trophy deer

Jerry Holloman neared the top of his elevated stand Dec. 1 and took one last step up when something went terribly wrong and his foot slipped and the unthinkable happened. […]

With the wind howling and his 6-year old daughter wanting to go hunting the next day, all Stevie Dewease wanted to do was sit in a ladder stand and watch how the deer might react to a ground blind he’d put on the edge of the field a few days earlier.

Little did he know both of those efforts would result in a buck he’ll remember the rest of his life. […]

Jerry Tassin was sitting in an oak bottom on the 40-acre family piece of Lamar County property when his phone rang Christmas afternoon.

“My dad said, ‘There is a big deer right here, and he won’t come out. So see if you can get him,’” Tassin said.

So the hunter eased out of his stand and stalked through the rain-soaked woods as the day’s light quickly faded. Soon, Tassin was near the pipeline his father Joseph was watching.

And there, at the edge of the woods, stood a big buck that later taped out at 150 inches. […]