06/07/2025
Congratulations to Stacey Stephens on 2 great local mountain bucks. They were both taken minutes apart. Stacey and his son Jeremy had passed on this 12-point for a couple of years. After getting it on camera this past season decided to hunt for it. The Big 10 had been on one of their cameras roughly 3 mi away. Although Stacey thought he had saw it last year and couldn't get a shot in the area of the 12 point. He was hunting for the 12 and saw a good buck and shot it thinking it was it. He thought it had went down but minutes later a buck appeared, which he later realized was looking at the one he had just shot. But he thought maybe he had missed so he shot again the deer ran down the ridge. He called Jeremy to come to where he had shot the buck. Jeremy found the first one and said here it is and Stacey was still thinking it was just one deer. But Jeremy said here's a blood trail going down the ridge and they followed it and there was the 12 point. The first buck he shot turned out to be the 10-point and then they realized it was the one from their camera 3 mi away. Great story and memory on two great bucks. The 10-point grossed over 130 and should qualify for the top 10 in the county. Just doesn't get any better than this. Both forms are McKenzie 64U semi sneak , ears back on one and ears forward on the other.
