You Could Say This Deer Scored an Upset
George Maxwell Jr. of La Grange considered himself a very lucky man after a shootout with a 10-point deer in South Texas. Maxwell was sitting atop a 13-foot hunter’s tripod, using a mesquite tree for a blind, when he shot a 10-pointer at a range of about 80 yards in thick brush. The deer bounded away, and Maxwell, thinking he had missed, threw another shell into the hair-trigger rifle. He was watching the far distance when the deer charged the mesquite tree, sending the tripod flying. Down came Maxwell, clawing for something to grab onto among the mesquite branches. The fall knocked the hunter out, and when he came to minutes later, he found himself staring down the barrel of his deer rifle. Remembering it was loaded and cocked, he very carefully moved the barrel aside. The rifle stock was cracked on both sides of the trigger, but miraculously, the shell had not fired. Maxwell later found the deer dead about 70 yards beyond the mesquite.
