Rack Em Up – Reports: When Virginia hunter Scotty Dolan tagged this bizarre bruiser on Nov. 16, he wasn’t quite sure what he had killed. Closer inspection of the downed deer revealed a velvet rack with three bulbous droptines and 20 scoreable points. At first Dolan’s hunting buddies thought his field photos were a joke pulled from the internet. But when they finally met up with him, they couldn’t believe what they saw.
That morning Dolan, 51, joined his hunting club buddies and their dogs to hunt a 400-acre property in Goochland County, Va. When the group stopped for a long lunch, Dolan grew restless and decided to switch to solo still hunting. He set off in the opposite direction his friends were headed and chose a ladder stand near a well-traveled hunter’s road. But the woods were calm and Dolan didn’t feel right about his setup, and he relocated just an hour later.
This time he chose a stand near a bedding area. He was sitting in a cutover with dense cover in front of him and a grove of mature oaks behind him. Another hour passed and Dolan began to daydream of giant bucks and hunting magazine fame. “I was just thinking crazy stuff,” Dolan said. But 10 minutes later something far crazier than he had imagined walked out of the woods. Continue reading…….
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