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On Sept. 26, Missouri hunter Kelly Moore killed a doe with a bigger rack than most of the bucks he\u2019s tagged over the years. The velvet-antlered doe sported 18 points, which added up to a rough score of over 150 inches. If those numbers hold up over the 60-day drying period, Moore\u2019s deer will be added to the Buckmasters record book<\/a> as one of the highest-scoring antlered does ever taken by a hunter.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s definitely a record,\u201d Moore told Fox Weather<\/a> over the weekend. \u201cI don\u2019t know that it\u2019s going to be [number one]. A friend of mine came over and got a rough score on it of 157 7\/8 [inches] and believes that it\u2019s going to be like the third largest in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Moore explained that he shot the deer on Tuesday morning during his first sit of the season at his property in Barry County. It was a hot day with temperatures in the 80s, and he said he wasn\u2019t even planning on hunting until he got a picture of the deer from a cellular trail camera he had set up near one of his deer blinds. Moore got in the blind before sunrise and waited for a few hours. He passed on an 8-pointer and a few other bucks and then the 18-pointer stepped out.<\/p>\n Still thinking it was a buck, Moore fired his crossbow at the deer and killed it. He retrieved the animal and saw that something was amiss, so he called his local game warden. Officials with the Missouri Department of Conservation then examined the deer and confirmed that it was a doe and not a buck. They said there\u2019s a roughly 1-in-10,000 chance that a whitetail doe will grow antlers, and they explained that the deer\u2019s atypical rack was the result of a hormonal imbalance that caused it to grow antlers year after year without ever shedding.<\/p>\n Read Next: <\/strong>The Record Whitetail That No One Heard About\u2026Until Now<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThis is just a sign that we have an abundant and thriving deer population in Missouri,\u201d MDC spokesperson Francis Skalicky told KFVS 12<\/a>. \u201cThe higher your numbers are, the more anomalies you\u2019re going to have \u2026 You never know what you\u2019re going to see out there, and this is case in point.\u201d<\/p>\n Although the final score won\u2019t be made official until later this year, Moore\u2019s trophy-sized doe will join a list of some of the biggest antlered does<\/a> ever recorded. At the top of this list sits the 15-point doe that Doug Laird, another Missouri hunter, killed in 2014. Laird\u2019s doe<\/a> had an official final score of 180 7\/8 inches, according to the Buckmasters scoring system.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n