Phenomenal is the only way to describe the big buck hunting success of 21-year-old Gregory Shembarger from Berrien Center, Michigan. By the time he was 20, he had two Boone & Crockett-qualifying nontypicals to his credit, both of which scored more than 200 inches and each deer was shot with a muzzleloading rifle. Coincidentally, the racks of both bucks have 22 points.
Shembarger got the “smallest” of the two whitetails on property his family owns in southern Michigan’s Berrien County on November 23, 2021. The antlers from that whitetail gross scored 211 and netted 201 1/8.
Gregory got his first 8 and netted 226. To put Shembarger’s success into perspective, it’s safe to say most whitetail hunters will never shoot one buck of the caliber Gregory got during a lifetime of hunting much less two.
