Big Oklahoma County buck
Jody Slingo of Jones perhaps has the best buck thus far of Oklahoma's archery season
I’ve never been a superstitious guy, but I may have to reconsider.
Last week I wrote a story about 17-girl from Poteau who had her nails painted hunter orange for luck, then she went hunting and bagged a bear.
Now, I get this photo and story from Jody Slingo of Jones about bagging a buck of a lifetime after getting his lucky haircut.
By most reports, archery deer season has been pretty slow thus far. It’s been hot and deer haven’t been on the move very much.
Slingo, however, on Oct. 9 bagged a beautiful buck in northeast Oklahoma County that grossed 183 7/8 and weighed an estimated 210 pounds field dressed.
“We guessed since he maxed out the scale,” Slingo said.
Slingo said his first saw the big buck through binoculars on Sept. 29 while scouting from the tree stand he had put up for opening day.
“I had never seen him or the other 5 bucks in his group,” Slingo said. “He was no doubt the boss. I couldn’t tell exactly what he was but was sure he was the main frame 12.”
With the opening day of bow season two days away, Slingo was afraid he wouldn’t see the buck again.
On opening day, all the bucks, except the big one, emerged from the woods and made their way near Slingo’s tree stand.
Slingo’s trophy buck finally arrived in the early evening but it was too dark to get a shot.
“I sat in the stand until 9:45 p.m. when he left,” Slingo said.
The next day, the same pattern repeated. On Oct. 3, Slingo moved his tree stand to get downwind of the buck.
He took a shot that day at the big buck but missed as the buck ducked the arrow and vanished.
“I was sick,” said Slingo, who believed he would never see that buck again.
The following Saturday, Slingo decided to get his lucky haircut from Heather Hawkins at V’s Salon on 23rd Street between Choctaw and Harrah.
“Best thing there is for hunter’s luck,” Slingo said. “One year before, almost to the day, she cut my hair and two days later I stuck a 147-inch West Texas bruiser.”
With his lucky haircut, he climbed back into his tree stand on Oct. 9. Just like the previous days, several deer emerged from the woods but this time they were all does.
“I kept thinking he was gone,” Slingo said. “Then a crack to my left and unbelievably the 10-point (buck) that runs with him is standing at the edge of the thicket and walks out to the shooting lane.
“Then the buck I missed six days before stood at the edge, scent checked 20 times and made the mistake of giving me a second chance.”
Slingo put an arrow in the buck and an hour later, with the help of his friend Londo Duran, they were able to find the whitetail 60 yards from the stand.
“Jody, that’s a buck of a lifetime,” Londo told him.
Slingo believes the keys to bagging the buck were patience, attention to the wind and Heather’s lucky haircut.
“She’s good luck. I swear it.”
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wow what a buck. i killed a old buck years ago in throckmorton,tx in tha early 1996 it had 17 points and his rack curled in like a bowl, he was a old buck and it took me three years too get him, one day around 2p.m. he slipped up and i got him by tha fence line where my blind was with a 243 rifle. that was a special day for me after that i never hunted anymore much. sincerely ou-johnny in texas.
What a beautiful BUCK!! That’s going to take up the whole wall. Congratulations to Jody. I am wondering what your thoughts are on removing this fellow from the gene pool. Yes I know that he has young ones, running around, and that if someone else had the chance, they’d being putting him on display at their place…or mother nature may have had a hand in his demise…but….is there any value to the idea to let him propitiate ….you know pass on his genes…although I would’ve taken the shot myself ….and with a bow…wow…F.L. Okla. City.
O M GOODNESS!!! I bet that will be a lifetime memory. And talked about by many… Can’t wait till my son comes home so I can show him, the trophy BUCK you found… How AWESOME.. Congratulations! He’s Gorgeous!
The joy attending the deliberate killing of a fellow sentient being is not an occasion for celebration. To make death, especially the unnecessary death by ambush of an animal simply trying to live his life is something that should be an instance of repugnance and sadness.
Vegan – Grow a pair. Im sick that its not my deer and that I have to share this wonderful planet with people like you.
Vegan- I am saddened at the death of all the poor beutiful plants that are just trying to live a peacefull life of swaying in the wind and soaking up the sunshine just so you can avoid eating meat. Maybe you should eat some meat that contains the protien that rose us up from the ranks of the apes.
Vegan- Carnivour by NATURAL design I am, you are a vegan by choice. You represent a tiny, TINY number of individuals who choose to not eat meat and good for you. When was the last time a carnivour judged you for eating lettuce? I dare say never! Go fill your tofu consuming pie hole with some peanut butter. Jodi- Awsome freaking dear! Were you able to find your heart after it jumped out of your chest?
VEGAN GET A LIFE THE LORD PROVIDES FOR ALL MEAT FOR SOME GREENS FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU SO HAVE A SALAD AND SHUT UP. GREAT BUCK WAY TO GO
What an awesome buck man! To take a buck like that with a bow takes alot of skill. I like how dedicated you were to sit in your stand until 9:45 until the buck left! Congrats on the buck of a life time!
That is one heck of a buck!