big buck story............................
12-21-2003 | 11:17 AM
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big buck story............................
here is a story of a womans first time hunting and first deer killed . it come from the columbus dispatch today with a pic.
http://www.dispatch.com/outdoors/out...21-E17-00.html
http://www.dispatch.com/outdoors/out...21-E17-00.html
12-21-2003 | 11:19 AM
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From: madison county ohio
RE: big buck story............................
well her is the article anyway pic. wont paste from page. you can see it if you register. on link above. so i just copied article for you all so you dont have to.
............................Sports > Outdoors
OUTDOORS
All pales next to this buck
Trophy kill causes momentary lapse of memory, not humor
Sunday, December 21, 2003
Dave Golowenski
FOR THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
COURTESY OF ROBERT LITTLE
Heather Martin’s buck has a preliminary score of 202 2/8, which could make it tops in the state for a woman.
When on Dec. 3 Heather Martin killed what appears to be the most antler-endowed buck ever taken in Ohio by a woman, she and husband Josh Martin had no problem finding the deer stopped in place by a single neck shot.
Locating the instrument that had finished off the trophy whitetail was another matter.
"When we got up to the deer, Josh asked me, ‘Where’s the gun?’ I said, ‘I don’t know,’ " recounted Heather Martin, still amused a few days ago by her reaction to what transpired that third afternoon of the gun season.
The explanation, though, is simple and, given the situation, perfectly understandable.
In brief, said Heather Martin with a mixture of mirth and embarrassment, as if she were describing a practical joke played on her, here’s what happened:
"When I shot at the deer," she said, "I threw the gun."
And not at the deer, mind you. Just somewhere. Josh Martin, after briefly admiring the largest buck he’d ever seen dispatched, retraced the couple’s 50 yards of steps to fetch his brand-new .50-caliber CVA Optima Pro with scope.
Which, with little pomp despite the unusual circumstance, he did.
"I still have no idea where he found it," Josh Martin’s wife said.
What the husband and wife encountered at the gun’s receiving end was a not-small detail quite a bit harder to overlook than an apparently disposable muzzleloader. Its antlers preliminarily have been scored 202 2/8 by Buckeye Big Buck Club standards, said Ron E. Perrine Sr., a multicertified scorer from Xenia.
As with Mike Beatty’s buck, the deer tagged by Heather Martin on the family’s 14-acre spread in Butler County between Germantown and Middletown scores as a nontypical, that is, a nonsymmetrical or nonstandard rack. However, unlike Beatty, an avid deer hunter, Martin had never before killed a deer.
She’d never, in fact, until two days before hunted for one.
"I had heard Josh and his dad talk about deer hunting all summer, and I wondered why they were talking so much about it because it wasn’t even deer season," Martin said. "So I wanted to give it a try, to see if it was everything they were talking about."
Whether it turned out to be all that isn’t quite as clear to a particular 28-year-old stay-at-home mother of three youngsters as the impressive outcome might be to most longtime hunters.
Because while Martin said she really remains thrilled about the deer, its death by her hand did bring pause to the empathetic part of her nature.
"It was, like, I can’t believe I did this," she said.
Ambivalence notwithstanding, yes, she might well try it again. The outdoors habit apparently isn’t easily ignored in the Martin household. The twin boys, who came along not yet five years ago, are named Hunter and Logan. If Dad, a 26-year-old crane operator at a Middletown steel plant, had had his way, the names would’ve been Hunter and Fisher.
That idea got nixed upon further review, Heather Martin said.
"I thought they would’ve had to put up with too much kidding," she explained.
Strangely enough, the deer fell on the fifth anniversary of her father’s death. And although her dad was not a hunter, a huntinginclined uncle phoned after word got out to say his late brother surely would have been proud.
Husband Josh seems rather proud as well, she said, even though having already tagged a 14-point buck and a doe earlier he was no longer eligible for that other. The other being the reason her name and not his will claim a higher spot in the Ohio record book and why her deer will supplant his 12-pointer in the family room.
Proud he is, but maybe, too, a tad flummoxed.
"He’s a little jealous," said Mrs. Martin, who apparently can recognize only humor where others might be tempted to see a wee bit of unfairness. "I looked at the one I got and told him, ‘Josh, your deer doesn’t look as big now.’ I got a mean look over that."
Some deer hunters, including a few of her husband’s pals, have since kiddingly told Heather Martin that she might as well make her first deer hunt her last. They told her she might have topped her deer-hunting husband, but it’s unlikely she’ll ever top herself.
"That’s what they tell me," she said with her buoyant laugh, making it nearly impossible not to laugh along with her.
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............................Sports > Outdoors
OUTDOORS
All pales next to this buck
Trophy kill causes momentary lapse of memory, not humor
Sunday, December 21, 2003
Dave Golowenski
FOR THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
COURTESY OF ROBERT LITTLE
Heather Martin’s buck has a preliminary score of 202 2/8, which could make it tops in the state for a woman.
When on Dec. 3 Heather Martin killed what appears to be the most antler-endowed buck ever taken in Ohio by a woman, she and husband Josh Martin had no problem finding the deer stopped in place by a single neck shot.
Locating the instrument that had finished off the trophy whitetail was another matter.
"When we got up to the deer, Josh asked me, ‘Where’s the gun?’ I said, ‘I don’t know,’ " recounted Heather Martin, still amused a few days ago by her reaction to what transpired that third afternoon of the gun season.
The explanation, though, is simple and, given the situation, perfectly understandable.
In brief, said Heather Martin with a mixture of mirth and embarrassment, as if she were describing a practical joke played on her, here’s what happened:
"When I shot at the deer," she said, "I threw the gun."
And not at the deer, mind you. Just somewhere. Josh Martin, after briefly admiring the largest buck he’d ever seen dispatched, retraced the couple’s 50 yards of steps to fetch his brand-new .50-caliber CVA Optima Pro with scope.
Which, with little pomp despite the unusual circumstance, he did.
"I still have no idea where he found it," Josh Martin’s wife said.
What the husband and wife encountered at the gun’s receiving end was a not-small detail quite a bit harder to overlook than an apparently disposable muzzleloader. Its antlers preliminarily have been scored 202 2/8 by Buckeye Big Buck Club standards, said Ron E. Perrine Sr., a multicertified scorer from Xenia.
As with Mike Beatty’s buck, the deer tagged by Heather Martin on the family’s 14-acre spread in Butler County between Germantown and Middletown scores as a nontypical, that is, a nonsymmetrical or nonstandard rack. However, unlike Beatty, an avid deer hunter, Martin had never before killed a deer.
She’d never, in fact, until two days before hunted for one.
"I had heard Josh and his dad talk about deer hunting all summer, and I wondered why they were talking so much about it because it wasn’t even deer season," Martin said. "So I wanted to give it a try, to see if it was everything they were talking about."
Whether it turned out to be all that isn’t quite as clear to a particular 28-year-old stay-at-home mother of three youngsters as the impressive outcome might be to most longtime hunters.
Because while Martin said she really remains thrilled about the deer, its death by her hand did bring pause to the empathetic part of her nature.
"It was, like, I can’t believe I did this," she said.
Ambivalence notwithstanding, yes, she might well try it again. The outdoors habit apparently isn’t easily ignored in the Martin household. The twin boys, who came along not yet five years ago, are named Hunter and Logan. If Dad, a 26-year-old crane operator at a Middletown steel plant, had had his way, the names would’ve been Hunter and Fisher.
That idea got nixed upon further review, Heather Martin said.
"I thought they would’ve had to put up with too much kidding," she explained.
Strangely enough, the deer fell on the fifth anniversary of her father’s death. And although her dad was not a hunter, a huntinginclined uncle phoned after word got out to say his late brother surely would have been proud.
Husband Josh seems rather proud as well, she said, even though having already tagged a 14-point buck and a doe earlier he was no longer eligible for that other. The other being the reason her name and not his will claim a higher spot in the Ohio record book and why her deer will supplant his 12-pointer in the family room.
Proud he is, but maybe, too, a tad flummoxed.
"He’s a little jealous," said Mrs. Martin, who apparently can recognize only humor where others might be tempted to see a wee bit of unfairness. "I looked at the one I got and told him, ‘Josh, your deer doesn’t look as big now.’ I got a mean look over that."
Some deer hunters, including a few of her husband’s pals, have since kiddingly told Heather Martin that she might as well make her first deer hunt her last. They told her she might have topped her deer-hunting husband, but it’s unlikely she’ll ever top herself.
"That’s what they tell me," she said with her buoyant laugh, making it nearly impossible not to laugh along with her.
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