> “Yes, it is a legitimate buck. I mean, we are a high-fence operation, I want to be clear about that, but this is a real buck. It was taken last September and weighed 420 lbs live-weight. The heaviest deer that’s ever been shot on our place.”

> “[The hunter] was so pumped, he just went nuts. He was kissing the deer.”

> Imagine being a bowhunter with only one archery buck to your name, and then arrowing a buck that scores over 190 — counting just one side of his rack.

> Let’s start with the “smaller” side of the rack…totaling 118 4/8. Doubling it and adding the buck’s inside spread of 20 2/8 would yield a gross score of 257 2/8. Even that number would put him among the top bow bucks in IL history, as well as one of 2018’s best from anywhere — bow or gun.

> The Brewster buck’s 26-point left antler is what truly launches him into the stratosphere. It has a 62 6/8″ 4-point typical frame, plus 22 non-typical points…total an unprecedented 128 4/8″, bringing the left antler’s gross score to 191 2/8. That number makes it the highest-scoring wild whitetail antler ever, from anywhere in the known universe.

> Efforts by American Tom McIntyre to get a definitive answer from Jamaican authorities to his request to organize hunts to cull the whitetail deer, an alien invasive species, have yielded little results.

> The whitetailed deer…have no natural predators and are spreading fast…estimate of the population is more than 6,000 deer in the wild in Jamaica.

> Game wardens assigned to monitor Webb County’s annual Muy Grande deer contest were making routine license checks on hunters who turned in trophy bucks…one lucky hunter turned in bucks that won both the 1st and 2nd place trophies.

> “The hunting license check revealed that the hunter only possessed a valid ‘Resident Year-From-Purchase All Water Package’ fishing license, not a hunting license….”

> “Turns out the hunter had recorded in the harvest log his hunting license number from the previous year.”