Posted on 11/26/2022 4:29:03 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
It’s tough to tell which fact is more surprising: That a red stag deer, not native to North America, was roaming around Randolph County, Alabama. Or that, after countless veteran hunters sought this elusive animal for months, a teenager who never harvested a deer in nearly 50 previous hunts, is the guy who killed it. Or that this specimen — estimated at more than 300 pounds — was so big, part of it dangled from his GMC Z71 pickup truck on the way to the processor, where it was too heavy for one scale and maxed out another. Or that he dropped this bodacious buck from 32 yards away with one shot from a crossbow. “A perfect shot,” said the victorious hunter, Coye Potts, 16, a junior at Handley High School in Roanoke.
Coye’s maternal grandfather, Phillip Taylor, lives about 6 miles from the Georgia border in Rock Mills, Alabama. About a year ago, he periodically saw a deer that “looked like a darn moose” venture out of the woods and into his goat pasture.
One week later, for a few hours before school on two consecutive days, Coye didn’t have a clear shot at all. Taylor encouraged his grandson to be patient. On his third day hunting that week, Nov. 3, Coye took one of his friends, Hudson Vowell, with him. Hudson, a 17-year-old homeschooler, used a rangefinder to spot for Coye.
Coye’s arrow was on target. It pierced the double lung and heart. The deer jumped. “He might have went 5 yards,” Coye said, “but he dropped right there.”
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Yankee STAY home!
I used to have some free-range Silver Pheasant, so if people saw a weird bird in their yard, they assumed I was behind it. One day a neighbor knocked on the door and said “ The police are chasing your emu.” Uh, no. It was from a farm about a mile and a half through the woods away. She always had stuff escaping.
Red Stags are native to Germany. Interesting. My money is that someone imported a few as exotics on the black market, possibly for a “zoo” and thought nothing of releasing them when their plans didn’t pan out.
More meat for him! Yum.
Who spears gar?
It’s a gar.
I hadn’t noticed that!)
One reason Georgia deer run thin is that there are just too many of them. That’s why the limit is 14 per season and 2 per day. We have around 5 deer living on our rural property in Habersham county and they all look pretty good this year. We had a good acorn season. I’m originally from North Florida and Florida deer are really small.
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