Todd Lowe of Mocksville likes the ninth month — a lot. Three years ago, on Sept. 27, 2011, he arrowed the No. 3 non-typical whitetail buck ever taken by an Ohio archer, a 26-pointer that tallied 224 4/8 inches. Last Friday, he hit the jackpot again, taking a huge non-typical from Davie County that may wind up being No. 2 in North Carolina in that category.
Lowe, a former resident of Antrim, Ohio, who operates a thriving taxidermy business – Outdoorsmen’s Choice – took a huge 18-point buck that scores grosses 185 inches and nets, when green-scored, 176 1/8 points.
Only Brent Mabrey’s state-record Halifax County buck, which scored 176 7/8 when killed in 2005, will wind up bigger than Lowe’s among bucks taken with a bow and arrow. Lowe’s buck can’t be officially scored until the end of a 60-day drying period.
“I shot a crossbow last year,” said Lowe, 53, who is exclusively a stick-and-string hunter, “but I went back to my compound this year.”
Lowe was shooting a PSE Bow Madness X-Force compound set at 60 pounds draw weight. And Lowe can shoot it — really, really shoot it.
“My grandfather gave me my first bow, a Bear recurve, when I was 10,” he said, “and some “floo-floo” arrows. He made me learn to shoot walnuts hanging on a walnut tree. Yeah, I could do it.”
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