Nebraska: Legendary Del Austin Buck
We’re editing a TV show on hunting in Nebraska, and I ran across this amazing buck and story in my research: As the story goes, a bowhunter by name of Al Dawson was out in the woods near the Platte River one day in 1958 when he spotted the biggest buck he’d ever seen. Al recalled to a magazine: "…heavy, scraggly points, long and short, growing from the main beams in all directions… two long prongs curving out and down on either side of his head, between eye and ear…extended below his jaws, giving him an odd, lop-eared appearance." Al hunted the giant hard for the next 4 years. He saw him a few more times, and other hunters in the area did too. [...]