This is the actual entry from Benjamin Landry’s personal journal on his account of what happend to him on January 22, 2011.  This story is amazing and is probably one of the best I’ve read in a very long time.  No writer, veteran or novice, could ever “put pen to paper” the way that Benjamin has done.  We hope you enjoy this as much as we did.  

01/23/11

Yesterday…Our hunting members and Juan Castillo and Jacques Migues located a lifetime deer that I shot the afternoon before. It was a great experience for all of us. This deer has been tracked, photographed, and shot at by many local area hunters, and it has become sort of a small legend in the area! The whole chain of events was really perfect!

First of all, I was allowed to hunt in Sidney “Peewee” Guidry’s stand, because he had taken two bucks from that location, and he said he was “tired” and “finished” deer hunting for the season. I decided to stake out the stand for the entire weekend.

Palmation like this is almost unheard of in whitetail deer.

It started Thursday with Juan and I feeding the entire location heavily with soybean and rice bran and then we hunted that evening where we weathered a stiff front that came through with some rain and cold wind. We saw two does that hunt and nothing more. Next morning, it was 37 degrees and a stiff North wind. Shooting time was 6:35am. We saw one doe very close to us eating the soybean very early. Nothing else was moving, and then at 7:15am, he appeared traveling East to West across a pipeline, but he was around 400 yds away, and I am not an experienced rifle shooter by any means. I was reluctant to take the shot, but I noticed while looking that he was a large animal with a very distinct “Palmetto” rack. I had been sent pictures of a deer last year that seemed similar. He did not stop in the shooting lane, he just walked steadily across and disappeared into the woods. Needless to say, Juan and I were excited to see our first shooter buck of the season.