10/09/2026
Check this whitetail out, maybe a new record coming
Guner Womack may have harvested the largest typical buck ever taken in Oklahoma while hunting on family land in Pawnee County Tuesday evening. Some say it could be in the running for a world record.
Guner is an 18-year-old freshman at Oklahoma State University, who grew up in Morrison. He has hunted since he was a little boy, but told me this is his first season to hunt with a compound bow... and this giant is his first ever bow kill! He says the pictures don’t even come close to doing it justice.
His family has watched this buck grown over the years on their property and think he’s about 4.5 years old. Guner says the 8x8 came out into the field pushing younger bucks around and chasing does. He stopped broadside at 25 yards out from Guner’s stand. Guner took a perfect shot.
He can’t believe all the attention he’s getting and says hunting for him isn’t about the trophy, it’s about conservation and the meat.
“We eat everything we kill. We don’t waste anything,” he said. “What’s the point of hunting if you’re not gonna take everything? And it also keeps the flow of conservation going in the area.”
A retired game warden is going to get a green score on the buck tonight, then in 60 days, after the required drying period, it will be scored again. .
The current state record for a typical whitetail is 194 inches, taken in 2007.
Guner says state record or not, he’s proud to have ethically taken a buck of a lifetime.
I’ll keep you posted.
Congratulations, Guner!!
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