200-inch Mississippi buck arrowed

Calhoun County monster deer likely to be third-ranked non-typical bow buck in Magnolia Records.

Tiffany Ragon

Mississippi's Shane Ragon was just looking to stick a hog when he arrowed this 200-inch buck that likely will be the third-largest bow buck in the state, according to the Magnolia Records.

It was fitting that Shane Ragon fell to his knees when he first put his hands on the massive antlers of the buck he killed Oct. 6 in the middle of a sweet potato field near his home in Calhoun County.

Heck, he was on both knees when he made the shot.

“I am not ashamed to tell you that I got very emotional when I grabbed those antlers and lifted them up and saw what I had done,” the 40-year-old Ragon said. “I cried. I laughed. I cried again. And I laughed again.

“And I prayed, too, thanking the Lord for giving me the opportunity to take such a remarkable animal”

Remarkable? You bet.

“It was greenscored at 203 5/8 inches, gross,” the Calhoun City hunter said. “It is a 7x7 main frame with 12 sticker points that measure 25 inches non-typical. It doesn’t have a lot of mass — it’s less than 16 inches inside spread — but, boy, it makes up for it with those points.”

Even if the score drops 8 inches after the 60-day drying period for an official score, the buck will become the third largest non-typical buck ever killed in Mississippi, according to the Magnolia Records.

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