"A big ditch was an obvious place to look, but there was no sign of him so I turned around and headed back to the powerline, and I just walked right up on this beast of a deer.” “When my driver, Kym, arrived, I skipped the brush in the powerline and went straight to the dried leaves in the woods to find blood, and I found one drop. “I convinced myself that there was no way that I had hit that deer, but I would look for him anyway hoping I had cut him,” Scroggs said. The buck ran out of sight, and Scroggs had to sit tight until the hunt staff returned. “I grabbed my gun from between my legs and clicked the safety off before standing and firing three rounds as accurately as I could.” “The buck was 65-yards away from my stand, and he was looking directly at me, and I knew I had no chance of getting a shot off without him seeing me,” Scroggs said. While Scroggs was texting a friend about his doe harvest at about 11:15 he looked up and there was the buck with the lumber yard on his head. “I had a close and easy shot on the doe when she trotted right towards me, and I gave her three rounds of buckshot,” said Scroggs.Įlated about shooting a deer, Scroggs still had three hours of hunting time to go, and by 11 a.m. Sitting on the corner of a powerline and a secondary road, hunting dogs were turned loose near his position, and by 9 a.m. It would not take long for the action to get started. and given directions not to leave that spot until hunt staff returned for him. 4 Scroggs was taken to his stand by 8 a.m. A safety meeting proceeds each hunt and on Dec. The deer control activities as they are known at the SRS are held each year in an attempt to thin the deer herd on the expansive property. Scroggs shot the deer with a borrowed Remington 870 12-gauge and used Winchester 3-inch 00 buckshot. "I am already working extra hours to pay for it.” “I am getting him mounted, and I would pay $1,000 to mount him if I had too. “This is the biggest buck I have ever killed, and he carried a 19-inch outside spread and an 18 1/2-inch inside spread,” Scroggs said. After the tape was applied to the tines (including G2s that measured 11-inches) and calculations were made, the buck scored an astounding 161 inches.
The deer had a massive rack that included a 5 1/2-inch base on the left side and a 6-inch base on the right side. Scroggs did not have to settle for nothing as one of his 45 buckshot pellets from the three rounds he fired towards a fleeing buck found purchase in the whitetail's lungs after breaking two ribs. “I was so happy about going that I would have been happy with nothing as long as we had some fun.” “I had been on a dog drive only once before down in South Georgia,” Scroggs said. Scroggs was excited about attending his first-ever draw hunt at the SRS with family members Jimmy Carpenter and Glenn Cline. With rules and regulations stating that hunters could take only one doe and one buck, Scroggs filled his tags and then some when he took down an SRS trophy. 4 draw hunt at the Savannah River Site near Aiken. But he took time to work in some deer hunting during the Dec. 4th monster 8-point from the Savannah River SiteĬole Scroggs is an Augusta, Ga., high school student who has a passion for redfishing and duck hunting. You can also plan to do some holiday shopping during your visit! For more information, visit Quickshot online at or call at Croggs with his Dec. Please join them for this festive occasion as they show off their facility, equipment and staff. They are the newest shooting range in the Savannah community with additional locations in the Atlanta and Charleston, SC areas. Quickshot Savannah will be hosting a ribbon cutting on Friday, December 9 at their new location at 7202 White Bluff Road. Location: 500 West River Street, adjacent to the historic river walk power plant The groundbreaking event will feature live music by Velvet Caravan Quartet. The 670,000-square foot property will also include retail space, 13 food and beverage outlets including 3 rooftop bars, an art gallery, a live music venue to accommodate 700, a 484-space parking deck and a 1.5 acre public park along the river. The Kessler Collection is proud to invite Chamber members and the public to the groundbreaking ceremony for Plant Riverside District, a 419-room J.W. Please support your fellow Chamber members by attending these upcoming ribbon cutting and grand opening events.
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