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  • Mitch Rompola posing with his possible world record in November 1998. (credit: Richard P. Smith)
    The Biggest Buck That Maybe Never Was
    Maxwell Howard
    In 1998, a hunter named Mitch Rompola claimed he’d shot the biggest whitetail in North America. It was all over the news, and people waited in anticipation for it to be entered in the record books. But then Mitch just went silent. And instead of becoming a famous hunter, he became an infamous one.