Jewett hunter bags big one in Madison Co.
It has been a topsy-turvy deer season in East Texas. Cold and raining one day. Hot and muggy the next. The season has been a total bust for some, unforgettable for others.
Larry Renfrow of Jewett will likely remember the 2007-08 season as one of the best ever. Renfrow, 61, killed a personal best whitetail on Nov. 10 that currently ranks as the top scoring buck reported to the Texas Big Game Awards Program for Region 5.
The Boone & Crockett gross score on the 13-point non-typical rack is 171 1/8 points. It carried a pair of drop tines, more than 30 inches of mass and nearly 21 inches of non-typical growth, according to TBGA scorer Billy Lambert of Wellborn.
Renfrow said he shot the deer while manning a stand on his 1,500-acre lease in Madison County. He said the buck stepped into a right-of-way at about 9 a.m. The buck was on the heels of doe.
"Most of the deer had already come in, fed and left, but I decided to stay and wait it out," Renfrow said. "I usually stay in the stand until pretty late in the morning. I'm glad I did."
Lambert scored another outstanding buck earlier this year for Charlie Hoelscher of Houston. Hoelscher's buck was killed on opening weekend behind low fence in Robertson County.
Hoelscher's 13-pointer has outstanding tine length, including G2s and G3s longer than 10 inches. Lambert said the rack gross scores 165 points.
Lufkin 11-year-old Matt Smithhart ventured outside of East Texas to hunt for his big buck. He found it in San Saba in the central part of the state.
Smithhart's buck, a 12-pointer with a 12-inch inside spread, was aged at 7 1/2 years old. It gross scores 149 5/8, 148 1/2 net, according to TBGA scorer Ben Bartlett of Lufkin.
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