This is another example of one of those memorable moments that needs to be captured so as not to forget. After all those years of not shooting the bow and then to pick it up again and bring home a new state record. That is just so awesome. This story from North American Whitetail is a must read.

By: Rick Kratzke

Last season, this avid Louisiana hunter decided to do some bowhunting for the first time in more than 30 years, and his second trip to the woods produced the state’s largest bow buck in history!

Billy Husted had given up bowhunting years earlier because of the heat and the never-ending mosquitoes, but last year he bought a new bow and headed out to the woods. He came home with this incredible 18-point megabuck, scoring 219 1/8, a new Louisiana state record.

Some of the South’s most impressive whitetails thrive in the Mississippi Delta region of Louisiana. Each year during hunting season, reports trickle in about huge trophy bucks taken in this deer-rich part of the state. Bucks with weights approaching 300 pounds and does in the 200-pound range are not uncommon. Deer in this fertile region attain heavy body weights and grow impressive headgear for one main reason: incredible nutrition.

The weather was warm with temperatures in the 80s on the afternoon of Oct. 2, 2007, when 55-year-old Billy Husted, owner of a sporting goods store in Monroe, Louisiana, decided to go bowhunting. Billy was hunting in Tensas Parish between the towns of Tallulah and Newellton.

“I’ve hunted deer most of my life with a rifle,” Billy said. “I was perfectly content to continue hunting with a rifle until my son-in-law began working on me to give bowhunting another chance. I hadn’t bowhunted for more than 30 years, mostly because of the heat and the mosquitoes that drive you absolutely crazy in the early season.”

However, Billy finally relented. In August 2007 he purchased a Hoyt bow and began practicing. By the afternoon of Oct. 2, he had only been out in the woods with his bow one time previously. Now, on that warm October afternoon on what would be his second bowhunt of the season and only his second bowhunt in some 30 years, he was about to accomplish a feat that would change whitetail history in Louisiana.

By: Glynn Harris

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