Hunter: Tyler Jeffries
Points: 12 (5L, 7R)
County: Worth
Season: 2024-2025
Hunt Story
It was a beautiful, cool, clear, and peacefully evening. My girlfriend and I picked one of our favorite stands just to take in the view of the good Lord's South Georgia woods. With a south southwest wind gently pushing across our chest from our right shoulder, we noticed some decent young deer pushing around a doe, sparring, freshening up scrapes and rubs, just doing what deer do, and we were satisfied with that for the evening! Next thing we know, I look over my right shoulder and lean forward just as stiff and slow as I can. With the intent to survey the areas I knew deer would come from, and it hit me like a neon traffic cone. NOTHING BUT HORNS! I whisper to my girlfriend, “Honey don’t move, there’s a stud over here.” As he goes behind the pines adjacent to me I lean back and see a doe that he has hemmed up. Just trying to control my heart rate and remember to breathe, I see the doe enter the food plot to the southwest of us and skate down the edge of it. She then breaks north, takes five steps and stops looking at me. In the back of my mind I’m praying to the Lord to let this buck do what I think he’s going to do. Next thing I know I see bone emerging from behind the twin pine trees, he’s coming in. I get settled on my rifle, I find him in the scope, he almost seemed to keep growing every time I would look at his head. As he turned north to tail the doe, as soon as his front legs hit the briars at the edge of the food plot, he stops broadside and looks at me from 55 yards. I put my retical on the money and take one last controlled yet deep breath and slowly begin to squeeze the trigger, BOOM! My 30-06 rings off echoing in the distance and I see him in the ground like a sack of taters and I knew then the good Lord blessed me with an opportunity I didn’t know I deserved. I can’t thank my girlfriend, her family, my family and friends, and the good Lord enough!
