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Spillers’ big nontypical whitetail sports 18 points and scored 198 2/8 inches.
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Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023
Fifty percent of each purchase will be donated directly to the school, a program that educates typical and nontypical learners in an inclusive environment.
—Kimber Westphall, Dallas News, 23 July 2021
Included among Kasas’s top recent bucks is Gerald E. Rightmyer’s 272-2/8-inch nontypical taken in 2006 and a 295-inch giant picked up in 2012.
—Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 19 Mar. 2021
Sporting 18 scorable points, the 61/2-year-old free-ranging whitetail was recently taped for Texas Big Game Awards at 172 gross and 1634/8 net as a nontypical using the Boone and Crockett scoring system.
—Matt Williams, Dallas News, 29 Jan. 2021
Ryan Beran watched this 200-plus-inch nontypical buck grow up on his property in Northeast Ohio and was finally able to tag the monster deer this fall.
—Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 18 Mar. 2021
The monster nontypical has 21 scoreable point and green grossed 236-7/8 inches.
—Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 8 Dec. 2020
In 2017, Kurt started getting trail-cam pics of something unusual on the property—a buck with some nontypical antler growth.
—Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 22 Dec. 2020
For some perspective, the biggest nontypical shot with a firearm in Kansas was a 280 4/8-inch buck taken in 1987 by Joseph Waters.
—Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 1 Oct. 2020
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Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023
Fifty percent of each purchase will be donated directly to the school, a program that educates typical and nontypical learners in an inclusive environment.
—Kimber Westphall, Dallas News, 23 July 2021
Included among Kasas’s top recent bucks is Gerald E. Rightmyer’s 272-2/8-inch nontypical taken in 2006 and a 295-inch giant picked up in 2012.
—Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 19 Mar. 2021
Sporting 18 scorable points, the 61/2-year-old free-ranging whitetail was recently taped for Texas Big Game Awards at 172 gross and 1634/8 net as a nontypical using the Boone and Crockett scoring system.
—Matt Williams, Dallas News, 29 Jan. 2021
Ryan Beran watched this 200-plus-inch nontypical buck grow up on his property in Northeast Ohio and was finally able to tag the monster deer this fall.
—Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 18 Mar. 2021
The monster nontypical has 21 scoreable point and green grossed 236-7/8 inches.
—Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 8 Dec. 2020
In 2017, Kurt started getting trail-cam pics of something unusual on the property—a buck with some nontypical antler growth.
—Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 22 Dec. 2020
For some perspective, the biggest nontypical shot with a firearm in Kansas was a 280 4/8-inch buck taken in 1987 by Joseph Waters.
—Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 1 Oct. 2020
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First Known Use
1870, in the meaning defined above
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“Nontypical.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nontypical. Accessed 9 Feb. 2023.
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