Clark takes trophy, with dad/mentor nearby

Daughter’s buck exceeds 176 inches gross

Allison Kincaid Clark started hunting when she was 7 so she could spend time with her dad.

So it was appropriate then on Dec. 17 that Clark, now married and living and selling women’s health supplies in Memphis, was sitting in a stand not far from her dad, Robert Kincaid, when she killed what he called a buck of a lifetime.

Using the lessons taught her by her dad, Clark shot a monster buck that grosses over 176 inches Boone and Crockett as a 12-point main frame typical.

“I had rushed down from Memphis to meet my father for an afternoon hunt in Carroll County,” she said. “He had told me that the bucks were chasing does and to not shoot a doe without seeing if a buck was chasing it. Oh, was he ever right.”

An hour after climbing into her stand, a doe came running of the woods.

“I just knew a buck was chasing her, the way she was running, so I waited and I watched,” Clark said. “Then he stepped out. I could tell he was massive without binoculars but I looked through them to count the horns. I quit counting at five and grabbed my .308.

“My heart was beating so fast and loud that I just knew I was shaking the stand. I had to calm down and concentrate on aiming.”

Clark was smart enough to avoid looking at the deer’s head.

“I could not look at his rack or I would get more nervous,” she said. “It seemed like I aimed forever because I was trying to make the perfect shot. Finally, I pulled the trigger.

“He jumped straight up and ran into the woods. I knew I hit him and I heard him thrashing in the woods.”

When the thrashing quit, she said she climbed down but decided to wait for Kincaid.

“I was hunting a stand in a bottom next to a creek, not far away and I heard Allison shoot,” said Kincaid, of Greenville. “I finished hunting and went to check on her and I found her standing over deer blood. She said she’d shot a big one. We tracked the buck and found him 20 minutes later.

“When I saw the mass of the deer and the antlers, I knew we were going to need help. I called a friend who drove an hour to help us. He was glad to do it and had never seen a deer like this.”

Few people have. In addition to the trophy antlers, the buck was huge, weighing over 160 pounds field dressed.

“We could not believe what we were looking at,” Clark said. “I had never seen a deer that big. He was much bigger than what I thought.

“My husband is a big duck hunter, but he’s considering taking up deer hunting now. He made space in his office for my buck’s head, but I think I will put in my office.”

 

Bobby Cleveland • bcleveland@clarionledger.com •