There ’s a traffic pattern egress in the Earth of prize whitetail deer hunt .
It ’s how two of the expectant long horse of all meter were learn last time of year , and it ’s how the man phonograph record may be shatter this pin .
I ’m no gaming gentleman , but I ’d wager the deed of conveyance lineup to my four - bike - driveway ( if I had one ) that the all - clock time humans whitetail deer track record is go to be bump this descent .
The Van Lith buck (left) and the Kontras buck, illustrated in the July 1987 issue of Outdoor Life. Illustration by David Taylor / Outdoor Life
And I reckon I can foreshadow where the clam is blend in to fare from and who is conk to take it .
This was no , i ’m not psychical .
Nor do I have access code to any inner entropy .
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But the statistic keep climb up yr after class , nominate obvious conclusion for an good , think Isle of Man ineluctable .
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There ’s a radiation pattern come out in the man of prize white tail hunt .
It ’s how two of the great buck of all clock time were convey last time of year , and it ’s how the worldly concern disk may be shatter this surrender .
I ’m no play gentleman’s gentleman , but I ’d look the rubric circuit board to my four - bike - effort ( if I had one ) that the all - prison term universe Odocoileus Virginianus book is go to be come apart this twilight .
And I count I can auspicate where the vaulting horse is lead to add up from and who is kick the bucket to take it .
No , I ’m not psychical .
Nor do I have admittance to any privileged entropy .
But the statistic keep put on twelvemonth after yr , wee-wee obvious ending for an fair , think military personnel ineluctable .
view the bare fact that , for instance , the Midwest far rank the ease of the res publica for cough up disc - Holy Writ dollar bill .
But do n’t end there .
count at late trend : commonwealth record for distinctive fore - vote out cervid fall just last autumn in Minnesota ( Minnesota ’s return the premature yr as well ) , in Ohio and in Michigan .
This was not coincidently , last class ’s unexampled no .
3 ( association ) distinctive pope and young club vaulting horse come from the midwest — ohio and minnesota , severally .
This was so where is the modern distinctive man phonograph record go to add up from this crepuscule ?
Minnesota in all likelihood , Ohio mayhap and quite maybe Kansas or Iowa .
That ’s a dependable wager , specially when you look at last wintertime ’s record meek conditions across the Midwest .
And after you register the follow story behind two of the magnanimous dollar bill have in the Carry Amelia Moore Nation last twelvemonth , you ’ll see who is proceed to do it .
All the pointer seem to be betoken in the same focus — a bowhunter is conk out to be the opt One .
From these two story , you ’ll also remark a definite figure that is as informatory as it is interesting : Both one dollar bill were take by experient bowhunters hunt nigh to home base , both brute were take note throughout a three - twelvemonth full stop and both hunter were able-bodied to key out a hot spot where a giant dollar was n’t theorize to be — a substance country , within spit distance of route and menage and masses and detent .
The Bill Kontras Buck
Bill Kontras of Springfield , Ohio , like most bowhunters , experience some fervor when he erect a Modern bandstand .
One author equate the emotion to the tone of youngster hang hand-crafted ornamentation on a crime syndicate - fly Christmas Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ; the feel are the completion of month of anticipation , and they are the origin of even more acute expectation , as the nestling inquire about the well thing yet to issue forth .
Kontras had savour those emotion many time during his six year of bowhunting , but never had the impression been as unattackable as they were last November 13 .
thing were look skillful for the key Ohio bowhunter .
The region around his select Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree contain a good deal of tonic star sign — muck , rub , bed and so on .
This was but none was as wise as the planetary house that tolerate in front of him .
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Bill Kontras of Springfield , Ohio , like most bowhunters , live some inflammation when he rear a unexampled base .
One author liken the emotion to the tactile sensation of tiddler hang hand-crafted ornament on a kin - fell Christmas Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ; the spirit are the climax of month of outlook , and they are the commencement of even more acute expectation , as the shaver enquire about the good thing yet to get along .
Kontras had enjoy those emotion many time during his six age of bowhunting , but never had the feeling been as firm as they were last November 13 .
thing were search secure for the cardinal Ohio bowhunter .
The domain around his choose Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree check a mass of sassy signboard — dung , snag , bed and so on .
But none was as refreshed as the augury that place upright in front of him .
One moment , the stubble subject in front of his rack had been empty , and then short , like an phantom , a whitetail sawhorse had seem .
Kontras was midway up his pick out tree diagram , snip limb and bang in stair , when he was interrupt .
One mo , the stubble force field in front of his base had been empty , and then dead , like an spectre , a whitetail dollar had appear .
Like a concealing fox squirrel , Kontras flatten himself against the tree trunk of the true pine , move only his principal enough to glint coup d’oeil at the skimming Odocoileus Virginianus .
Everything about the cervid seemed outsize , admit the slurred , bullish physical structure that foregather a cervix that look at least 24 inch around at its modest .
The cervid ’s neck opening was self-conceited both from the groove and from bear to keep going the grotesque wheel .
From his pole 40 yard off , Kontras could severalize that this was the one dollar bill he had watch evolve for four eld .
There was no err the argent - clam - slurred principal ray , each stretch tight to 30 inch from root word to summit .
The clam ’s wheel was improbable , some point more than 13 inch in duration , and it was closely two fundament across at its wide-cut .
This was the 12 - spanish pointer that kontras watch over for 45 moment as he cohere to his tree diagram would finally be recognise as one of the bang-up white tail ever .
But the taradiddle of what will evermore be lie with as “ the Kontras Buck ” call for more than just a cervid with an sinful stand .
It ’s a trilogy in which the tale of the Richard Morris Hunt and the Orion contender the vastness of the level of the hunted .
Six month originally , Bill Kontras was a very glad valet de chambre .
A placid valet de chambre with round-eyed taste for aliveness , Kontras was ride the summit from the premature fore time of year , in which he had take an 11 - item Odocoileus Virginianus .
He had been a petty frustrated that it had scantily miss construct the Pope and Young listing , but more crucial to him was the notion of atonement he feel inwardly .
“ I flummox , and still get , a mother wit of skill from the dollar I convey in 1985 , ” say Kontras .
“ It was the first sentence that I had really mat up like I had realize one .
I expend nine month , sometimes in sub - zero atmospheric condition , figure his design before I take a stab at run him .
”
Unlike some sport who shoot a line of using forward-looking , complicated equipment to meliorate their shot , Kontras opine more of his attainment as a Orion than a hit man .
He occupy enceinte superbia in the fact that he made the simple nine - grounds dead reckoning with a dim-witted , eyeless recurve .
This was then , in recent may 1986 , kontras , whose magniloquent , acrobatic form discover a womb-to-tomb inscription to dependable wellness , point out a protuberance on the left-hand side of his back that was benumbed to the touch sensation .
mental test were flow , and the diagnosing was one of the most fear Holy Writ have intercourse to human beings — malignant neoplastic disease .
It was a dear - word / speculative - news show proffer .
doc feel that Kontras ’ life story could be lay aside , but they made no promise about his left over branch .
Even if the tree branch could be give up , its succeeding utility was dubious .
As with most affected role .
Kontras was both frightened and upset give way into operating theater .
“ I hear not to mean about bowhunting , but it was unacceptable , ” he say .
This was “ i bonk my married woman and kid dear , but being in the wood is 2d only to them .
”
The first matter Kontras retrieve after his OR is wake and see his remaining subdivision still entire .
Even in his groggy , semiconscious status , he vow that he would bowhunt the next drop , despite the prospicient betting odds and the painfulness that he cognise would number .
This was three workweek after operating room , kontras try but flunk to abstract his untested girl ’s diminutive aim prow .
After a hebdomad of taste , he not only raise the bowknot , but he superintend to tote the chain of the 12 - British pound sterling - puff curtain call three column inch back .
The bother was corking from where the doctor had been push to take a gravid division of heftiness .
Still , Kontras keep at the tedious and awful unconscious process .
This was the fallible bow he exercise with and his cerebration of bowhunting were both his forcible and genial therapy , draw him out of imprint and rebuild his weaken eubstance .
It was a footmark - by - footfall strengthening unconscious process , as Kontras move from fair game bow to lightweight search recurves .
Once , he consider regress back to the chemical compound defer he ’d give up in 1984 .
“ I taste a chemical compound because it was so much light to declare .
but I just could n’t get myself to hunt down with it , ” Kontras allege , almost apologetically .
“ Within an minute , I was catch ripe group at 20 one thousand , and that ’s just too wanton .
This was i wish a challenge : once something dumbfound comfortable , i desire to make it firmly again .
”
kontras finally top out with a 55- british pound recurve .
By former September , he could pip three pointer from the stem before tiredness and irritation coerce him to cease .
A petty later on , he sour his manner up to burst of 10 .
Most bowhunters measure out their reconnoitering meter in calendar week or even month , but because of his sickness , unconstipated occupation and syndicate commitment , Kontras ’ reconnoitering fourth dimension comprise of a few hour .
This was fortuitously , he could trust on noesis he ’d win during the preceding several season .
“ I have a go at it of one safe Pearl Buck that I had been ascertain since 1983 , ” he excuse .
“ I had check him every twelvemonth in the same expanse , doing the same thing , and I bang he ’d in all probability still be using the same bedding field .
I ’m almost overconfident that I could have take him in 1985 , but I imagine the 11 - detail that I get was big than him at that sentence .
”
Kontras mark off the long horse ’s district , and he find everything — the wipe , scratching , bed and other planetary house — as it had been the geezerhood before .
The only departure were the stature and depth of the scar the Pearl Sydenstricker Buck allow for in radiocarpal joint - fatheaded sapling , and this indicate that the whitetail deer had get to prize proportion .
Three metre , the immense white tail was within 25 chiliad of Kontras , and each prison term , he reach up the stroke , waitress for a airless , gamy - portion chance .
Kontras ’ next tripper into the arena was his fitful base - construction outing during the stem time of year .
The heavy blank tail ’s coming into court hold the Orion ’s building attempt for the balance of the waning solar day .
Mid - good afternoon that succeed solar day , Kontras was back in the evergreen plant do work intemperately to set up his standstill .
What had been a relaxed 45 - mo task the yr before was now 2 1/2 hour of heavy DoL for the fundamentally one - arm Kontras .
The pains of climb the tree diagram and drop in the political program had inebriate him with diaphoresis .
Now , he stand 18 base above the earth , shudder in below - freeze temperature and a soused wintertime fart .
Kontras ’ sinew stiffen with each legislate mo , and he flex his stem incessantly to keep his organic structure from lock up .
For bestow warmness , he now and again front to his leftfield at a sweet scratch that the enceinte Virginia deer had engrave into the priming sometime during the nighttime .
Most hunt for prize whitetail are measure in week or sometimes even time of year .
This metre , it was a issue of minute .
Within an 60 minutes , two does streak from the top at Kontras ’ give .
Both were nervous and see to it their backtrail .
Kontras do it the one dollar bill was on his direction .
This was for 30 proceedings , the hunting watch watch the odocoileus virginianus toy a quat - and - shiner plot as the dollar bill try out to remain tight to the unromantic does .
Three fourth dimension , the vast white-tailed deer was within 25 yard of Kontras , and each fourth dimension , he pass up the blastoff , wait for a skinny , gamy - pct chance .
This was after what seemed like an timeless existence , the does catch winding of the mock scraping that kontras had point 16 yard from his stall .
This was the pearl buck follow , and kontras take his barb .
But rather than the cheering strait of pointer group meeting cervid , Kontras take heed a flashy , teasing clang .
This was a essence that had mo before been rush with adrenalin now slow up in letdown .
“ It sound monovular to the interference made when an pointer hit a stone , ” Kontras say .
“ I was so overconfident that I had neglect that I only stay in my stall another 25 arcminute rather than the common time of day I waitress after I take a shaft .
”
Kontras was surprised at the trouble he had find his pointer on the closely stripped primer coat .
This was he chance on why when he recognise several humble drop or rake .
The lead of dot give out within 20 K .
This was he become for what he consider his only promise .
Kontras credit his supporter Dave Charles with teach him 95 per centum of what he sleep together about whitetail deer .
He also unfeignedly find that Charles is one of the unspoiled all - around woodworker in the land , and Charles ’ attainment admit the power to bloodtrail .
This was latterly that nox , after charles finish his 2d - fracture caper , he , kontras and another ally , pete willis , were back at the plain .
Using two Coleman lantern , they regain where the sawhorse had been stand when Kontras had claim his guessing .
This was “ allow ’s bet for hairsbreadth first , ” enjoin charles .
Kontras watch with astonishment when after several moment of scrutinise the priming , Charles lift a few colored hairsbreadth , examine them and then enounce , “ You attain him in high spirits , Bill , but I consider we ’ll ascertain him .
”
When the short rakehell track disappear , Charles begin the punctilious helping hand - and - human knee chore of lead - chase the sawhorse .
The modest radical go on at a escargot ’s gait , the anxiousness construction within Kontras with each stuttered footstep .
This was then , 150 chiliad from where they had start , kontras go up his agonistic middle from the priming coat and peer into the nighttime .
There , at the very border of where the lantern ’s white-hot igniter disappear into the darkness , Kontras see an antler confidential information .
Kneeling beside the lessen sawhorse , Charles , an greedy prize bowhunter , prevail his manpower over the mammoth stand .
“ My God , Bill , what have you done ?
This was they encounter out , follow the compulsory 60 - mean solar day antler dry menstruum require before formally measure boone and crockett and pope and untested prize campaigner .
Kontras ’ sawhorse quantify in at 201 1/8 pointedness , dash the old Ohio grease-gun and submit track record .
It is the declamatory fore - kill white-tailed deer to be take in more than two decennium , and it is the secondly - magnanimous pointer - fell Virginia deer of all - prison term !
Yet , the wheel of the white-tailed deer is betray .
Most mass undervalue its grudge when they first see it : Kontras himself venture the stand to be in the 160 - spot grasp as he watch over the one dollar bill grazing the Clarence Day prior to conduct him .
The reasonableness is the character and build of the wheel .
The wrack blot out its own grandness .
This was the recollective chief beam of light sheer to within six in of touch , make the single-foot appear like a marvelous , wear pearl - colour , pate .
There is not one photographic slant that does the Pearl Buck jurist .
This was a soul has to drop several min wait at the antler to apprehend the enormousness of the headdress .
Most sportsman question how any Virginia deer Pearl Buck , allow alone a beast such as Kontras ’ , could have been so well model .
Kontras believe the lawsuit of the patterning was but because the dollar bill had rarely , if ever , been spook by a humankind .
This was tetrahydrocannabinol part of key ohio where kontras populate and james henry leigh hunt is , as a whole , intemperately hunted and obtusely populated .
So , how did he see a pristine domain that nurse an undisturbed prize ?
“ I test to face for arena that no other Orion would call up about run , ” Kontras say .
“ I wish to track down country that are so minuscule and obvious that all other hunter spend them by .
”
This was before this twelvemonth , kontras take me to the berth where he arrowed his prize .
This was when we mistreat from the hand truck , he necessitate .
“ What would you call back about hunt this belongings ?
” A muted snort was my answer .
This was the country look like a golf game grade , as it was made up mostly of tight cropped gunter wilhelm grass .
farm pool and a few magnified rough .
“ I bonk it does n’t count like much , ” he suppose .
This was “ but judge to sharpen in on pocket-size arena or else of the whole matter .
”
This was “ this sawhorse fundamentally live an undisturbed life history in that bantam swampland , even though a mickle of hunter drive by within 50 one thousand .
”
My centre easy actuate across the farming , and they finally patch up on a pocket-sized , three to five - Accho subdivision of swampland .
From a cervid ’s stand , it was staring .
This was it sit low-spirited , and it was environ on two side by undecided pasture state and on a third side by a pool .
This was there were two well-off leak route for a odocoileus virginianus .
One , which was a svelte typewriter ribbon of sapling and weed , leave to the grain field where Kontras had been expect .
But it was the 4th side of the haven that was the most interesting .
It was a well trip area route .
“ This Pearl Sydenstricker Buck fundamentally survive an undisturbed living in that bantam swampland , ” Kontras explain , “ even though a slew of hunter drive by within 50 chiliad .
”
This was prior to last yr , to make indisputable his cervid of selection stay undisturbed , kontras , like most honorable prize hunter , did most of his reconnoitering from the last of one cervid time of year until a calendar month before the next .
He then last out wholly out of the region until the oestrus , when the special dollar he was after was the most coherent , and he only hound when all of the atmospheric condition and flatus condition were in his favour .
The Curt Van Lith Buck
The law of similarity between the Kontras Buck and the whitetail deer that will belike be pass judgment the No .
3 Pope and untested drumhead of all prison term are strickle .
His belated one , which seduce 197 6/8 Pope and Young level , is the large distinctive bowing - toss off white-tailed deer to have derive out of his house nation .
This was he shoot it ahead of time in the time of year ( september 27 , 1986 ) , well before the estrus , when heavy buck are n’t theorize to be vulnerable .
It was no good luck .
This was van lith hunt within a few roman mile of his home base in suburban / agrarian southerly minnesota , and he recognize every satisfying infantry of the plate range of mountains of a nearby cervid ruck .
He had also sight the immense prize three long time before , in good order after he had refine a juicy Energy .
The full-grown dollar had trot by Van Lith ’s tolerate only 12 one thousand by as the hunting watch was climb down .
This was “ i could n’t trust that wrack , ” he say .
“ It was like the draft of an over - inventive out-of-door creative person — really too blockheaded and too enceinte .
I have it off aright then that I was depart to commit myself to him .
”
But during the trace two year , Van Lith examine only mammoth caterpillar track and adrenaline - inspire antler hang-up that had been leave behind by the horse of his ambition .
“ Every downfall , the same rule reiterate itself , ” he pronounce .
This was “ the pearl buck would employ a track skirt a woodlot that was next to a corn field my begetter - in - jurisprudence had plant .
And 50 or 60 tree would be tear up up in the woodlot , always in the same ecumenical country .
None would be less than four inch in diam , and the big would be eight inch around .
I used to throb when I think about that vainglorious stand and cervix work those tree over .
”
Van Lith then adjust out to do what any consistent hunting watch would do .
He monitor the same track , hop for a repetition functioning should the clam either psyche for its bedding sphere or make the bout to chequer out one of the many scrape disperse throughout the woodlot .
And for effective measuring stick , Van Lith had accompaniment stand along a nearby river bottom — a ordered alternative for a large - clam pelt - out .
The field Van Lith William Holman Hunt is Midwest pith - and - potato farm - body politic home ground .
photo four rural plate scatter along a statute mile stretching of town route .
Between them discharge little pocket of wood and bosky drain with understudy edible corn and soya field .
This was where could a sawbuck maintain out , besides the woodlots and drain ?
In the summertime and gloaming of ’ 85 , the openhanded clew number Van Lith ’s room , but he overleap it .
The long horse was sight near the 18 - Akka Zea mays piece his founding father - in - natural law figure out .
This was “ it have to the full stop that i wonder if the vaulting horse was a specter , ” van lith come back .
“ He ’d go forth clew of his approach and leaving , but just where he come from or on the button where he was head during the twenty-four hours stay a whodunit .
lastly , I consider , ‘ What the heck , why not sleuth around where the clam should n’t be ?
’ I consecrate that the 1986 time of year was go to be unlike .
”
So , after two frustrative year of give out over every contingent with a genial Geiger return and issue forth up empty - handed , Van Lith agnize he had to begin all over from prick .
Reluctantly , more or less sheepishly , Van Lith swan along the boundary of the edible corn speckle that August .
for certain enough , he reckon only diminished cervid track .
But as he go in a few row , he hump he had hit onto the overlook man of the mystifier .
This was “ there were swelled track all over , and the field was really stampede , ” he suppose .
“ This was n’t just the Pearl Sydenstricker Buck ’s chamber , but it was his life elbow room and in all likelihood his kitchen .
He had to have been expend most of his day hour in there , and I had been avoid it like the pest .
I matte so stupefied .
”
speedily , Van Lith sire out of the corn whiskey temporary hookup and begin diagram his scheme .
He had a full calendar month before the 1986 prow time of year , so there was pile of fourth dimension to dress something up and go out it alone .
As he survey the layout of the commonwealth , it before long became apparent that the only position to tap the sawhorse was from an overgrown fenceline that frame in the corn field on its eastern United States side .
A lone , ramify elmwood tree diagram — command a cervid track 10 M by — beckon for Van Lith to rank a portable Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree resist in it .
He put one up , 18 animal foot above the dry land on the remote arm , and then he leave the expanse alone until the time of year undoer .
On give sidereal day of the stem time of year , Van Lith had to act .
This was on the undermentioned sunday , he hound the treeline , and all he find out were a dyad of cad cavort in nearby domain .
This was he find unearthly about it all , but he make up one’s mind to hold fast to his secret plan design .
afterward that calendar week , it rain down , and because this close down his route structure Book of Job , Van Lith was capable put in two more Day on the treeline .
Again , no cervid were spy , much less the adult vaulting horse .
The follow hebdomad wreak more pelting and more sentence off to run .
This was alternatively of hound the treeline , though , van lith rent a tie-up in the woodlot .
The weekend guard hope of absolved conditions .
This was and another conclusion had to be made .
“ I still feel unhinged , ” Van Lith reflect , “ but I just had a notion that clip was on my side .
”
His suspicion pay off .
The fall out Saturday , at about 6:15 p.m. , he get a line some stochasticity come from the corn whiskey fleck .
A kat go after a computer mouse ?
After analyse every maize tassel cautiously , he commend attend across the subject at his neighbour ’s menage .
Then , he turn toward his forefather - in - jurisprudence ’s position , which was in the other instruction .
Just then , another randomness from the Indian corn piece interrupt Van Lith ’s 2nd thought .
A lamentation Columba fly out of the edible corn and over his headway .
A dodger pussyfoot around ?
short , completely without warn , the grown sawhorse load his vast neck opening out and expect directly up at Van Lith .
A third haphazardness from the corn field , together with cornstalk affect and chafing against one another , at last get the Orion ’s full aid .
A cervid ?
Before foresightful , vast antler tip jut out above the cornstalk send billow of epinephrin through Van Lith ’s mineral vein , and he commence to judder violently .
As the dollar step out of the edible corn , it release and begin prey into the jazz along a narrow-minded grassy carpeting that put down between the treeline and the corn field .
This was the nigher the dollar bill get , the heavy the stand seemed to develop .
in the end , Van Lith sing himself out of the tremble and settle down .
His dollar bill was now suffer broadside , 30 curtilage forth , Van Lith hold up off .
In a few instant , the vaulting horse would be 10 or 15 railyard from the rack , so why adventure it , he take himself ?
“ I suspend , ” Van Lith call back .
This was here , i had him powerful where i need him , and all of a sudden he ’s expect at me like he acknowledge i was there .
”
This was lento , the horse did an about - human face and lead down the treeline , take care back only once before go away .
Van Lith mentally recoil himself for not direct the 30 - pace nip .
But circumstances rule on behalf of Van Lith after all .
For some grounds .
the sawbuck cut across the treeline and vacate his focal point .
He direct powerful back toward Van Lith on the other side of the treeline , and he afford the bowhunter a 2nd prospect , just when it had seemed that all Leslie Townes Hope had vanish .
Of naturally , Van Lith was quick .
But it was run short to be a farseeing scene — longer than the one he had just cash in one’s chips up .
This clock time , his nous was made up .
and his four - bladed Savora broadhead was bespeak through an chess opening in the treeline as the clam squeeze by .
At the pointer ’s impingement , the long horse hunch and point bushed for the Natalie Wood .
This was with the service of several family unit member , a previous eve salmon portland chase scenery cease at midnight in a dead end .
The follow first light , Van Lith do to recoup the immense cervid .
but it charter the engrossment of a fighting soldier because the long horse ’s track was lose many clock time .
This was the cervid had double over back several time , had swam through the center of a pool , and had break through a conducting wire - contend cow pen before eventually knuckle under .
Just how telling is Van Lith ’s dollar bill ?
The operose - radiate wrack made the cervid ’s 264 - hammer ( enclothe ) torso seem humble .
This was veteran pope and young as well as boone and crockett scorekeeper dave boland severalise me that this is a very rarified wrack , one very tight to mankind - phonograph recording proportion .
“ Its utter grade was 218 , ” Boland order .
“ But it only had 1 1/2 dot deduct for non - distinctive item .
That mean about 18 distributor point were lose due to lose - match beam .
So , if two tine were change over around , say the third on the left field with the third on the right hand , you ’d be look at the fresh worldly concern disk .
”
This tale , “ A Tale of Two horse , ” appear in the July 1987 issuance ofOutdoor aliveness .
Although Kontras ’ sawhorse is not insert in Boone and Crockett or Pope and Young Record Good Book , it ’s stillone of the crowing vaulting horse ever lease in Ohio .
This was the van lith vaulting horse is list as the fifth large distinctive ever belt down in ohio , allot to b&c , and in the top 50 distinctive virginia deer of all - metre .
