St. Landry Parish hunter downs 204-inch typical buck on hot, humid afternoon
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.
Canadian hunter Jeanette Hall took this handsome 150-inch-plus buck back in September, but the real surprise came when the animal was aged at 9.5 years. Although relatively long-lived animals, whitetail bucks rarely live beyond the age of 10 in the wild, with does averaging about the same. With lower hunting pressure and the absence of disease, a healthy deer usually dies of old age around seven or eight years old.
Here are some results from the Irish Creek Outfitters trip to Hutchinson, Kansas with Carl Beier, Joey Lowery and their dogs Danny and Jenny. Pheasants, speckle belly geese, lesser and greater Canada geese, mallards and bobwhite quail were all part of the bag.