Though 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 Out of doors Information that he had agreed to hunt a non-public searching membership on Nov. 7 with a couple of pals.
“I wasn’t even going to go,” Richey informed GON. “However my brother-in-law Scott Glen requested me, so I went. If my life relied on getting again to the place we had been at, I’d lose it. I’ve no clue the place we had been aside from Greene County.”
William Pettie, one in every of Richey’s buddies, dropped him off at a ladder stand and wished him luck. Though Richey knew there was an enormous buck roaming the property, he didn’t know any particulars about it—together with how massive it was. However when the buck stepped out at 50 yards in the course of the third week of the Georgia gun season, Richey knew he was a shooter.
“I put my gun on him and thought he certain did appear to be a great deer. I assumed it have to be the one they had been speaking 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 great buck—he hadn’t deliberate on killing a doe or a younger buck. Once they began teasing Richey over textual content about exhibiting up and taking pictures their buck, he responded in variety.
“I informed them he ran off,” Lindell informed GON. “They came visiting there, however 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 biggest Greene County buck on document scored 164 5/8, in response to the GON database, which might nearly actually 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 response to Boone and Crockett data. That deer was taken in 1998 by Brian Ross. There aren’t any B&C recordbook entries for typical or nontypical whitetails killed in Greene County, Georgia, which lies east of Atlanta alongside Interstate 20.
