If a hunter wants a chance at a trophy whitetail, he couldn’t do much better than spend time in Stokes County.
The region has produced some of the top racks in North Carolina history, and most of them since the two-buck limit was instituted in the western half of the state in 2000.
The best deer from Stokes is a 173 6/8-inch bruiser killed by young Buddie Adkins that is a Boone-and-Crockett qualifier and the Tarheel State’s No. 4 all-time typical trophy.
Adkins, 16 at the time, used a rattle and grunt call Nov. 30, 2002, to pull the nearly-perfect 10-pointer across a ravine to within 15 yards where he dropped it with one shot from a .270 rifle.
Five days before Adkins shot his trophy, Jim Wall drilled a 10-pointer at the farm next to the property where Adkins was hunting. Wall’s buck rack measured 152 gross inches.
In 2003, Greg Robertson used a bow to nail a 165 1/8-inch 10-point typical that remains the state’s No. 4 all-time bow-kill.
In 2007, Thomas Hooker used a muzzleloader to drop a 162 3/8-inch typical Stokes monster, while Robert Ross’s 1987 gun typical totaled 160 4/8 B&C inches.
Stephen Galyean matched Ross with a 160 4/8 Stokes archery kill in 2008 that claims the No. 7 all-time typical archery spot.
On Nov. 20, 2004, Jeff Sapp bagged a 14-pointer at Stokes with a 7-mm rifle. Sapp’s deer sported a rack that totaled 170 2/8 non-typical points.
Kenneth Nance of Sandy Ridge topped the 2012 Dixie Deer Classic crossbow division with his 143 1/8 Stokes buck.
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