Satchel Newton poses with his unbelievable 211 2/8-inch archery buck — just the second whitetail he’s ever taken, and first with a bow!
December 13, 2025
By Clifford Neames
Satchel Newton did not grow up deer hunting. He started at the age of 20 with his grandfather as a mentor and killed his first buck with a rifle — a 120-inch 8-point — six years later in 2024. This year, on October 3rd, 2025, he took his second ever buck, and first with a bow. At 211 2/8 inches, it's going to be a tough one to beat to say the least!
“I’m still in shock over this,” he said. “It still seems surreal!”
Just before the season opened, Satchel landed a new job and was scheduled to begin October 6th. The weather forecast was calling for hot days, but he figured he better hunt as much as he could before the new job started. He began in one area of the 200-acre property the first two days, but those hunts yielded no deer sightings.
On day three of his hunt, the wind changed and he had to move. After studying the topo map, he picked another location and headed in to set up his saddle for the evening hunt.
The other challenge for Satchel was that he didn't have a lot of intel to plan strategy around. The landowner is quite traditional, and doesn’t allow trail cameras or tree stands to be placed on the land.
“I was going in blind,” he explained. “I did enough right to get into a good spot, then the luck factor hit hard. I literally walked in at 4:30, picked a tree where I could see well, and began climbing. It was all good until I got a few feet up and dropped my next step.”
A blind October 3rd saddle setup led Newton straight to this massive 5x4 giant with matching extras. Satchel climbed down for the retrieval, regrouped, then ascended once again.
“I got tied off, and that is when my whole world exploded,” he recalled.
A little movement caught his eye, and there just 80 yards away stood a giant whitetail.
“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” he added. “I had never seen, or even imagined a buck that size, yet there it was — and he hadn’t seen me!”
The buck dropped his head to get a drink of water, and Satchel got an even better look at the rack.
“I thought no one would believe me and the buck might simply walk out of my life, so I decided to video it," he smiled. “I also called my wife and told her If I shoot this deer I might pass out!”
Then, the buck bedded down as Satchel hung there trying to figure out his next move.
Newton still couldn’t believe his eyes as he walked up on the buck he’d watched bed down, rise and finally offer a shot. “I called a friend over in Ohio that kills big bucks and told him I was considering sneaking over to try getting in range," he said.
That friend talked him out of that plan, telling him to remain patient because the big buck would probably get up and feed again soon. Two hours passed before the buck stood up, but incredibly it began walking straight toward the anxious hunter.
“He stopped in a small opening where a doe had been eating acorns earlier, and I took the shot,” Satchel explained. “The arrow hit back, slicing through the femoral artery, and he went down fast!”
After taking a moment to settle down, an almost impossible task considering the situation, Satchel called his wife and friend to tell them it was done.
“I think the real impact of it all didn’t sink in till I walked over to the buck," he said.
The massive rack sports huge bases with multiple extra points and long beams carrying a 5x4 frame. There are two long additional matching points inside the normal ones, and each beam is bladed near the end. This one easily pushes well past the magical 200-inch mark!
