Landon Smith killed this deer 12-13-07 just north of Vicksburg. The deer seemed to have broke his left main beam in velvet, just above his brow tine.

Landon says, "This is a special deer because it is the first decent buck that Shane Easterling (Dogwood Outdoors Ministry Partner) and myself have gotten on video since the Dogwood Outdoor Ministry was started in 2005. Everything seemed to happen on this day like we always hoped it would. We got to our hunting property around 1:00pm and went and checked the trail cameras that Shane Easterling and Jonathan Breakfield had put out the week before on a few scrapes. We had about 20 pictures of this deer and it was the first time we had gotten a picture of this deer. So we went on and got in the stand around 2:45pm and the rest is crazy. The stand we were in you could see 4 different ways so Shane and I flipped a coin for which two lanes each of us were going to watch and hunt. If the deer came out in my lanes I would shoot and he would video and vice versa if they came out in his lanes. I jokingly told him I had got the two sorry lanes. At 3:00, about a 14 or 15in 8pt came out in one of my lanes at about 400yds. We were watching him and this deer walked out at 200yds between us and the other deer at 3:21pm. After I calmed down I was able to squeeze the trigger and dropped the deer with Shane’s 444 Handi rifle. The deer was a 12pt with a 17.25in spread. I really hate it, but we could not find a set of scales anywhere so we can only estimate what he weighed. We estimated him at about 240lbs. It was the biggest bodied deer I have ever killed.' Well Shane, I guess I didn't get the sorry lanes! Thanks Buddy!' "