The wide-antlered deer known by several names, including Two-footer, Wide Boy and Jim, has scored the widest inside antler spread in Wisconsin and fourth highest in the United States, said Michael Evenson, who pulled the deer's skull and rack from a creek bed in November.

Evenson, who lives in Rice Lake and hunts in Rusk County, found no deer body or other bones at the site.

Evenson knew the deer's inside spread - 30 5/8 inches between the antler beams - was something special. He also knew about the deer long before he found the skull and antlers.

It seems everyone in the area a few miles southwest of Weyerhaeuser knew about the wide-antlered buck.

"It was crazy out there," said Evenson, who ghost wrote a letter for the buck, basically saying that some folks' ruthless pursuits of the deer were, in the end, fruitless.