The first time he had an opportunity to shoot this buck, teenager Jeffrey Brunk whiffed. Here's how he stuck with the deer.

If these claims are correct, the deer would shatter the existing 253-inch record and make it the largest nontypical ever taken in the state. But critics argue the buck is clearly a pen-raised deer ...

The biggest males weighed 1,500 pounds, about the same as an Alaskan moose, and they sported the largest antlers the world has ever known ... it was a giant deer, with no relation to the European ...