Luck. Fate. Whatever you want to call it, Grant Seitz was in the right place at the right time, twice in two days.
He saw this 20-point buck midday from the road in November 2021, grazing in a 60-acre field of unpicked corn on his uncle’s property in Martin County, Indiana. Grant had never seen the deer before, or anything close to its caliber in the decades he’s hunted the place.
Two days later, during the state’s first weekend of rifle season, in the same field just after lunch and broadside at 55 yards, Grant sealed the deal on Indiana’s sixth-largest buck taken with a rifle.
Buckmasters scorer Mark Verble measured this Martin County monster at 228 1/8 inches.
Grant's buck is an irregular 11x9 with relatively clean bases and an 18-inch inside spread. Many of its 10 irregular points emerge directly from the main beams and carry one-third of 210 1/8 total inches-of-antler (before spread) calculation.
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