Misty Weber kills 16-point buck in Guilford County
When Misty Weber squeezed the trigger of her 7mm-08 rifle on Dec. 13, the second thing on her mind — after making sure she was on target — was hoping that the buck was a really good one.
The Guilford County landowner whose place she was hunting had taken Weber, a Gibsonville, N.C., resident, and her 9-year-old daughter, Ryley, to a two-seat stand and reminded her, “Don’t shoot anything small.”
So when she zeroed in on a buck a few minutes after 5:15 that afternoon, she could only see one side of its rack, and she could see four points.
“The whole time I was thinking, ‘I hope he’s big enough.’ I was hoping he was an 8-pointer,” she said.
When Weber and her daughter reached the buck, which dropped on the spot, 120 yards from the stand, she discovered, oh yeah, he was big enough.
The big non-typical she found carried a 5×5 main-frame rack with three sticker points on each side. A Buckmasters scorer measured the buck at 159 1/8. His measurements equate to a Boone & Crockett score of 153 3/8.
“We went down to him, and he was a lot bigger than an 8,” Weber said.
16-point buck had “junk” everywhere
Weber’s buck had a 16 1/2-inch inside spread, tines as long as 10 inches, and 20 5/8 inches of non-typical points, divided almost evenly between the two sides. But quite literally, “junk” is sticking out just about everywhere — even the typical points go everywhere.
“A member of my family knew this deer was there. They had been following him on trail cameras,” Weber said. “But I didn’t know he was there.
“When we got to the gentleman’s house where we were hunting, I was going one place, and he said, ‘Come with me,’ and he took us to another place. We went there and he had a two-man stand.”
At 5:15, she saw the buck emerge from the woods and begin walking along a tree line.
“I was looking at him, and he kept popping his head up and down, eating all the way,” she said. “We could see that he had four points on one side, so I was hoping he was an 8.
“I went to shoot, and ‘Click!’ I didn’t have the bolt locked all the way down. I got it done, got the gun back up on my shoulder and shot.”
The bullet went through the buck’s left shoulder, passed through the heart and exited from the left side of the neck.
“We’ve had this rifle for years,” Weber said. “I really know the gun. Every deer I’ve shot with it, I’ve never lost one.” My husband has asked me if I want a new gun. I told him he could get a new gun; I was keeping this one.”
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