Free-ranging bucks illustrate the benefits of letting the young guys walk
Shanda and Rodney Moore with the impressive Trinity County bruiser the lady hunter brought down on the afternoon of November 4. The 6 1/2-year-old 21 pointer registers official TBGA scores of 185 7/8 gross and 175 6/8 net. It’s among the biggest whitetails ever killed by a lady hunter in the Pineywoods. COURTESY PHOTO / RODNEY MOORE
Montgomery archer Everett Sunday arrowed his gnarly 18 pointer shortly after daylight on 200 acres in Houston County. Sunday believes the the 5 1/2-year-old buck had been brawling with another buck before it charged out of a yaupon thicket on the heels of a 10 pointer. The archer drilled the buck at 15 yards. COURTESY PHOTO / EVERETT SUNDAY
Dimmit County hunter Riley Todd says he had been watching this 7 1/2-year-old typical for three seasons. Despite a severe drought in South Texas, the free-ranging 12 pointer still managed to grow a remarkable set of antlers. COURTESY PHOTO / TEXASBUCKREGISTRY.COM
There is much to love about a Texas deer season.
Never mind the descriptive prose about crisp fall mornings and rattlin’ horns. Or the magic of witnessing the dawn of a new day from the confines of a tall tower blind overlooking good deer country.
I’m a bigger fan of tales about whopper bucks. Especially fascinating are reports of free-ranging animals that somehow manage...
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