Secrets out. New TX record buck

[Brock Middlebrook]

Great story

[ted_kennedys_liver]

Absoute monster. Out of curiosity why the secrecy behind the kill? Is it because they signed story rights to field and stream?

[charlie mcmahan]

Congrats to the hunter!!! Awesome deer & story!!!

[csmith936]

That's a freak of a deer for sure! Congrats to them....Id like to shoot one half that size this year lol

[TXHunter12]

Absoute monster. Out of curiosity why the secrecy behind the kill? Is it because they signed story rights to field and stream?

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[Draco]

Hey Jason, I don't think the old photo and the new are not the same deer. They are close but there are several differences.

[joebriles]

Cool story. I can't wait to get up in a tree.... Only 35 days and a few hours.

[tgridley]

Im sure you did since I mentioned it in a thread last fall. I spoke to MR Lee about the deer I saw and he confirmed it was likely the same deer. As a matter of fact, the rest of the bachelor group roughly matched as well.

They escape from the same breeder pen?

[Encinal]

That's right, Friedrick bought it for the collection.

Friedrich, my great great grandfather.

[adam_p]

Hey Jason, I don't think the old photo and the new are not the same deer. They are close but there are several differences.

I was just looking at the same thing. Definitely different racks.

[bermise]

Absoute monster. Out of curiosity why the secrecy behind the kill? Is it because they signed story rights to field and stream?

Probably cause east Texas is riddled with poachers. I don't blame him for keeping quiet.

[Antlers86]

Hey Jason, I don't think the old photo and the new are not the same deer. They are close but there are several differences.

I was looking at this too. Older photo is a lot smaller IMO. Some of the same characteristics but it's as if they made a model of the original rack a lot larger by adding length to everything. Taxidermy has come a long ways especially the reproduction of antlers.

[txtrophy85]

Friedrich, my great great grandfather.

Friedrich Topperwein was your great great grandfather?

That's pretty cool

[Encinal]

Friedrich Topperwein was your great great grandfather?

That's pretty cool

No Albert Friedrich. His father was a furniture maker, Wenzel Friedrich who made longhorn horn furniture in the 1880's. You can see some of the pieces made out of horn... Chairs etc in the buckhorn.

There is some info on him here:

http://www.longhornmuseum.com/BuckhornFriedrichKeilman.htm

Albert's brother started friedrich air conditioning. He started a bar.... The Buckhorn.

That's my understanding of family history.

[Encinal]

I was just looking at the same thing. Definitely different racks.

One is a set of sheds of the same deer.

They actually score more I believe.