Every day, destiny sets the scene for two paths to cross one another.  Two paths that may have never been close to each other before, can meet in an instant, and certain times that instant can change both of those lives forever.  Such is the case for Jason Meyers of Catahoula Parish and the big Louisiana buck he met up with on November 27, 2011.

“Me, my grandpa, and my uncle all hunt our family land in Catahoula Parish.  I like to hunt the edges of the fields sometimes when there’s not anybody else hunting there.  I hunt like that so I can see which way the deer are traveling and where they’re traveling.  It’s a ‘hunt and scout at the same time’ kind of thing,” said Meyers.

To get to the spot that he wanted to hunt that Sunday afternoon, Jason had to cross two shooting lanes with food plots on them.  “I usually sit about 500 yards from the last food plot that I have to cross.  It’s about a 200 yard lane that this food plot is in and it has a feeder on it.  I sat by the edge of the field until about 5:00 p.m. and it had started to rain and the wind was blowing pretty hard.  I decided that I’d get up and walk to my truck because it was getting a little dark.  As I got closer to the shooting lane, I saw the camera at the feeder flash, so I knew that something was there,” Meyers explained.

Before he got to the lane, Jason decided to ease up to it and look, just incase “that something” was a shooter buck.  “I figured that it was a doe and some yearlings there at the feeder like always.  Sure enough, as I got to where I could see, I saw some silhouettes down at the feeder and I could tell it was the deer I thought it would be,” said Meyers.

Just as he was about to continue his walk, Jason saw another silhouette just past the does and it was much larger than they were.  “I still had my gun on my shoulder when I saw this other, much larger deer down there, close to the feeder but in some trees.  I decided I’d better scope this deer to see what it was, so I propped my gun up on a half rotten to tree to take a look.  About the time I got the deer in my scope, he started walking towards me.  I finally made it up to his head and that’s when I saw all those horns coming at me,” laughed Meyers.

Jason Meyers proudly displays his wide-racked buck.

As the deer made his way past the feeder and the other deer, Jason waited patiently for his opportunity for a good shot.  “I watched him coming to me and I remembered that his horns were almost rubbing the wood line on the edge of the food plot. He walked about 50 yards down the lane before I was able to shoot. I wanted to shoot him straight on so bad I couldn’t stand it, but I was scared that I’d miss,” explained Meyers.

When the deer turned slightly to go into the woods, Jason let his 7mm STW do the talking. The deer immediately fell forwards, but made his way into the woods with his back legs. Meyers instantly ran to the downed animal, hoping to finish it off. He found the deer taking his final breaths and waited patiently for the inevitable to happen. “I knew he was about to die, so I just watched him with my finger on the trigger until he was dead,” Meyers said.

Jason immeditely called his little brother to tell him the news of his monstrously wide buck. When he told his brother how wide he guessed the buck’s rack to be, his brother didn’t believe him, so Jason went back and used a conventional method of measurement. “I told him that I’d use my arm. He said, ‘Your arm?  He’s wide enough to measure him with your arm?’ When I laid my finger tips on one side of the rack, the other side was almost under my arm pit and I’m 6’ 1”!” exclaimed Meyers.

The deer’s spread was an impressive 29 1/4” wide and had 12 points. Meyers roughly scored the deer at 178 2/8” and he had a massive weight of 264 pounds. Both main beams on the rack were right at 27″ long.

If Jason Meyers had left 5 minutes before or after he did that day, he would have never seen the monster buck he had the good fortune of killing. He summed up the whole story in one sentence as we parted on the telephone: “I tell everybody that I talk to and ask about this deer that all me and he did was happen up on one another.”