October 23, 2006
Seven is enough
Remember the weather on Oct. 18? It was almost too warm to hunt.
Steve Jenkins didn't really want to go hunting. But he did. He hadn't been in his Botetourt County stand too long when an 8-pointer approached and started feeding on acorns. It wasn't quite a shooter in Jenkins' eyes so he waited. And this thing showed up. Jenkins, who lives in Buchanan and just started crossbow hunting this year, dropped it with a prefect shot.
It's a seven-pointer, but this is one of those cases where the number of points doesn't really matter. It's tall, wide and has scary mass all the way up. Jenkins summed it up well when he said, "This thing is a freak."
A good kind of freak.
Jenkins said he was taking the cape to taxidermist Ted Justice, whose studio is just up the road from my office. I hope to swing by this week so I can get my hands on this rack, and find out how old the deer was.
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