Late on the morning of Nov. 29, 2003, Doug Atkins of Stokesdale, North Carolina, returned to his home area after a fruitless hunt in Virginia. Upon his return, Doug decided to try his local hunting spot for the afternoon. At around 4 p.m., Doug saw a big-bodied buck that had previously been seen only on nighttime trail camera shots. After Doug squeezed the trigger of his Browning .300 Win. Mag., the trophy fell right in his tracks. Doug knew that his dad, Grady Atkins, was hunting in a nearby field. Doug found his dad and told him "Dad, I just killed the biggest deer I've ever killed." Upon seeing the deer, hunting buddies Keith Boggs and Eddie Simpson, thought the wide Guilford County 9-pointer had been killed in Virginia. The 4 1/2-yar-old buck had an inside spread of 21 1/8 inches, and his net typical score was 141 7/8.
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