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...