If Kellogg’s takes a page from Wheaties’ playbook, you’ll soon see Bree Wade’s smiling face on boxes of blueberry Pop-Tarts.
That’s what the 17-year-old high school senior had for breakfast on the morning of Oct. 20, 2018, the day she took down one of Oklahoma’s most impressive public-land whitetails.
As is often the case, Bree was hunting with her father, Mitch. This was her last day to qualify as a “youth hunter,” requiring adult supervision.
Father and daughter walked a couple of hundred yards into the 10,000-acre public tract in McCurtain County, cleared the leaves from the base of a tree, and sat down to watch a creek bottom.
There were a lot of pin oak acorns out there.
She missed a wild hog around 8:00. About 20 minutes later, a doe appeared briefly before disappearing in a thicket. A buck was 30 minutes behind her.
“I saw it walking, coming quickly from my right with its head down, trailing her,” Bree told Gita Smith, who’s writing her story for Rack magazine. “I couldn’t tell how big it was until it turned in my direction.”
To slow or stop the deer so his daughter could get a shot, Mitch blew his grunt call. The plan worked.
The buck forgot about the doe and came straight to them. When it entered an open spot 45 yards away, Bree’s .243 Remington barked, and the bullet clipped the deer’s heart.
The whitetail with the 2-foot-wide antlers set tongues wagging all over town.
“The Deuce,” as she calls him, has not been measured yet for the BTR.
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