14-point buck harvested by Madison County man

A Madison County man recently harvested a 14-point buck during Mississippi’s velvet season.

Pat Seabrook killed the massive deer with a bow at the Joe Dehmer Family Farm near Raymond, Mississippi, which scored in at 189 ⅝ inches and weighed 230 pounds. 

“It’s just one of those things I have been thinking about and strategizing about since August,” Seabrook said. “I never even imagined being able to kill a 150-inch deer with my bow and I ended up killing a 189-inch deer with my bow, so it’s just been surreal for me.”

Pat said that he and his brother, Will Seabrook, had been helping manage the property for deer for nearly four years. 

“Over the years we have been seeing the deer population keep getting better there,” Seabrook said. “I really just give a lot of the credit to our management effort and especially to Josh Dehmer and all his work on it.”

The 14-point buck had only been spotted once and that came last year, but had seen that it had gotten significantly bigger since it was last spotted on camera in August, which made Seabrook excited to even have an opportunity to kill the huge deer. He had been scouting the deer and another ten-point buck that had been together and their bedding patterns during the offseason.

“I really started scouting and figuring out the land during the offseason more than I ever have,” Seabrook said. “I really just started to figure out the areas they were bedding in and coming through and I guess I just ended up playing my cards right.”

Seabrook shot the buck from around 55 yards out just after 7 PM on September 13th. He and the land owner found the deer around 50 yards away from the spot of the initial shot in a rough thicket on the property. 

“I hit him with a frontal shot, which is not always an ideal shot, but it ended up hitting him just right in his chest cavity,” Seabrook said. “I called Josh (Dehmer), who has been a big part of this process and although the deer didn’t run too far, he was hard to find with it being late in that thicket. It was just a surreal moment when we found him and everyone was so excited.”

He just recently started practicing with his bow more frequently and said that he practiced heavily with it over the summer for a moment like this.

“I have been shooting my bow three or four times a week since the end of July, getting ready for this moment,” Seabrook said. “I just really had to control my emotions and remember all that practice I had put in and it ended up paying off.”