North Alabama sure has some Big Deer
That this is a beautiful whitetail. I have to be honest when I say I always thought they were smaller down south but this guy sure proved me wrong. I really do enjoy stories like these.
By: Rick Kratzke
Jackson County, in the northeastern corner of the Cotton State, has a long history of producing top-end whitetails. Glance at one of the old Alabama Whitetail Record books and you’ll see that this county has consistently ranked near the top in the number of record-class bucks produced.
In recent years, talk occasionally has it that Jackson County isn’t what it once was — that the salad days for big-time bucks are long past for this particular county. To those critics, Steve Woods might say, “Wait just a minute.”
Woods, a lifelong resident of Jackson County, has taken plenty of garden-variety 6- and 8-pointers over the span of his 30-odd years spent chasing whitetails in his home county. But the truly big buck always eluded him — until last December: Hunting just 300 yards behind his house on that fateful Saturday morning on the eighth day of the month, the 45-year-old deerslayer downed a 13-point whitetail that sported a rack grossing just over 160 Boone and Crockett Club points.
What makes the buck particularly interesting — its enormous size aside — is its whereabouts when Woods found it: not at Stevenson, or Paint Rock, or Skyline, or any of those other locales so much celebrated for big bucks over the years, but in Pisgah, a sleeper area for trophy deer. Even Woods admits that it’s not one of the places he usually hunts.
Story by: Alabama Game & Fish
For a Southern buck that thing is a monster. Thanks for sharing.
August 9th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Arthur, that must be one of the smarter one’s to get that big.
August 10th, 2008 at 3:53 pm