However, the true size of the deer is questionable and unconfirmable. Whitt said his friend found the deer in a draw or ravine about noon that day, a Sunday. The next morning one of his friends joined the search, as well as a reservation game warden and another man.
He said he looked alone until dark without finding the animal.
The animal disappeared in the far distance, Whitt said, losing the arrow as he ran.įour hours later, Whitt began his search for the deer. His arrow carried a 100-grain Simmons broadhead. He said he shot the deer virtually straight down, the shot striking behind the left shoulder and 3 inches from the spine. Whitt said he had to hold his bowstring (he shoots a Mathews bow) back 10 minutes while the deer approached.
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“I killed him at five paces,” he said, from a portable stand about 25 feet high in a tree. He shot the deer on a Saturday morning as it moved from water to a bedding area, Whitt said. That he has hunted deer and other big game in about 20 states. He says he and his friends hunt with bows only and Whitt says he was hunting on the reservation last November with three friends from Arkansas. That would be a shade over 300 on the hoof, and that is a very, very big deer.Īnd a Toledo Blade columnist suggested the photographs were outright fakes: Hams said he believes the biggest deer he’s ever checked in his state weighed in about 250 pounds field dressed. A guy kills the biggest, fattest whitetail almost anyone has ever heard of and his name isn’t plastered all over the country? Not very likely. The commission came up with a name, but was unable to identify that person as a permit holder in Nebraska. He said he was told the hunter was from Truman, Arkansas. Hams doubts its authenticity, for the same reasons I do. I contacted Kit Hams at the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and he said their staff has seen this photo many times. Camera angles and advantageous poses make the buck appear to be much larger than it is. It’s a big deer, to be sure, but it is not 412 pounds or anywhere close. Some readers have been kind enough to send me photos of the 412-pound buck from Nebraska that is making the rounds on the internet. Media skeptics asserted that the deer was far smaller than claimed, as exemplified by this excerpt from a Utica Observer-Dispatch article: The earliest versions of these e-mailed pictures said the deer was taken in Nebraska, but later versions changed the site of the kill to “along Clarion River in North West Pennsylvania.” Internet pundits maintained that the images were faked because the deer’s coloration appeared inconsistent and/or its antlers looked too small. white-tailed buck deer killed by a hunter.
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