>>A 60-Year-Old Rack Of Whitetail Buck Now Holds Pennsylvania State Record
(Harrisburg, PA) -- For the first time since 1943, Pennsylvania has a new state record for a typical whitetail deer taken with a firearm. But as Lancaster Online reports, the "new" record buck was shot about 60 years ago. State records show a man who has since passed away shot the 14-point buck, which measured 202 7/8 inches in Montgomery County sometime in the 1960s. The rack changed hands several times over the years, but recently ended up in the possession of the Bass Pro Shops, who had it officially measured. The Pennsylvania Game Commission just recently certified the rack as the new state record. It tops a 189-inch buck that had stood as the state record since it was shot by Fritz Janowsky in Bradford County in 1943.