Ep. 936: Something From The White House That We Can All Applaud

All right, earlier this month, Boone and Crockett announced that there is a new USA record for typical whitetail deer, and it's a buck that was killed 35 years ago.

Hmm.

Uh, here's how that came to be.

Sam Aiuppa of Northern Illinois was out pheasant hunting on November 28th, 1991.

Sam's passion, uh, was bird hunting-

Oh

... and he considers himself just a casual deer hunter.

He said he'd always buy deer tags, uh, but he, like, never put much time or effort into actually deer hunting.

However, it was actually pheasant hunting that helped him kill what would end up being the new USA record.

Here is Sam telling the story of that hunt via Boone and Crockett.

Bill.

Okay, I was hunting birds.

Around 3:30, put the dogs up.

I had a stand there because I saw a lot of scrapings and a lot of deer tracks.

I says, "I'm gonna go in the deer stand." This was around 3:30 in the afternoon.

Just before sundown, this deer come walking down the trail.

He stopped, he looked around, walked a little bit, and he stopped again, looked around.

I lift up my slug shotgun.

I took one shot.

He jumped up in the air, came down, went over the hill.

Stood in my stand for another 15, 20 minutes.

He came down, saw the blood, went over the hill, and there he was laying dead on the other side of the hill.

Called my buddy, and we helped process the deer at that time.

Now that's a deer hunting story, just no nonsense.

Yeah, man, just he cuts all the bullshit out.