Marlboro County 9-point, 263 pounds.

Deer of a lifetime

I’ve been playing cat-and-mouse with this Marlboro County buck for the past 2 years. And it all came together for me on the evening of Oct. 4, 2025. The 9-point buck weighed 263 pounds, and I will gladly say this will probably be the biggest deer, body-wise, I ever lay my hands on.

It’s definitely the deer of a lifetime!

–Austin Blake Shelley