Where in Pa. have hunters bagged the biggest buck on record since 1830? (UPDATED)

The story below is an updated version of a story that originally published in 2024.

Pennsylvania buck have been growing older and bigger for most of the 21st century, allowing more hunters to join the ranks of those who have bagged some real monsters statewide.

That’s thanks to antler-point restrictions that the Pennsylvania Game Commission put in place beginning in 2002.

The change has seen the commission adding upwards of 100 names to the state’s record book annually, based on minimum standards for the length of a deer’s antlers under the widely used Boone and Crockett Club scoring system.

Bob D’Angelo is Pennsylvania’s Big Game Scoring Program coordinator. He has a team of about 25 official scorers across the state that work with hunters who think they have a contender, and he pre