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TAKEN BY: Ralph Postin
DATE: 11/30/95
PLACE: Fulton Co. IL
HARVESTED WITH: BlackPowder Firearm
ANTLER CLASSIFICATION: Semi-Irregular
SCORER(S): Ronald J. Wedge
OWNER: Ralph Postin
TYPE: Free Roaming
TROPHY MEASUREMENT DATA
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TOTAL POINTS PER ANTLER 12 12
NO. OF IRREGULAR POINTS 5 5
TOTAL IRREGULAR INCHES 8 3/8 8 2/8
LENGTH OF MAIN BEAMS 23 4/8 22 4/8
LENGTH OF 1ST POINT 7 6 2/8
LENGTH OF 2ND POINT 8 2/8 11
LENGTH OF 3RD POINT 8 7/8 7 6/8
LENGTH OF 4TH POINT 8 1/8 9 7/8
LENGTH OF 5TH POINT 8 8
LENGTH OF 6TH POINT 7 3/8 4 6/8
LENGTH OF 7TH POINT 0 0
1ST CIRCUMFERENCE (C1) 5 3/8 5 2/8
2ND CIRCUMFERENCE (C2) 5 5 1/8
3RD CIRCUMFERENCE (C3) 5 5/8 5 7/8
4TH CIRCUMFERENCE (C4) 5 4/8 5 6/8
SCORE PER SIDE 101 100 3/8
INSIDE SPREAD 14 6/8
PERCENTAGE OF IRREGULARITY 8.2
Total Inches 201 3/8
BTR SCORE 216 1/8
(INCLUDES INSIDE SPREAD)
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Ralph Postin Buck
By Ed Waite

Ralph Postin of Lewistown, Ill., knows that the buck he shot more than a decade ago isn’t much to look at. He calls it the “Rodney Dangerfield” of whitetails because, while it breaks the 200-inch mark, nobody would’ve guessed it.

In other words, the Fulton County specimen doesn’t get any respect – not in a state like Illinois.

Still, it’s plenty respectable to him (and anybody else who bothers to take a good look at the unusual rack)!

The 1995 muzzleloader season was in full swing in that part of the state. Ralph, like so many others, was taking to the fields and forests, hoping to harvest a deer to help fill the freezer.

Ralph was carrying a brand new .54-caliber inline that he’d purchased for a trip to Colorado to hunt elk hunt.

Nov. 30 was very overcast, and the wind was howling through the trees. Far too windy to be in a treestand, Ralph decided that he would hunt some of the wooded land on the 1,500 acres that he and his four brothers f...

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