Baldwin’s Tyler Nelson had been watching a Marshall County buck develop a massive set of antlers all summer long by using trail cameras set up on property owned by his girlfriend’s family.
“I’ve probably got 1,000 pictures of him over the summer,” Nelson said.
And the deer wasn’t a secret to his girlfriend’s family because it routinely visited a cut bean field every evening.
But Nelson took advantage of the fact that his girlfriend’s family didn’t have any big bow hunters, and now that monster buck — which has been greenscored at nearly 164 inches Pope & Young — to arrow the deer on Oct. 9. […]