I was lucky to harvest this deer in mid-October last year. I purchased
our property five years ago, it had been subject to heavy hunting pressure and almost no upkeep. Since that first year, I have been using Whitetail Institute products in our food plots spread throughout the property.
In just that short period, we have seen a large increase in deer numbers and antler quality — to the point that our neighbors have been wondering where all of the deer have gone.
Two years ago, we had this deer on trail camera before the season, but
once the season came around, and we finally laid eyes on him, he had broken of an entire beam. Since there were other nice bucks around we decided to see if he would make it to the next season. We saw him numerous times throughout the season hitting the Imperial Whitetail Clover and Winter-Greens food plots. Last August, we got the first trail camera pictures of him, and he had exploded in size but kept the same basic point configuration, so we knew it was the same deer. The deer net scored 158 inches, qualifying for P&Y and the Pennsylvania record books. We attribute the deer surviving through the entire Pennsylvania hunting season to the quality food from our Whitetail Institute food plots keeping his home range to our small area.
