“There were rumors that was hanging in some sporting club in Massachusetts, but we never knew where it was,” Cataldo said. Then Cataldo said they disappeared, and nobody knew where they’d ended up. The price: $50.įor several years, the mount remained there. As a result, Gould’s buck is in the record books as a 31-pointer.Ĭataldo said his grandfather sold the mounted head to a man who owned sporting camps in Grand Lake Stream. Those who officially score antlers for clubs that specialize in trophy animals have a more exacting criteria, it turns out. “Back in the old days, the way they measured a ‘point’ was was anything you could hang a wedding ring on,” Cataldo said, citing a method that is still often used by Maine hunters in the field. The story goes on to claim that the antlers’ “spread” was 28 inches, and that the 50 points “are not merely nubles, which some ‘sports’ count, but are all well defined prongs.”Ĭataldo said the confusion about how many points the deer had is understandable. This head, however, is very even, having 26 points on one side and 24 on the other, and it is a beauty in every way.” “This phenomenal head has 50 points, or prongs on the antlers! ‘Freak heads,’ as these large heads are usually called, are almost always one-sided or so out of proportion that they make poor specimens to look at when mounted. of Bangor, leading taxidermists of the world, from Hill Gould of Grand Lake Stream,” the story read. “The largest deer head ‘in history,’ that is the biggest head ever seen by local hunters of many years’ experience or in fact ever heard of by Bangor people who know, has been received by the S.L. The Gould buck served as the lead of that story, which itemized the game shipments received in Bangor that week. There was apparently some confusion as to the actual size of the rack on Gould’s buck, as the headline on a story published in the Bangor Daily News boldly proclaimed, “50 Point Buck is Largest Ever Seen.” “Then they all grabbed their lanterns and hiked about a mile up the river just to see the deer.” Then Gould told the tale for the first time. “He threw the heart and liver on the table, and they said, ‘Oh, Hill. “He took the heart and liver, got back to camp, and the boys were playing cards at the table,” Cataldo said. After shooting the deer, he realized he’d need help getting it out of the woods, and he decided to leave it overnight … but not before field-dressing it. Gould quickly realized that the rack of antlers wasn’t on a moose but belonged to a huge deer. Most guys would shoot whatever they could, just to survive.” He was a real honest guy, which was pretty rare back in those days. He wasn’t going to shoot it, because it wasn’t moose season at the time. “He thought it was a moose at first, because all he saw was the horns at first. “He was sitting there late in the day and heard something coming,” Cataldo said. The water there was shallow, Cataldo said, and deer were often able to cross the river at that point. During the ensuing hunt, Gould decided to sit near a set of rapids on Little River.
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