From Louisiana Sportsman:
Crowville’s Garry Ward has hunted the Tensas National Wildlife Refuge property since he was 6 years old — and at 58 he scored what has been green scored as the largest buck ever taken with a crossbow in Louisiana.
“It took me 52 years to do this deal,” Ward laughed.
One of the green-scorers put the rack 213 7/8 inches, while another got 192 5/8 inches. No matter the final net, this massive, palmated giant will be the new Louisiana crossbow record.
Louisiana is one of the relatively few states where I have not hunted whitetails, but I sure want to and intend to someday.
Louisiana has been putting down some great bucks. You can go to the Louisiana Sportsman magazine website and then go to the hunting photo contest to see some of the bucks taken this year. Same goes for the Mississippi Sportsman magazine and it’s hunting photo contest. Both publications are run by the same company and I grew up following both closely being from Mississippi. The south is getting better and better each year as people practice QDMA down there it’s really starting to take hold.
I can’t wait, I’m 58 nest year!
Nice job Gary way to stick with it.