Nice buck. Way to get it done "old school". It always amazed me how wide Texas deer look because of their smaller bodies. I thought Jackie Bushman and Bill Jordan killed 24" bucks on every shot.
This was a wide deer for sure. He wasn’t one of the usual suspects I’d been seeing on game cames around the place. He came off neighboring ranch and was after some does. I busted him on a good trot!
When we were kids here on the place deer like this were just not seen. Lots of sheep & goats overgraized area, and whole area overhunted real bad. There wss one ranch up the creek and 1000’s of acres. Owned by old Normandy 101st airborne vet (old family ranch). Now he had some bucks on that place.
Edit, on different note. Every Christmas Bill Jordan was in the old LDS (early 80’s) where I was employed. He and shop owner went way back.
