Fishermen pattern fish, and hunters often pattern deer. At least Carl Brown of Lady’s Island does.
He killed an 8-point buck and a 5-point buck on a small lot close to a major highway early in the season, and a few days later, got permission to hunt a similar lot.
Brown couldn’t wait to try out his new spot, and after a short weather delay, his suspicions proved correct. On the evening of Oct. 6, he arrowed a 200-pound, 8-point buck that measured approximately 115 inches.
Taking his big buck was by design, but it was luck that his entry was drawn as the winner of the South Carolina Sportsman’s October Bag-a-Buck Contest presented by River’s West.
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Brown will receive a prize package including an item of clothing from River’s West, a South Carolina Sportsman T-shirt and window decal, a copy of Cooking on the Wild Side by Ty Conti, the magazine’s publisher, as well as a Tink’s Scent Kit, Realtree caps and Monster Buck DVDs and a Plano storage box.
Brown remains eligible, as are all entrants, for the grand-prize package, which includes a complete set of River’s West hunting clothes, a Leopold scope, a compound bow package from Angler’s Sporting Goods in Monks Corner and Irby Street Sporting Goods in Florence, plus a 2-day hunting trip to The Territories, a Saluda River preserve near Ninety Six. The grand-prize winner will be drawn before the Palmetto Sportsman’s Classic next March.
The lot he got permission to hunt was about 20 yards wide but extremely deep, bordering another piece of property. He went to look at it the first day he got permission, Oct. 4, and he found rubbed trees, a tree on which he mounted a trail camera, and a maple tree suitable for his Gorilla climbing stand.
Work and weather didn’t allow him to return to the stand until Oct. 6. He got into his stand around 5:30, and at 7:15, he saw a big buck approaching him. The deer stopped about five yards from the base of his tree, facing him. Figuring the deer was about to bolt, he drew back on his PSE Fire Storm White bow.
“I was shooting straight down, trying for a spine shot,” said Brown, who was shooting Beman Bone Collector arrows tipped with Montec 125-grain broadheads. “I missed the spine by about two inches, but it got both lungs on the way through.”
The buck ran about 30 or 40 yards, and Brown heard him crash to the ground. Even though he assumed the buck was dead, he climbed down, pulled his trail camera and headed home, called his father and calmed down. When he returned three hours later, the buck was dead, right where he expected to find him.
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