Louisiana Rifle Hunter Shoots Back-to-Back Delta Bucks From the Same Blind

Lane Cox with a stud 13-point buck. Lane Cox photo

The fertile, rich delta region of Louisiana is well known to produce some heavy-racked whitetails, and Lane Cox, 27, knew the box blind he was getting into the afternoon of Nov. 22, had a history of producing some big bucks.

Just two years prior, he’d shot a giant whitetail from the same box blind, located on a private hunt club near the Mississippi River north of Natchez. The spot overlooked a large field next to a bedding area with tall grass. It was a prime place for Cox to take a buck that he and others in the club had seen the previous season.

“We had a bunch of trail cam photos of a great buck we’d seen during the 2020 season, but we couldn’t get a handle on exactly where he was this year,” says Cox, an agricultural irrigation salesman. “Last year, the buck broke off a point while in velvet, so we passed taking him, hoping that in 2021 he’d be better with all his points.”

Cox believed the buck was bedding during the day in a large patch of 8-to-10 feet tall grass, and would move around in late afternoons coming to a field to feed and look for ripe does. The place he focused on that afternoon was a well-used trail coming through the grass and into the field. It was the same area where Cox had shot a heavy buck two years previously.

“About 5:30 p.m., while it was still pretty good daylight, the buck showed up walking the same grass trail where I’d shot my other buck two years ago,” says Cox. “He was alone, and stopped almost exactly where I’d shot my other buck at 160 yards away.”

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Cox raised his Christensen Arms Mesa rifle, chambered in 7mm Remington Magnum, settled the crosshairs of his scope behind the buck’s shoulder, and fired.

The deer crumpled and never moved. The 5.5-year old buck has 13-scorable points, and one broken tine, with a green gross score of 157 7/8-inches.

“He was in great shape, but weighed only 186 pounds, when usually a mature buck here is 230 pounds or so,” said Cox about his buck. “But he’s a great deer, and I’ll be glad to get the mount back from the taxidermist.”

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By: Bob McNally
Title: Louisiana Rifle Hunter Shoots Back-to-Back Delta Bucks From the Same Blind
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Published Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 17:29:06 +0000