On Sept. 14, Robbie Standing tried to get his spouse, Susie Standing, to go together with him for a workday at their deer camp close to Utica, Mississippi. However Susie had different plans.
“I informed him no, I used to be gonna hunt for ‘Large Boy,’ the buck I’d been watching since early July,” Susie tells Outside Life.
The Statuses reside within the small neighborhood of Bovia in Warren County. They’ve a house on two acres within the nation, and Susie says there’s loads of undeveloped land across the property.
“There’s a lowland space behind our home and for 20 years I’ve seen deer repeatedly again there close to oaks and brush,” she explains. “However final July I noticed a extremely massive buck that was far greater than the opposite 8-pointers he was hanging round.”
Photograph courtesy Susie Standing
Susie watched the buck usually because it handed via their property and determined to purchase an early-season velvet deer tag. The particular three-day season started in 2022 and ran from Sept. 13 to Sept. 15 this yr.
“I waited for ‘Large Boy’ all afternoon on opening day,” Susie says. “However he by no means confirmed. I used to be decided to hunt once more the following day, however Robbie needed me to go together with him to our Utica hunt camp. I stated, ‘Nope, you go proper forward, I’m looking proper right here at dwelling.’”
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Susie waited for the massive velvet buck for many of the day.
“I simply knew he was gonna present, and positive sufficient, at 6:20 p.m. he appeared,” Susie says. By that point, Robbie had returned from deer camp. He was asleep on a recliner close by. “I informed Robbie he higher get up and watch this.”
Her plan was to lean in opposition to the door body to regular her crossbow. However when she took intention, a rocking chair on the porch was blocking her shot.
“I needed to step off the porch and onto a sidewalk and make a freehand shot,” she explains. “The buck was consuming some grass. He stopped, raised his head and checked out me. That’s once I took the shot. He was standing simply 25 yards away, and the arrow when proper via him.”
Robbie was searching the window when she shot. They each knew the buck was hit properly however determined to attend in a single day.
Photograph courtesy Susie Standing
“Proper after daylight we went after him and located him piled up behind our shed,” Susie stated.
Susie says the buck weighed simply over 300 kilos. It has 15 factors, with 4 drop tines, together with one which’s 5 inches lengthy. The buck was tough scored at 213 inches, and Susie thinks the non-typical rack might rating even larger. She says a state biologist and official scorer will come try the rack after the 60-day drying interval is up.
“Our taxidermist says the velvet is absolutely intact, no shredding off. So it’ll look nice as a mount,” Susie says. “I would like my Large Boy mount searching to the place he was shot. That manner he can see his offspring strolling round within the coming years.”
