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It\u2019s tough for Carson Reeve to find a lot of time to hunt. Between preparing for his first college baseball season, filming hunts with his hunting-show-host parents, going to school, and doing other normal 19-year-old things, Reeve\u2019s schedule is pretty packed. Luckily he wasn\u2019t too busy to get out to hunt in Minnesota on Nov. 5 and 6. If he hadn\u2019t, the three-beamed whitetail buck he arrowed might have walked into someone else\u2019s sights on a different farm the next day. It was Minnesota\u2019s opening weekend of gun season, but Reeve still decided to hunt with his bow.<\/p>\n
Reeve ended up making a perfect shot during last light on Sunday, Nov. 6. from 35 yards. He had been archery hunting a different farm where he has permission prior to the rifle opener, so this deer wasn\u2019t really on his radar. But after seeing little activity on that acreage, he made the switch to his dad\u2019s property. He set up in a box blind over a bean field and watched the buck walk out in fading light, chasing a doe. Eventually the buck crept within range and Reeve let an arrow fly. The buck made it about 50 yards before falling right inside the boundary of the woods on the edge of his dad\u2019s farm property. <\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t until Reeve compared the whacky antlers with a set of sheds from 2021 that he realized he had history with this buck. <\/p>\n \u201cWe picked up his sheds last year when he was a 4-year-old main-frame 10-pointer, and we don\u2019t really know what happened to him,\u201d Reeve tells Outdoor Life. \u201cWe knew he\u2019d be five and a half this fall. Then we had a deer with a triple-beam show up this year and didn\u2019t really think anything of it.\u201d <\/p>\n But when Reeve compared the antlers side-by-side, he knew without a doubt that the triple-beam buck and the 10-point buck were the same deer. But something had clearly happened over the previous year that changed the way those antlers grew. It\u2019s pretty common knowledge that hind leg injuries can result in funky antler growth on the opposite side. But Reeve didn\u2019t see anything out of the ordinary on this buck after dressing it out.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re very confused by it. Last year he was a clean five-by-five,\u201d Reeve says. \u201cThe farm we\u2019re hunting isn\u2019t close to any roads. We don\u2019t know if he got injured. But he grew a somewhat normal antler and added the extra two beams on there. We matched up the sheds and it\u2019s definitely the same deer.\u201d <\/p>\n Few understand whitetail hunting better than Reeve\u2019s parents, Pat and Nicole Reeve of \u201cDriven with Pat and Nicole<\/a>\u201d on the Outdoor Channel. The show has been running for 17 years and both have Pat and Nicole have taken many impressive animals. They have passed their passions down to their son, who has hunted and fished around Minnesota his whole life. <\/p>\n \u201cHe keeps growing and so do his [bucks],\u201d they write of Reeve in an Instagram post<\/a>. \u201cNot much has changed over the years!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n