Deer manager says letting the young guys walk to 7 1/2 is the key component to producing big bucks
Just when Forrest Hodges thought his deer season couldn’t get any better, it did.
On September 28 — opening day of the current statewide Managed Lands Deer and Archery Only whitetail seasons — the 37-year-old logging contractor from Jacksonville brought down a free-ranging whitetail buck with a magnificent set of antlers. Sporting 20 scorable points with thick main beams, the buck ran up a Boone and Crockett score of 187 4/8 inches. It weighed 220 pounds.
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