Richard Gadd – Mississippi

On the cold morning of January 5, this past season I decided to go deer hunting in north Mississippi over a field of Whitetail clover.  About 7:05 a doe came out to eat, then proceeded to go into a thicket. After two hours of nothing, I heard a noise in the field beside me, turned to look and the doe came back with this big buck with her.  The deer was on my right side, while I was facing left which created a problem.  The deer was only 60 yards away and any sudden moves by me would have alerted the buck to my presence.  After what seemed like an eternity the buck turned away to scratch his head.  At that time I took advantage of it and raised my 270 rifle to take the shot of a life time.  This deer scored 170 5/8 gross and 161 7/8 net.