sir-lamp-alot, I cast my mind back to the 70's and will recount the Baillie head event as i remember it.
Peter Baillie was something high up in the BDS at the time. He was out stalking ,sitting in a high seat when he saw movement in the bottom of a ditch. He saw it was a buck but not how big the antlers were. The first shot he takes misses the buck but he manages toget it with the second shot. When he gets up to the buck there is the bigest buck he has ever seen.
The shooting press at the time had articles about a new record head but when it was judged it was judged to be a mallform due to the massive thckness of the skull.
I remember the aritcle in the BDS ,Deer magazine when Baillie describes the stalk. He had shot a buck that he had not seen the quality of and a few articles before there had been an article on indentifcation and saveing the good heads.
He should have sent the internal organs away to see what was the cause of the massive head were but he had eaten the liver for breakfast.
This is only as i remember it. It was a long time ago