FREAK OF NATURE: A buck killed during the gun season in Oklahoma County is the talk of the deer hunting world

George Moore measures the antlers for Boone & Crockett while Brad Julian Jr. looks on. [PHOTOS BY ED GODFREY, THE OKLAHOMAN]

Brad Julian Jr. of Oklahoma City holds the European mount of the whitetail he shot near Jones during the gun season. The buck's score will be a world record for a 3 x 3 main frame.

Boone and Crockett scorer George Moore was sitting at a table at the Backwoods Show last weekend, waiting for the next hunter to bring him a rack to measure, when he spotted Brad Julian Jr. walking down the aisle toward him.

“I didn't know what to think,” Moore said of the European mount that Julian was carrying. “I thought he was bringing us the head of a dinosaur.”

What the Oklahoma City resident was bringing to be scored was the rack of a massive whitetail that he shot during the deer gun season in far eastern Oklahoma County near Jones.

Since last weekend's Backwoods Show, photos of the rack have spread like wildfire on social media. It's the talk of the deer hunting world.