November 18, 2006, The day that Johnny King Shot the new typical world record, or so he thought. The opening day of Deer season is a rich tradition no matter what state you are in. Schools had the day off, camps and farms were packed with cars, and small quiet little towns turned into miniature cities for a few days with the influx of people.That same tradition was carried down from generation to generation for the King family since the 1950’s on their Grant County, Wisconsin farm.

That November morning started off just like any other opening day for Johnny King. He woke up early and headed to his mother's house for his family's tradition of opening day breakfast.The pair headed off to the family farm, where their uncle was already gutting a buck he had shot 15 minutes into the season. The morning went by with no deer in sight, so the family regrouped around lunchtime and came up with a game plan to put on some drives.

The first drive produced no deer, so the family regrouped again and moved on to the next drive where Johnny positioned himself above a large draw coming out of a thicket. Not even minutes into the drive, a giant buck ran up the ravine in front of Johnny before he was even set up, heading straight for the drivers. A few moments later, a shot rang out from the direction of the drivers, and a minute later the large buck again ran the ravine in front of Johnny, this time he was ready though. He lined up the iron sights on his 30-30 and took the 150-yard shot. The buck reared up and took off, and Johnny took two more shots as the buck was running.

He thought he had made a good shot, but began doubting himself when the buck didn’t slow down at all when running. He then crawled up a fence line along the draw to see if the giant was still in the area. To his amazement, the giant stood up 75 yards away. He raised his gun and again fired a shot, only to watch the giant bound away again. At this point, the drive had yet to begin, so he waited 45 agonizing minutes for the drivers to finish their push so that he could get some help with locating the buck. Toward the end of the drive, he heard another shot ring out and his cousin yelled big buck! The buck again ran in front of Johnny and again he fired a shot. Once out of sight, Johnny took off after the buck and relocated the buck running down the hill. Down to his last bullet, Johnny lined up his iron sights one more time and dropped the giant buck with his last shot. His cousin brad was now there and they both quickly approached the deer. To their surprise, the buck jumped up again and Johnny being fresh out of ammo yelled to brad to shoot. Brad put one last shot into the deer, and it was finally over.

The two shared congratulations and brad leaned down to pick up the massive rack. To his surprise, the whole entire left antler popped off in his hand. Apparently, when Johnny first shot at the buck and thought he had hit it, he has in fact hit the buck in the rack just below the brow tine.

In early 2007, a B&C official scorer measured the buck at a gross typical score of 220 6/8”, netting a whopping 213 6/8” potentially overtaking milo Hansen for the typical world record. The official measurer cautioned Johnny, that the panel score might not accept all 12 points as typical tines, and he told Johnny to take the rack to a B&C panel of judges to know for sure. That year, P&Y was conducting its 25th National Convention in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. A panel of B&C judges was going to be measuring. With high hopes, Johnny and his dad took the rack to the banquet.

Unfortunately, the panel looked at Johnny's incredible rack and ruled that it would be scored as a main-framed 5x5 with abnormal G-3s because of the common bases that the G2s and G3s shared. This put the "what-if" buck into the non-typical category, knocking him out of contention for the new typical world record. On May 15, 2007, his trophy rack was scored by Buckmasters at 198 5/8, making it the new Buckmasters world record in the Perfect category.

With matching 29” main beams and the smallest mass measurement coming in at 5 1/8”, the rack is truly world-class. Its inside spread measured 21 2/8” and 6 of its 12 scoreable points measured over 10” long. It seems like controversy always surrounds world-class whitetails and the king buck is no exception to that. The debate rages on to this day on whether or not B&C made a mistake on how the deer was scored. The one thing that is certain though, is that there’s no doubt that the Johnny king buck is truly a once-in-a-lifetime deer.

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