The rifle has five caliber offerings, two barrel choices and three different riser stocks. There were 40 does in the field and he pinpointed one. The buck had his eyes set on a doe, and before long they began running around the opposite side of Stephens stand. The W.A. Hayden Ashworth was in his treestand just 15 yards in the woods when this big 9-pointer gave him a shot. Don't miss a story! Haynie was born and raised in Richmond County, Virginia. Joshua prefers still-hunting because it allows him to cover ground and scout at the same time, but he carries a folding chair on his back in case he finds a suitable place to take a stand. LaRue's Ethan Alexander talks about the Siete's features with Game & Fish's Adam Heggenstaller at SHOT Show 2023 in Las Vegas. The 202223 deer harvest, down 8% from the last ten-year average of 200,351, was likely impacted by above average hard mast conditions across much of the state which generally leads to decreased deer movements and lower harvests. Dustin Prievo. ", The buck was aged at 8 1/2 years old.Josh Honeycutt. Our third monster rag-horn was not supposed to be where he ended up and in fact the hunter had already given up on him had he not decided to stay home and have coffee with his dogs he would never have seen his personal buck of a lifetime. "My partner would have shot him, but he was on the wrong side of the fence. The bucks hopped the fence and entered the public parcel. The G2s were just over 12 inches long and the G3s were just over 13 inches. Winchester's new Big Bore ammo, available in 10 mm, .44 Mag., .357 Mag., and .45 Colt, is specifically designed for big bears in bear country. Once she made her intentionsor lack thereofclear, the buck gave up and slowly made his way toward Hayden. The deer has been rough-scored at 196 5/8 typical Pope and Young. The proud father shares three children, Adam (13), Wade (12) and Claire (8) with his wife, Jamie. LaRue's Ethan Alexander talks about the Siete's features with Game & Fish's Adam Heggenstaller at SHOT Show 2023 in Las Vegas. It is the potential world record, not to mention potential state record, for the Long Hunter Society, the national muzzleloading big-game records program. "Five minutes later," he says, "I see a buck working his way towards a scrape and licking branch 40 yards away. Scott opted to hunt across the street from the property while Stephen made his way up the beaten tote road roughly a quarter of a mile to his stand. It was the biggest buck Masoner had ever killed and he even admitted it was the widest spread on a set of antlers hed ever seen on any deer with his own eyes. The majority of these came from Maverick (28), La Salle (24), Webb (23), Dimmit (20) and Kleberg (11) counties. This year was different. All Rights Reserved. It scored 232-4/8 non-typical. "I usually try to go farther away from people, but since other people have been walking farther into woods, I decided to go the opposite direction and hunt close," he said. Ruger's popular American bolt-action rifle has been a hit with hunters for years. I drew back and let it fly. Gun Stocks; Gun Trigger Guards; . It took Hunt about 20 minutes to walk to his hunting spot. He wasn't disappointed. ''. Date of Kill: Aug. 22, 2021. Shed hunting isn't easy, but can offer unique opportunities. The buck ran about 30 yards and crashed. Then as fall approached a trail cam revealed that old Willies rack had put on mass and additional kickers to make him a true Virginia giant. The next morning he let his dogs out for a bit and when he went to let them back in there stood Willie Chappell some 85 yards away with the sun glistening off his majestic rack. "We are very blessed to have family and friends who open their property up to these boys," Wallace says. They found it within 100 yards of where it was shot. On Nov. 17, after lunch, he climbed into an elevated blind along the edge of a cut cotton field. The open area bordered a large block of timber, and he expected the deer to enter the field and pass through within range. A buck he shot in Wyoming County was scored by three official scorers Wednesday and came out at 191 2/8 inches, McDaniel said. Date: 01-24-2023 Case Style: United States of America v. Jacob Tyler Hensley Case Number: 5:22-cr-00078 Judge: Karen Caldwell Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky (Fayette County) for rent corpus christi Kent Heitholt was found beaten and strangled shortly after 2 a.m. on November 1, 2001, in the parking lot of the Columbia Daily Tribune, where he worked as . Although Willies home range was primarily on his cousins 2,400-acre farm, the only live sightings by Sutphin were on his 60-acre plot on the edge of town 2.5 miles away a sanctuary because it has the key elements that deer need including quality cover, water, a food plot and minimal hunting pressure. Jason Rudden had never laid eyes on this buck until his trail camera captured three images of it on the night of Nov. 13. He was kind of a local rock star there with people who hunt and people going to and from the resort, Masoner said in an interview for West Virginia Outdoors. (Photo courtesy of Max Mongrello). During 2015, Willie was only seen on trail cameras, and in 2016 there were no sightings or pictures. ROANOKE, W.Va. During the two week West Virginia buck hunting season, Travis Masoner of Morgantown and his daughter were hoping to kill a buck which had developed quite a following in the . Around 3:45 p.m., Barrera was in his stand, and before he could nock an arrow, a couple of does came walking in, and passed through the area. This monstrous whitetail from Virginia definitely grabbed our attention when it began circulating on social media and hunting sites recently, and the mystery behind its validity was quite the topic for a while. I was going hunting.". "I knew it was a big-bodied deer," he says. On Oct. 22, with the wind out of the southeast, warm temperatures and overcast skies, Develle contemplated the right move. Contact an Edgar County Land Specialist. We'd had very warm weather and this buck just would leave his bed in a cedar swamp during the day. He arrowed the 158 7/8-inch buck on Oct. 28 from a treestand on the edge of a standing bean field. In that time, hes tagged four nice Kansas bucks, with the most recent being a main-frame 9-pointer with two additional scoreable points. Learn more in the video above, with Remington's Joel Hodgdon and Game & Fish Editorial Director Adam Heggenstaller at SHOT Show 2023 in Las Vegas. On Nov. 24, after hunting the buck for seven straight days, Gatlin got his opportunity. Joshua decided to stick it out. "I've killed Pope and Young bucks, but this one just meant more," Develle says. After settling in for an evening sit at 3:30 p.m., Hayden saw numerous deer moving, but no good bucks. Dustin Prievo. Spot and range targets without wasting valuable seconds switching between gear with Luepold's new rangefinder binocular, the BX-4 Range HD. "I could hear him running a doe and grunting across the cornfield before shooting light. Franz Buck 261 7/8"https://youtu.be/mg7Z4juaGo2. He didnt have long to wait. That Sunday morning was the only time I had a picture of him in daylight.". Bucktober 211 4/8"https://youtu.be/Tp7mL4bAzDsAll rights to. I got back in my stand about nine-oclock and not long after that he came cruising through in an open area I could see. Do Not Sell My Personal Information It was his buck. Any guess on what this thing scores? Everybody was after this particular buck. It was now Develle's turn to shoot. The summer of 2017 was ending and still there were no pictures of Willie. Once within range I stopped him with a grunt call.". (Steve Blackburn) CHARLESTON, WV (WCHS/WVAH) With just a couple of days left to go in the buck firearm season in West Virginia, hunters have killed more than . "The weather wasn't going too good, with temps in the 70s and a bad wind direction for my stand, but there was no choice. As Wayne's brothers headed to the rear of the property, Wayne made his way into his son's stand for the evening hunt. "Uncle Kevin told me he could see five deer out of his window," Adam says. Archery hunters took 16% of the total deer harvest while muzzleloading deer hunters and firearms hunters took 24% and 60% of the total harvest, respectively. They dont even mind the 2 hour drive from their hometown of Virginia Beach to Fort Pickett in Blackstone Virginia to do so. He left his stand to help her with the field dressing and recovery, then returned to his spot. The heaviest deer that's ever been shot on our place. It's the biggest deer I've ever been up and close to. Typical: 186 1/8 inches. Along with being a new state record, it's the 10th largest typical deer taken in the last 20 years in the United States and the 25th all-time typical deer killed in North America, according to Pope & Young. And knowing that I can pass this way of life on to my kids and family means the world to me." Weather during the 2022-23 deer season was also highly variable with unseasonably warm temperatures or precipitation falling on the opening day of multiple seasons (archery and muzzleloader). At that point the buck carried a 10-point rack with several kickers. In the last 10 years, 733,868 white-tailed bucks have been harvested in the Bluegrass State. Josh Honeycutt. Sign up for daily stories delivered to your inbox. The only thing Wallace cares about more than conservation is his family, and last weekend was a big one for the Wallace clan. I dropped down and slipped back to my blind to grab my gun.". Average Price Per Acre of Raw Land: $4,314 All Game & Fish subscribers now have digital access to their magazine content. Personal defense in the hunting woods could involve taking down a charging bear. Lance Hill's South Carolina Stud. In the above video, NWTF's Jason Burckhalter talks about the group's accomplishments and future plans with Game & Fish Editorial Director Adam Heggenstaller at SHOT Show 2023 in Las Vegas. Its total gross score was 191 4/8. During the lead up to the season, it seemed like everybody in the local community, along with a lot of outsiders, had become well aware of this particular buck. But it finally cooled off, and the hunter caught the buck making its way from the swamp to a food plot. Sheds from this great Virginia buck were found over the past three seasons within an 800-yard radius. The hunt, even though it involved several obstacles, with other people on the property and coyotes interfering, was as textbook as it could have been. The buck was supposedly killed around Chase City on October 30th on a large tract of land that borders the town limits where hunting is not allowed. Hunters in Texas have killed 200 bucks since 2010 that made book. In the above video, NWTF's Jason Burckhalter talks about the group's accomplishments and future plans with Game & Fish Editorial Director Adam Heggenstaller at SHOT Show 2023 in Las Vegas. NON-HUNTERS ATTEMPT DEER CALLS IN HILARIOUS VIDEO. As it got light enough to see, I saw the doe first and then he popped out. The highest-scoring deer taken overall, by quite a margin, was a big non-typical buck killed on Nov. 20 in Kanawha County by Glenn Pauley. We watched him walk by us only six yards away.". The NWTF is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The top Virginia buck in Boone and Crockett is a 38-point Buckingham County trophy killed in 1986 by James Shumaker of New Canton. This was when Wayne really got a grasp of the actual size of this beautiful whitetail. Hitting the buck in the spine, it dropped in its tracks; Sears followed up with a second shot to the vitals. Then he started wobbling and going in a circle, and I knew I got him. The new 7mm Precision Rifle Cartridge from Hornady is available in three loads (160 gr. With all this in mind, heres a look at three of the most remarkable Old Dominion non-typical bucks taken in the state in 2017. The buck's score, using Pope & Young Club standards, was 156 3/8. MECHANICSVILLE Its weathered, dark-brown rack is both majestic and massive, with 35 points branching out in every direction. Now she works in the outdoor industry as the Hunt/Fish Community Manager for Sawyer. Carter's buck is shy of the state record non-typical, a 212 1/8-inch deer taken in 1986 by bowhunter Jerry Hill. In this region of Virginia, 10-point bucks are rare, but one buck Haynie saw on a trail camera in 2015 on those hard-hunted 300 acres struck his fancy. Not being completely sure, however, RJ left the woods and returned several hours later with his kids to find the buck lying right where he last saw him. | The buck sported a 25-inch inside spread and a 27-inch outside spread. He took a moment to say a prayer and count his blessings, with the warm feeling that his late grandpa was there to share the moment with him as well. Brandon Butler. The 12-point buck had a spread of about 32 inches. Jim Wilson of Chase City, Va., killed the deer on a private tract on Oct. 30 during the archery season with his Parker Enforcer crossbow. Her list of impressive outdoor accolades has more recently come to include "big-buck hunter." This was her first archery buck, and she was hunting alongside her hunting mentor, Paul Baker. The mainframe 12-pointer with a total of 20 scoreable points definitely had genetics on his side with 7-inch bases, 9-inch brow tines and 14-inch G3s. His spot is between an alfalfa field and a standing cornfield. Rotarius credits his dad, Jimmy Rotarius, and hunting buddy, Clay Turner, for the tireless work they do on the property to grow big deer. The little 8 came right to him, but the big 9 was more interested in the doe. Instead of heading deep into the woods, he hunted a more-open area near the edge of a field and high-traffic road. After the 60-day drying period, Norm Parchewsky, Robert Allemand, and Allan Holtvogt, all Boone and Crockett official measurers, scored the buck at 213-1/8 in a ceremony attended by more than 400 people. The National Wild Turkey Federation's mission to conserve wild turkey and preserve hunting heritage is still going strong after a half-century. The new Frontier, available in 8x42 and 10x42, has all the range-finding capabilities a hunter needs. "We do everything together. The following morning, Rudden was on stand as day broke. The deer began to walk away and Wayne prayed for him to change directions. As Delta Waterfowl's Regional Director for Indiana, Michigan and Ohio, Wallace puts a lot of rubber on the road and spends more nights away from home than he'd like. At 67 years old, and having been hunting since the age of 14, Wayne says he has never had the shakes like he experienced after shooting this buck. The buck started feeding in the same food plot and making his way toward Edmonds, but turned and went around her through some patches of thicker cover that didn't allow for a shot. There are a lot of big deer pictures floating around the Internet these days. 2023 Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources. He was following her into a wooded draw when Plunkett shot him with a .280 Ackley rifle she built. 2 spot on our list belongs to James Jordan, who killed this 206 1/8 B&C buck in Wisconsin way back in 1914, long before trophy hunting or deer management were mainstream practices. Hunting for shed antlers can be like searching for a needle in a hay stack, but experienced searchers have ways to narrow down the search. He put his head down, grabbed a few bites of corn and kept moving. Gatlin ranged the deer then squeezed off the 128-yard shot, which hit the mark. Available in 180- and 200-grain sizes. | The non-typical buck scored 259 7/8 Boone & Crockett points and 290 15/16 on the Virginia scale. "With a dozen sits last year and not seeing any deer, I got discouraged and somewhat abandoned it. His sheds were found each year which kept the legend alive. As you can see the buck fits the eye test for sure and has it all. Bucky Sargent of Logan, W.Va. with the buck estimated to be around 10 years old killed at the height of the 2022 rut. Winchester's Nathan Robinson talks features with Game & Fish Editorial Director Adam Heggenstaller at SHOT Show 2023 in Las Vegas. Joshua planned to go deep into the property and his father went about half the distance. The buck stepped out into a cut cornfield at 7:20 a.m. Amanda promptly shouldered her rifle and placed a perfect shot that dropped the buck in his tracks. I pulled out my phone, zoomed in as far as I could and couldn't believe my eyes. Before long, they arrived and joined Jessica in tracking the buck. Alvey Collins, age 68, has been carrying his son Joshua, now 36, along hunting since he was 5 years old. Unfortunately, he quickly realized he'd forgotten his call in the truck. Bennett said he started hunting the small, 20-acre property where the buck was shot 7 years ago, when his father Scott obtained the landowner's permission. Potential only because the deer hasn't been entered for Long Hunter consideration yet and the state judging won't come until late September in Williamsburg. He continued to call periodically through the afternoon, but saw no signs of deer. He fell to a well-placed arrow from a compound bow. In the video above, Leopold's Shawn Skipper highlights the features of the exciting new optics with Game & Fish Editorial Director Adam Heggenstaller at SHOT Show 2023 in Las Vegas. The rifle has five caliber offerings, two barrel choices and three different riser stocks. Sutphin was awestruck for a moment but then quickly fetched his old .50-caliber Knight muzzleloader that he had fortunately sighted in just a week before. At 7:05 a.m., he watched the buck enter one of his food plots about 90 yards away from his stand and start chasing a doe. The 360 Buckhammer cartridge is designed for lever-action rifles and will be available in two Remington Core-Lokt loads. ", Hayden credits the first good cold snap for the action he experienced.
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