Ohio's Logan Urban scored on the buck of a lifetime this fall — a Buckeye State giant that will undoubtedly rank as one of the best bucks in the state this year when all is said and done.
January 03, 2025
By Clifford Neames
“My Dad and I both like to kill deer from the ground,” Logan Urban began. “I use a crossbow because it takes less movement to get a shot off when I’m on the same level as the deer.”
And Logan put that strategy to good use this fall on October 5th, when he took what could turn out to be the largest buck killed in Ohio this season.
The giant buck was very visible on the neighbor’s trail cameras, and it was being hunted by just about everyone in the area, so Logan had to work fast if he wanted to be the one that tagged it.
He was watching the huge buck in velvet through the summer and had him on a good pattern as the season drew closer. The incredible whitetail was bedding in a thicket where he could see all around, as well as moving several hundred yards to feed. Logan and his father had permission to hunt that ground.
Urban wasn't the only hunter in the area that knew about the buck, so he knew he needed to put in the time in order to have a chance at him. “My Dad and I both saw the deer from opposite sides of a field on opening day, when someone bumped him out of another piece of ground,” Logan recalled. “That hunt didn’t pay off, and I didn’t get back out until the next Friday afternoon. But the wind was wrong then, so I hunted across from where I needed to be.”
And, you guessed it, his target buck came out right where he thought it would!
“He went right to where I had wanted to sit and I watched him feeding there for two hours,” Logan lamented.
This encounter confirmed what he had expected, and Logan was waiting there the next afternoon.
With massive scoring points across the board, Urban's buck reached an impressive 260 inches. ”I watched him come out into the field and slowly feed in my direction for about two hours,” he said. “He ended up 30 yards from me and that’s when I sent the bolt!”
His shot was right on the mark and the huge buck ran only a few yards and fell. Then, he struggled to his feet for a moment before crashing for the final time.
“I usually don’t get too fired up, but when he was getting back up there was a moment,” Logan remembered.
The massive rack has wild brow tines that resemble hands with wicked fingers. The left side measures 125 inches and the right 114. A 21-inch spread separates the beams, bringing the total to an incredible 260 inches!
