Twelve-year-old Josey Norris earned the nickname of “double header” during Boone and Crockett Club’s Jack Steele Parker Generation Next Youth Banquet.

Her double header was not in baseball, however. She earned the nickname because she harvested two bucks that were accepted into Boone and Crockett Club’s record book.

“We knew it was a big buck, but we didn’t think it was that big. Someone from the taxidermy estimated the score,” she said of the first buck she harvested in 2019 at age nine. “Once a buck is harvested, it has to wait 60 days for the horns to shrink.”

Her first buck measured 175 6/8 inches, well above the minimum of 160 inches to qualify for the record book.

“When you score a buck, you calculate the length of the points, how long the main beam is, the circumference of the main beam and how wide the horns are from one antler to the other,” Norris said.

The second buck she harvested measured 161 inches, earning her a second spot in the books.

“Within a three year period, from 2019-2021, she qualified with two different bucks,” said Josey’s mom, Tobina Norris. “She was in the record book twice during those years. All of the other kids just had one. It was kind of a unique experience that she got two in there.”

Josey attended the Boone and Crockett Club’s Jack Steele Parker Generation Next Youth Banquet from July 21-23 in Springfield, Mo. The banquet was part of the 31st Big Game Awards celebration.

The triennial Big Game Awards program recognizes the biggest heads, horns and antlers from North America that were accepted into Boone and Crockett Club’s records from the previous three years. In addition to the top-ranking trophies, any youth who harvests a record book animal when they were 16 or younger is invited to the Jack Steele Parker Generation Next Youth Banquet.

“I think everybody was extremely happy about it,” Tobina Norris said. “The fact that her second one was also record worthy … it was fun for her to be ‘that girl’ at the awards ceremony.”

While Josey said she’s excited about the recent accolades, she has her sight set on the opening of youth season this weekend.

“The youth season for this year opens this Saturday of Labor Day weekend, so me and my two brothers are planning to go hunting, and hopefully we get another record buck,” she said.

Her two younger brothers, ages eight and 10, are motivated to follow in their big sister’s footsteps.

“Josey’s brothers have their sites on record bucks now that Josey has been in it twice,” Tobina Norris said.

Josey is the daughter of Chuck and Tobina Norris.