CNB HUNTING/FISHING PENNSYLVANIA: TROPHY BUCK ENTERS RECORDS BOOK

Allegheny County buck ranks as No. 13 in archery category.

The hunters who top Pennsylvania’s all-time list for largest bucks harvested will remain there a while longer. 
The Pennsylvania Game Commission today took official measurements on an exceptionally large rack from a whitetail buck taken in Allegheny County two months ago, during the statewide archery season. 

Jeff Lenzi, right, of Fayette County, holds the 10-point rack of the buck he harvested Oct. 11 in Allegheny County. The buck is the 13th-largest taken with archery equipment in Pennsylvania.  Get Image

Many believed the buck held the potential to be a new state record, but the final score fell short of the leaders. 
The typical 10-point buck taken with a crossbow Oct. 10 by Fayette County hunter Jeff Lenzi netted a score of 166 inches, based on Boone & Crockett Club standards for scoring big-game animals. 
The score places the buck at No. 13 in the typical archery category in the Pennsylvania Big Game Records book.
The top buck in that category, taken in Allegheny County in 2004 by Michael Nicola Sr., of Waterford, scores 178 2/8 inches. The largest typical buck on record in Pennsylvania, taken in Bradford County by Fritz Janowsky, of Wellsburg, N.Y, way back in 1943, scores 189 inches. That buck tops the typical firearms category. 
Bob D’Angelo, an official Boone & Crockett Club scorer who heads Pennsylvania’s Big Game Records Program, measured the rack of Lenzi’s buck.
D’Angelo explained the scoring system rewards symmetrical racks and calls for deductions when a rack’s points