ZackDoyle

Zack

Doyle

Locust

Cabarrus County, NC

11/3/24

5pm

Mathews Lift 29.5

23 yards

Stand

Ran 40 yards

35

I have hundreds of photos and videos of this buck from 2023 and 2024, and passed on him numerous times in 2023.

10

No

Evening

Almost exactly 24 hours to the minute after taking one great buck, a deer I’ve been watching for two seasons made his final mistake. I passed on this deer probably 10 times last year hoping he might really blow up this year. He didn’t put on nearly as much bone as I’d hoped, but he sure packed on the pounds. By far the largest bodied NC buck I have taken at 227lbs.

 

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