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Free-ranging bucks illustrate the benefits of letting the young guys walk
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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 to grow magnificent…