Big, Record Book Buck Shot Illegally in Louisiana

Big Buck Shot in Louisiana

Big Louisiana Buck Down, No License

Get this: A deer hunter shot a monster, 200+ inch buck without a deer hunting license. Now, we’ve all made mistakes while out hunting, but this bowhunter in Louisiana simply takes the cake — a big, fat, huge cake with tree trunks coming out of its skull! This indiscretion more than likely falls under “bad decision” rather than a mere mistake.

This white-tailed deer-hunt-gone-wrong turned out not to be straight-up deer poaching, but the fact that the successful hunter called up a state wildlife agent to score the big buck, well, that was just another dumb move on his part. Of course, that’s kind of the way it works with criminals that eventually get caught, they just don’t know when to stop.

Record Whitetail Buck Illegally Shot in Louisiana

LA Wildlife at Work

Source: Officials say Senior Agent Douglas Anderson received a call at 10 a.m. Saturday about a trophy buck that had been shot on a private lease in Avoyelles Parish near Simmesport by a guest hunter. The club wanted someone to come measure the giant buck for record keeping purposes. Upon arrival, Anderson was informed that the big deer may have been shot by an unlicensed hunter.

He says he interviewed the hunter, Glen Toups Jr., 40, and Toups confessed to not having a basic hunting license, big-game license or deer tags. The agent cited Toups for the violations, and seized the record-worthy deer, which was unofficially scored as a 208-inch buck.

Taken by a licensed deer hunter, it would have qualified as one of the largest bow kills ever in Louisiana.

The state’s largest non-typical archery buck was a 219 1/8-inch deer taken by Billy Husted in Tensas Parish in 2007. The No. 2 deer was Rodney Lee’s 203 5/8-incher taken in East Feliciana parish in 1983.

Report Poaching in Louisiana

Mature Buck Fooled, Not Game Warden

A mature white-tailed buck is a smart animal. Apparently, the Louisiana hunter was able to fool the old buck, but couldn’t get one past the LA wildlife department. It takes good deer habitat and a deer with a freakish genes to put 200 inches of bone on a free-ranging buck. It happens every year, but not on very many bucks. That’s a truly impressive animal.

Unfortunately, since the buck was shot illegally, he will not get his proper due in the Louisiana state rankings. The poacher not only took the buck, but also stole the opportunity for one of his fellow hunters to legally harvest it. Wonder if he’s still in that hunt club?

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