NM pronghorn shot last year is new world record

A pronghorn buck shot last year in New Mexico has been certified by the Boone and Crockett Club as a new world record. The huge buck, hunted in Socorro County, N.M., by Mike Gallo, scored 96-4/8 B&C points. Outstanding features of Gallo's trophy are: lengths of horns: 18-3/8 right, 18-4/8 left; total mass: 23-3/8 right, 23-2/8 left; lengths of prongs: 7 right, 6-5/8 left. The new record breaks a tie between two specimens from Arizona. One was taken in Coconino County in 2000, the other in Mohave County in 2002. Both scored 95 B&C points. Club officials say the difference between these old records and the new — a full inch-and-a-half — is an extraordinary jump. In fact, the margin between the now No. 1- and No. 2-ranked trophies is the largest in Boone and Crockett pronghorn records, which contain more than 3,400 entries. Overall, New Mexico is second in pronghorn entries in Boone and Crockett records, with 627. Wyoming is first with 1,154. Rounding out the top five are Arizona (339), Nevada (288) and Montana (183).  AP