Potential NY 'record' buck identified as farm-raised

A New York state man who claimed to have taken a whitetail deer with a non-typical score around 220 has withdrawn his trophy from possible contention as a state record after a sharp-eyed Boone & Crockett measurer and vice president of the New York State Big Buck Club identified the deer as being farmed-raised. The Watertown Daily News reports Wayne N. Long II has subsequently been cited by the state Department of Environmental Conservation for filing a false statement in connection with the deer.