It would be hard to hit an antler tine on purpose at 266 yards, but Tim Elsenheimer found that easy to do by accident. At 6:15 a.m. on Nov. 17, 2003, as he was watching a field in Maine, a "hot" doe emerged at long range and began to feed. She kept looking back into the timber, and finally Tim was able to coax this big buck out with some grunts. Although the first shot was fatal, the buck kept walking, so Tim fired twice more. The second round hit the 6 1/2-year-old buck in the neck; the third blew off a back tine. After two hours of searching, Tim found the lost tine 40 feet from where the deer fell! With the tine in place, the rack scored 130 inches.
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