The biggest buck I've ever seen on the hoof was on the Woodley Spur Road. It was a small stretch of road that separated Woodley Road and 231. Back in the 80's, it used to be legal to spotlight at night up until 10pm as long as you didn't have a weapon in the vehicle. When I was a kid, my dad and I would ride around and look at deer in and around Montgomery. It was January and the rut in South Alabama was wide open, so we had already seen several hundred deer that night including some really nice bucks. We were slow rolling down the road and drove up on an old shack that had an 8 - 10 acre bean field beside it. I grabbed the light and shined it across the field, and didn't see nothing. He stopped the truck and I swept across it again and there was a doe standing in the middle of the field that wasn't there the first time I went across it (she was bedded down). Then I see this deer stand up beside her and my eyes about popped out of my head. He was a little too far to count points so I can't tell you how many points he had. However he was sporting the tallest and widest rack I have ever seen to this day. His antlers came up out of his head and turned straight out. He was standing broadside and it looked like they didn't curve around until almost at his rump. That deer had to be 30+ inches wide and he had really tall tines which made him tall as well. We sat there watching that buck for 30-40 seconds, and he just lowered his head and slinked off into the swamp beside the bean field. My dad looked at me and said "Son I hope you took a good long hard look at that one because you will never see another one that big in your lifetime". So far he's been right.

I saw a buck at the Bass Pro exit in Leeds a few years back that was palmated, with a ton of points. Had to have been pushing 170, and I'm no expert in scoring deer.