Although he owns 22 canines and prefers to hunt deer behind them, Lindell Richey of Claxon, Georgia, shot the largest buck of his life whereas sitting in a buddy’s treestand earlier this month.
Richey, who’s in his late fifties, informed Georgia Outdoor News that he had agreed to hunt a non-public searching membership on Nov. 7 with a number of associates.
“I wasn’t even going to go,” Richey informed GON. “But my brother-in-law Scott Glen asked me, so I went. If my life depended on getting back to where we were at, I’d lose it. I have no clue where we were other than Greene County.”
William Pettie, considered one of Richey’s buddies, dropped him off at a ladder stand and wished him luck. Although Richey knew there was an enormous buck roaming the property, he didn’t know any particulars about it—together with how massive it was. But when the buck stepped out at 50 yards throughout the third week of the Georgia gun season, Richey knew he was a shooter.
“I put my gun on him and thought he sure did look like a good deer. I thought it must be the one they were talking about.”
The buck walked towards Richey, then turned broadside at 40 yards. Glen and Pettie heard the shot, and knew he should’ve killed a very good buck—he hadn’t deliberate on killing a doe or a younger buck. When they began teasing Richey over textual content about exhibiting up and taking pictures their buck, he responded in sort.
“I told them he ran off,” Lindell informed GON. “They came over there, but he didn’t go 25 to 30 yards.”
A pair of unofficial measurers taped the buck between 200 and 204 inches, with a complete of 46 inches of irregular tines. The largest Greene County buck on document scored 164 5/8, in accordance with the GON database, which might nearly definitely make Richey’s deer a brand new county document.
Georgia’s state document nontypical buck was a 249 5/8-inch deer from Telfair County, in accordance with Boone and Crockett information. That deer was taken in 1998 by Brian Ross. There are not any B&C recordbook entries for typical or nontypical whitetails killed in Greene County, Georgia, which lies east of Atlanta alongside Interstate 20.