Posted on 01/12/2017 5:01:23 PM PST by BBell
Conditions couldn't have been better Saturday for deer hunting, with frigid air keeping Friday's sleet and snow in a frozen state on the ground in Jefferson County, Miss. A New Orleans woman says all that ice is partly responsible for her killing the biggest deer of her life.
Marni Demelo, 29, told ms-sportsman.com she heard the deer moving through the woods adjacent to a food plot she was hunting, and had time to prepare herself for what she hoped would be a shot at a big buck.
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Demelo knew the buck was one she would be proud of, but didn't realize the animal was quite the trophy it was. She called her husband, Tim, to give him the good news.
"He was hunting close and had heard the shot, and when I called him to tell him I had put one down, he said, 'I know; I heard,'" she said. "Then he drove over, and when he got to my stand, he saw the buck laying there and drove right past me to go to him. I was standing there with my hand out ready to get in, and he just passed me right up and went straight to it. He started laughing and yelled back to me, 'Get over here because you aren't going to believe how big he is.'"
The 4 1/2-year-old buck had main beams of 24 inches and an inside spread of 19 1/2 inches. The longest tines on the 10-point rack measured more than 10 inches. The deer cannot be officially scored until after a 60-day drying period, but Demelo said it green-scored 163 inches.
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