Shields Buck News Today

Here Comes the Bride Giant Indiana buck isn’t second place in everything. The year Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking Major League Baseball’s five-decade color barrier, a doctor from Natchez, Miss., shot a Louisiana buck that would not be seriously challenged for 66 years. The gnarly whitetail taken in 1947 by the late Dr. Joseph Shields didn’t get its rightful designation as a world record until 1999, when it was measured on the kitchen table of its third owner (n...