Big buck weighed more than 200 pounds
Ervin Smith of Marion, N.C. killed a McDowell County trophy buck on Thanksgiving morning. The 14-point buck was big in the body too. It’s the biggest deer he’s ever killed.
Smith killed the buck on private land, and was feeling a little bit down about putting in a lot of hours in the stand without success up to that point.
“I got in the stand real early. Probably a good hour before daylight. I was feeling a little disheartened because I’d had some slow days. I’d seen a photo of that deer on one of my trail cameras a week before, and it was a daylight photo. So that helped motivate me to get in the stand before Thanksgiving dinner,” he said.
Smith had another deer showing up more regularly on his trail cam. That buck, a 7-pointer, is really what Smith was hoping and expecting to see that morning. This one was on his hit list, and it’s one he knew he had the best chance at seeing.
When he got in the stand, he heard a lot of typical noise that squirrels and birds make. He said they were all around him. So he never heard the buck when it came in to shooting range.
Smith did not realize it was the 14-point buck at first
Once Smith saw antlers, he switched to focusing on where to shoot the deer. At that point, he thought he was looking at the 7-point buck. Once the deer stopped walking, he had a good shot on its shoulder at about 60 yards. Smith pulled the trigger on his Savage .270 and the deer went down.
“When he fell, and the whole time I was walking to him, I was still thinking it was the 7-pointer. So once I got to him and got my hands on him, I was really happy to see it was the 14. The buck weighed well over 200 pounds. I got some help dragging him out. He was a really big deer. Once I got back to my house, I had a good crowd of people there to see him. It was a blessed Thanksgiving for me,” he said.
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