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Persistence and a little trickery help archer close the deal with evasive East Texas buck
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A heavy 12-pointer, Rocker was green scored at 161 gross by Pope and Young scorer Ben Bartlett. Corley, 24, claims he collected more than 500 pictures the buck last season but never laid eyes on the deer once. COURTESY PHOTO / CLAYTON CORLEY -
COURTESY PHOTO / CLAIRE CORLEY Clayton Corley’s decision to make a new access route to his hunting area ultimately gave him a shot at the evasive buck he’d been chasing for nearly two hunting seasons.
Here’s an entertaining deer hunting story fresh out of the woods of eastern Texas that hunters everywhere can learn a few good lessons from. Clayton Corley spent nearly two years getting his education.
Corley is a Lufkin archer who arrowed his first deer with a bow when he was only 8 years old. Corley claims he has brought down close to two dozen other whitetails since, but none to compare to…