A second pending state-record buck killed in Louisiana

Alex LeBlanc of Opelousas, La., killed what could be the Louisiana state-record typical buck — the second potential record killed this season in the Bayou State.

Hunter ignores warm weather and downs 204-inch monster buck

Everyone knows the only way to kill a deer is to be in the woods, but when 20-year-old Alex LeBlanc announced he was going to sit a stand yesterday afternoon, his buddies scoffed. After all, it was too windy, warm and humid.

“Everybody told me I was crazy going out there,” LeBlanc said.

But the Opelousas hunter shrugged off the naysaying and clambered into a box stand overlooking a planted shooting lane about 2:45 p.m.

By 4 p.m. a buck was on the ground — and it was a monster packing around a typical rack that has been rough scored at a tad more than 204 inches.

If that score holds, it would top the current 184 6/8-inch typical state-record typical buck killed in 1943.

Click here to read the full story of this incredible deer on our sister site, LouisianaSportsman.com.

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Andy Crawford has spent nearly his entire career writing about and photographing Louisiana’s hunting and fishing community. While he has written for national publications, even spending four years as a senior writer for B.A.S.S., Crawford never strayed far from the pages of Louisiana Sportsman. Learn more about his work at www.AndyCrawford.Photography.

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