Jesse's Hunting & Outdoors Photo Gallery - Missouri Monach pick up by Dave Beckman (World Record)

This buck was spotted dead one day in 1981 by Dave Beckman by a fence near Columbia Bottoms, just outside St. Louis Missouri. It's a flood plain area where the Missouri and Mississippi rivers join together.

Beckman returned with an MDC employee and they retrieved the toothless buck that appeared to have died from natural causes.

Later MDC claimed the buck since it was on the boundary line of public land and a Union Pipefitter meeting hall.

Beckman never received any compensation, replica mount or even a thank you from MDC.

Several of my friends and I hunted this area and we never saw this buck. The locals also say they never saw this buck either. He just appeared one day dead.

The deer is the world record for non typical whitetail.

MAIN BEAMS 24 1/8" & 23 3/8"

SPREAD 33 3/8"

SCORE 333 7/8"

The deer had a non-typical antler rack that measured 333 7/8 under the complicated Boone & Crockett Club trophy scoring system. This shattered the record from Texas of 286 points, which had stood since 1892.

The rack is "non-typical", which means the antlers were not symmetrical. These abnormalities: and the fact that some points were broken are considered when the experts total the points. The antlers had an inside spread of 25 1/8 inches and weighed 11 1/4 pounds. There is no definite explanation for the tremendous antler growth exhibited by the deer. It should be remembered that the deer did not carry that big rack around more than a few months. Deer lose their antlers each winter and grow new ones in the summer.

The record deer was 4 1/2 years-old and weighed 250 pounds. His facial features consisted of deep sunken eyes and a deformity in the lower jaw causing it to be set back a few inches. According to Department biologists, the deformity may have been caused by a canine bite early in the buck's life. There is a small puncture hole in the lower jaw bone. Apparently, an infection set in which caused a total loss of his lower incisor teeth. They were replaced by a spongy bone.

Antlers are basically composed of calcium, phosphorus, and protein. When growth is completed it forms solid bone. Abnormally shaped antlers occur occasionally and sometimes represent injury during growth.

It goes into the books as a deer "not taken by a hunter". This is a one in a million deer.