# @outdoor_life on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DLWHpLkNwh0
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/31813763-outdoor-life-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-06-26T01:30:17.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Outdoor Life (@outdoor_life) — https://gondola.cc/outdoor_life

## Caption

A recent investigation by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has confirmed that the now-infamous 49-point buck that appeared at a hunting expo this spring was indeed a high-fence deer.⁠
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The 306-inch nontypical had been under suspicion even before it was submitted as a fair-chase state-record muzzleloader buck by Richard Waters, a 62-year-old from Markesan, Wisconsin. While high-fence deer operations aren’t illegal or even unusual in Wisconsin, it is against the law to attempt to pass off a high-fence animal as a potential free-range record. The hunting community and the Wisconsin Buck and Bear Club scorers who saw the rack — and photos of it — had doubts about its authenticity but had to wait on the DNR investigation to verify those concerns.⁠
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#wisconsin #bigbuck #bigbucks #hunting #huntingseason #deerhunting #deerseason #outdoors #conservation #highfence #outdoorlife⁠
📷: wi_dnr⁠
Story by: krebfish

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conservation, bigbucks, outdoors, deerhunting, huntingseason, wisconsin, highfence, deerseason, hunting, bigbuck, outdoorlife

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