitetail came by him so quickly that the awe-struck hunter had to grunt at it to stop it. Much to Kammerzell’s relief, it worked. He ended up getting an up close and personal 18-yard shot at the deer on October 21, 2001, in Weld County, Colorado.
As the archery department manager at Sportsman’s Warehouse in Loveland, Colorado, Kammerzell knows his archery equipment. That’s why he depended on the Muzzy 3-blade, 100-grain broadhead to harvest the record deer. The Muzzy Broadhead dropped the monster buck within site.
The 224-pound (field dressed) main-frame 10-point buck had 27 scorable points which grossed 239 7/8” and netted 230 6/8 inches. The inside spread measured 20 1/8 inches and the bases measured 6 3/8 inches. The buck had 50 7/8 inches of non-typical mass and 9 1/8 of deductions. When Ron inspected the deer, he noticed that the buck had no testicals! Further inspection found a freshly healed-over injury that must have happened during a fight or maybe just jumping a fence or a deadfall tree.
The buck also had a lack of color in its antlers as a result of losing its testicles. This eliminated the buck’s desire to rub or fight, resulting in very little coloration and no broken points. Nearly all of the dark coloring on the bases is simply dried on velvet that the buck never rubbed off. This is another case where pictures just do not do this buck justice...this is a very intimidating looking rack!
Ron scouted the area pretty good and never saw any sign of this buck. He thinks because of the loss of the testicles that the buck became a total loaner with no desire to move around like most bucks do. Biologists say that the buck would not have grown another rack like this with the loss of testosterone.
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Archery only, fair chase harvest, Pope & Young certified, whitetail bucks. |
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All harvested by real, everyday, avid bowhunters with a Muzzy Broadhead. |
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Each rack scores 200 net inches or better. |
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Over 2,600 total inches of antler mass in only eleven racks! |