On Dec. 3, 2018, William Lloyd of Wynne killed a 14-point buck in Lee County that netted a Boone and Crockett . I called my dad at 7:45 a.m. and told him what had happened." He had cameras at the private hunting lease he hunts with his brother, Josh. He decided he would try to take a deer with it. He waited until the deer got behind a tree and started to move, but Lefty heard him, and stopped cold in his tracks. "I wasn't going to kill him," he says. . And I knew I would get to do some duck hunting, now that the buck was dead. They both laid their ears back and stood their hair up, Hall says. I saw a big-bodied deer with extremely wide antlers that day, too, but I thought it was just a 6-point. The action was fast and furious right from the get-go. Currently, Watson is recovering from his injuries at home. Doctors said he only had weeks to live. It was very warm for November, extending upward of 70 degrees with a southeasterly wind. Countrywide, it isnt often you get to hunt in August, let alone with a rifle. Jonathan Moreland grew up hunting with a compound bow until, one day, he saw one of his fathers old recurves hanging on the wall. He hit hard, fracturing a bone in his right leg and three vertebrae in his back. The region is unique to Arkansas in that it doesn't have a traditional rifle season. It was another doe, and the big buck was right behind her. It was about 100 yards . The buck turned broadside, and Hall grunted to stop the buck for a top-pin shot. I was trying not to pass out. They monitored the buck for several weeks, and hunted some, but had no luck. It was an overwhelming feeling. At this point hes probably 30 yards, and this one doe starts stomping, so he turns and starts walking toward them.. It wouldn't be until spring 2013 that the bowhunter would find the matching sheds and see how big the rack really was. Watts shot the buck at about 50 yards with a rifle chambered in 6.5mm Creedmoor. At daybreak a doe busted through the cedar thicket with an eight-point suitor following close behind. Ive been putting food plots in, hunting hard and so much more for years, and it finally came together. I unhooked from the rope attaching me to the safety harness, and I made it two steps down. But this buck would measure much more than that. Clickhereto read about other big bucks killed this season. Literally a 600-yard radius. "At this point I started trying to kill him," Ryan notes. []. But the big buck, even with a good shot, bounded out of sight. He was directly downwind of me and lifted his head and sniffed," Ryan recalls. Deer: Balancing Expectations for Small Properties, Get to Know Your Neighbors for Better Deer Herd Management, Big Buck Profile: Reid Crawford Kansas Buck, Choosing Correct Magnification for Rifle Scope, Big Buck Profile: Troy Metzger's East Illinois Giant. After a while, this deer emerged, and slowly worked toward the blind. I finally decided to take a chance and take off work. He found the matching sheds of the buck from the year before, and he played his cards just right during the multi-year pursuit. All North American Whitetail subscribers now have digital access to their magazine content. He was probably in the 140s.". Lee, Im not going to be able to hunt with you this year, his father said. The deer ran about 200 yards and crashed. Lefty was gone., Then, our family received news that rocked me to my core, Lee said. He had high hopes for the afternoon hunt. Once there, they followed blood and found the deer in a logging road about 75 yards into the tracking job. Halls bruiser gross-scored 212 3/8. To his right and rear were stands of thick timber that opened in several spots, and to the left was more meadow with intermittent timber. At the 2009 Arkansas Big Buck Classic, the huge typical mainframe 5x5 rack officially gross-scored 182 7/8 inches and netted 174 2/8. The 2021-22 deer season is a wrap, and some big whitetails fell between the opening and closing bells. "I waited until about 2 p.m. to trail the buck with my cousin and some good friends," Ryan says. Right at last light, after several minutes of silence, a big buck eased out into a clearing 40 yards away. Zach Edey had 17 points and 19 rebounds as No. I had no idea the journey our family was about to embark on with this deer, Lee said. They followed blood about 150 yards to the downed buck. Later in the afternoon, he heard a thunderous crash in the clearcut. He grabbed his bow, drew back, settled the pin, and took the 22-yard, broadside shot. Its where I untangle my mind., Jason Lucas Illinois WhitetailScore: 168 inchesDate of Kill: Dec. 8, 2021Location: Central IllinoisWeapon: Mathews Triax compound bow. Being a right-handed shooter, this was an impossible shot. Give a Gift I glanced over and all I could see was antlers, he said. He was well outside his ears, and one of my brothers saw it, too, and he agreed that it was just a 6-point. I took a picture and texted it to my dad. But Ryan isn't just any hunter. His father remembered some advice from Grandpa Hill (Jimmy) about hunting near water on rainy days. They continued planning, but his fathers health continued declining. Hooper realizes his good fortune, even if the story belies just how good a shot he usually is. I only saw him one time on stand while bowhunting in 2011, and he skirted around me at about 60 yards.". It was a very sunny day with temps in the mid-50s. Lucky hat brings nurse Jefferson County monster, 159-inch buck killed by 15-year-old East Rankin Academy student, With hunting season in the books, its time to make plans to bring your bucks to the Louisiana Sportsman Big Buck Contest. To get started, click the link below to visit mymagnow.com and learn how to access your digital magazine. The area I hunt is really brushy and thick, and I couldnt get a good, clear shot. Eastern Arkansas farm country is home to a growing number of record-book deer. Ryan went back to school for the next week of class heartbroken over the buck having busted him. Does it get any better than that? "But he evaded me. Unfortunately, the spike spotted Latimer move, and started to ease off. The buck had morphed into a world-class bruiser right on Ryan's home turf. We purchased more cellular trail cameras. It ran about 50 yards and expired in the middle of the open field.While the buck scored 166 inches, it was the character that impressed her and others so much. And he was this time., My emotions were not what I had thought they would be in this moment, Lee continued. STACY FOWLER Danville, AR The big non-typical buck killed by Stacy Fowler of Danville is the largest deer taken in the Natural State last season. Whitetail deer harvest in W.Va. grows by more than 12 percent in 2022. He decided to leave work early, hiked into the woods, and climbed the same tree he had done so many times before. After all the hard work and patience, it finally paid off., Eric Mullinas Missouri MonsterScore: 174 inchesDate of Kill: Sept. 25, 2021Location: Pike County, Mo.Weapon: Elite compound bow. Hall just couldnt seem to be there at the same time as the buck. . "I didn't see him fall or hear him crash, but I could see the blood trail from the stand. The limited gun hunting and rich Delta soil combine to make this a hotspot for big deer. That was set to change on Aug. 22, though. . Sub-hed: When the Washington Blade caught up with Gisele Barreto Fetterman this month, she was looking forward to some upcoming travel plans Yeah I'll bet she was!!! I still cant believe it. Then, the buck disappeared again for more than a week.. I thought he was bigger than 190. The buck walked past him inside 20 yards. I noticed on my iPad that it was 1:50 p.m., so I figured Id better keep my eyes peeled in case something came by.. When you see a photo of a young hunter with a world-class deer, it's tempting to wonder if he or she "lucked" into it, or if perhaps an older hunter did most of the scouting and strategizing. It was my best chance to get a shot at this buck before he got off his pattern.. If you have a deer you would like us to consider listing here e-mail us with a picture, story and details. Typically, in regions influenced by the flood stages of the Mississippi River, the rut is later than the traditional Midwestern rut of mid-November. He weighed 235 pounds (field dressed), and New England is known for hunters who classify a trophy not by the antler size, but the dressed weight. A hunter who told authorities he killed and skinned what he thought were two coyotes, but later discovered they were a Connecticut family's pet German shepherds, has been criminally charged. Michigan: 31 deer per square mile. When I got him he weighed over 300 pounds on the hoof, as suspected. Knowing the buck was too far away for a shot, Murdaugh carefully stalked down the fence line toward where hed last seen the deer. He bolted and was jumping over treetops in the clear cut and finally after 80 yards he jumped into one last fallen treetop and stopped, he said. In addition to the single short drop tine, the deer had two split brow tines one with three splits. When the buck is adding 20-30 inches of antler per year, the stakes just keep getting higher. Justin Kamps first learned of this deer in 2019, but it wasnt on their radar. Wilson sat back down in his tripod stand, realizing how he stuck out in the huge cutover. The W.A. By late afternoon, about 15 deer were out in the open, including a couple of nice bucks. His father passed away in October. Bucks like this in New Hampshire on public land are far and few, Martinson said. He finished the season with 11 encounters, but passed the buck each time in hopes of it living another year. 3 Men Cited for Poaching 34-Point Buck. The hunt unfolded on Nov. 28. His late grandfather started JJ Ranch in 1961, but passed in 2009, and its been worked by the family ever since. Only 22, Wilson knows matching this kill will not be easy, not in Pike County. I turned in his direction and prepared to shoot. This means you have the option to read your magazine on most popular phones and tablets. The buck ran about 35 yards, and Lucas watched him fall. Then there were the two drop tines, with the longest being 7 inches off the left beam. Haynes Shelton discusses what to look for when choosing the magnification range when it comes to the scope on your deer rifle. Unbeknownst to Ryan, the buck would live three more years and make huge jumps each year. That errant shot allowed him to stay in the stand, wait another hour or so and shoot and kill a 183-inch 16-point non-typical with double drop tines. He posted trail cameras, and confirmed it was him. However, the 10-pointer he got was the biggest buck hes ever seen on the property. It worked. After several tense seconds, the deer offered a quartering-away shot opportunity, and Hill took it. "About 50 yards behind the doe, there he was. Despite having broken off a 9-inch tine on his left side when he crashed, there was no ground shrinkage. What is the world record for the biggest deer shot? Before the hunt, Lance and his dad were talking and couldnt decide on which stand to sit. Morelands first encounter with the buck occurred on a hunt early in the season. The DNR estimated 574,000 hunters spent 8.7 million days afield during the 2017 deer season, and harvested 376,000 deer for a nearly 50% success rate. Ryan estimated the deer now was 7 1/2 years old. This is one big deer. We called the buck Spider Man because we had hundreds of velvet pictures of him with a spider web in front of the camera.. He was 28 yards, quartering away, when he stopped. He logged many days on stand from dark to dark until mid-November. He fractured a bone in his right . It is my biggest to date. My dad started taking me when I was three years old. He was hunting hill country in a 65-acre hay meadow, which was part of the larger 160-acre cattle operation. To their surprise, he wasnt there. Mississippi County is in the far-northeast corner and borders both Tennessee and Missouri. 'I remained in the stand for several minutes to gather my thoughts and calm down, ' Mikell says. [], This is an easy two pot meal, one for the venison stroganoff and one for the starch that can be prepared at home or at the camp. I would hunt this deer in the afternoon and the wind would be blowing 1-2 miles per hour and swirl, Latimer said. The whole time I was in the stand waiting for my brother, I was sitting there thinking that I would go and find just another of those 100-inch 8-points and that Id been seeing things. Trust me: I thanked the good Lord numerous times for this buck and for letting me miss that first buck, he said. He encountered the buck a second time soon after. I couldn't get a shot.'. I would leave late Thursday night, and all my friends ragged me about it. Chase Watson shot the biggest buck he's ever killed two weeks ago while hunting from a treestand on his family's farm in Arkansas. In regions without great habitat, many deer seem to plateau out after age 4 1/2 and don't make the huge leaps in antler development. Hunters in Texas have killed 200 bucks since 2010 that made book. He hunted hard, but the deer evaded him. It scored 164 6/8 and ranked 9th overall. That beat the record set by Ayecock in 2015 with a Drew County buck . I moved 150 yards downwind of his bedding area and started rattling, Lee said. All told, Moreland would see the buck a total of six times before the deer slipped up. Arkansas doesnt jump to top of mind as a big-buck destination, but that didnt stop bowhunter Preston Hall. The day before I killed it, two of my brothers and I were hunting in the same area and they both killed two smaller bucks, you know, like about 100 inches. Buster was a magnificent animal and exceeded our expectations, Kamps said. It was a 5 X 7 main-frame 12, with one one-inch drop tine and several sticker points off the brow tines and other tines.. Lefty showed up on camera after a long Tennessee rifle season.. Dan Taylor, 33, of Shinglehouse, McKean County, bagged a massive 10-point with a 19-inch spread on the opening day of rifle season in north central Pennsylvania. He'd lost a split G-2, but he'd grown a drop tine and matching split brow tines.". He was running away from me, and it was a snap shot. This monster Arkansas buck is rumored to gross 212 inches with a net of 195 inches on the Boone & Crockett scoring system and could be certified as the new state record. They didnt have any encounters with the deer until after the rut. County: Hunter: Date : 221 1/8: non: Washington: Richard Little: People couldnt believe he had drop tines coming off his main beams., Jeremy Martinsons New Hampshire GiantScore: 166 inchesDate of Kill: Nov. 1, 2021Location: Merrimack County, N.H.Weapon: .50-caliber CVA muzzleloader. Purdue clinched the Big Ten regular-season title outright earlier in the day when Illinois beat That's based on photos from 2010, when he clearly wasn't over 3 1/2. I was locked down by the doe that was really close.". Eight hours later, one of the trail cameras captured photos of the buck, who seemed to be acting as if nothing had happened. My brother and I counted 28 points, what youd call deer camp points, but the guy who scored it at the taxidermist shop said it was officially 25 points, Wilson, 22, said. 5 Purdue outlasted Wisconsin 63-61. Many mallards were saved during his absence from the flooded timber. Heres a look at 10 of the most flexible long-range hunting cartridges. He threw up his head and was looking around. Lefty fell right there. To our knowledge, no one had seen this buck, and there are no trail cam pictures of him, Hooper said. So, Lance went with that. After the day Id hunt him, he would always show up the next afternoon. Check out these 10 monster bucks that were taken throughout the country. 'I'm sure the entire encounter only took a few minutes, but it seemed an eternity. With such success behind him, Jon felt all of his hunting dreams already had come true. This, however, wasn't the last of the action. After the excitement settled, he climbed down, called his friends and waited for them to arrive to assist with the recovery. Dad came alive. The deer closed within range, and Jared took the 27-yard, quartering-away shot. With his head down, did I hit an antler? Gordon Whittington heads north to his personal Missouri farm for some crossbow action. The deer had fallen, but gotten back up and continued running. And dont forget about theMississippi Sportsman Big Buck Photo Contest, which is free and offers great monthly Sportsman Gear prizes. Since then, I've only killed deer with my bow. The buck was definitely dead. In the meantime, the Moreland brothers continued their own search. Follow along to see exactly how. He settled in for the afternoon sit and waited for deer movement. I couldnt see behind me so Im not sure where he came out from but he was walking up out of that drainage ditch. "All my buddies were expecting me to be jumping up and down when I found the buck," Ryan says, "but I didn't. However, dreams are fueled by high-stakes whitetails, and the passion helped Ryan put his tag on the state's largest non-typical ever arrowed. "I got down after 15 minutes and went to the truck and went and brushed in the duck pit," the bowhunter recalls. He was quartering to my right and I let him put another 100 yards between us so I could get turned. Although he doesnt remember the fall, he does remember picking himself up, walking over to the buck, and putting another arrow in him. The buck was as massive as he'd looked on camera, and the biggest Moreland had ever killed. Both bases were right at 5 inches, and the main beams were 23 inches, Wilson said. Still, he never caught up to the deer during the 2018 season. He stood behind a big pecan tree for about five minutes. I was trying to get another arrow in him, but he kind of flopped over in some brush and I couldnt get another [shot] from the stand.. MILWAUKEE (AP) Cleveland Browns owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam have agreed to purchase Marc Lasry's 25% stake of the Milwaukee Bucks in a deal that puts the value of the NBA franchise at $3.5 billion, two people with knowledge of the negotiations said Monday. The giant non-typical sported a typical 1211 frame, but was scored as a non-typical because of an abundance of small kicker points. Whispering 'fire in the hole ' while floating the crosshairs on the spot, I gently squeezed the trigger until the recoil removed the buck from my view. After a wait that seemed like an eternity, the doe finally started walking . In 2010 the buck was just an 8-point. Bowhunting is the primary management tool in this region. Hall hunts some swampy ground, and some of it is navigable by water. Last year, we thought he was a really great deer, but this year, hes a world-class 8-pointer. Id have him on camera morning and evening. In this edition of "From The Stand," Pat Hogan explains the importance of being aware of proper clearance when using your bow or crossbow out in the field. It was taken on a morning hunt during the modern gun Christmas season. . He was hunting an area mixed with crops, hardwoods and thick cover. It's a mirror-image 180-inch mainframe 4x4 with 34 inches of non-typical points. The story of Loyd's Arkansas buck shows why effective deer management in many states is creating the potential for record-book . The way I see it, this deer was my deer the good Lord made sure of that.. One young buck the family called Lefty frequented the area. Morelands arrow went in perfectly through the top of one lung, but hit a rib on the opposite side. I started getting pictures of him on my cameras. Ryan's foresight and patience were mature beyond his years. He went ahead and came in to stay with his doe, and I got the shot off quickly.. Kamps was hunting along some thick bedding cover with steep bluffs around him. I killed him in the mock scrape I created., The deer ran 30 yards and tipped over. He closed the remaining distance needed to get within range, dropped into a kneeling position and took the shot. We all shared an emotional moment. I settled the crosshairs where I needed to place the bullet and steadied the rifle. By 2021, there was no doubt this was the largest 4x4 hed ever hunted. Eventually, a doe walked right between the two challengers. At 16 yards, Mikell took aim at the giant and released his arrow. Arkansas deer usually score around 120 to 130 inches, Moreland says. Moreland, with his Arkansas archery buck. Instead, they hunted elsewhere in hopes of allowing the deer to live another year. Copyright 1998 - 2023 Mississippi Sportsman, Inc. All rights reserved. As he left his tree stand to get a better shot at the buck, the strap on one of his climbing sticks broke, and he fell some 17 feet to the ground. In this edition of "Big Buck Profile," Gordon Whittington talks with young whitetail hunter Reid Crawford about his trophy buck taken in 2017.
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