"That told me he made it through the hunting season," said [Don Barbour], who spotted the deer earlier that year but couldn't get off the shot. "I could only hope he'd make it into the 2011 season."

"It looked like a picket fence," said [John Bogucki]. "It's an outstanding deer, and when you consider no one has ever shot one like it in this county during the 60 years that records have been kept, that's pretty remarkable."

"To give you an idea how unusual this is, there have only been two non-typical Hoosier Record Book bucks recorded from this county during the past 60 years," said Bogucki. "And statewide, only about 12 non-typical racks make it into the Boone and Crockett record book each year, out of some 120,000 deer killed annually."