Eddie Harrell’s 4-Year Obsession with a Phantom Buck

By AmmoLand Editor Duncan Johnson

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- As many of you know, once you’ve found a monster buck, that deer becomes an obsession until you finally take him. “I dreamed about Phantom at night, and a day never passed that I didn’t think about him,” Eddie Harrell of Lena, Mississippi, who had named his buck, reminisces. “I’d had three chances to take this biggest buck I’d ever seen but missed him.”

In 2011, Phantom was a huge 9-point, 3-year-old buck. This story perhaps should have ended in 2011 when Phantom was only 40 yards from Harrell’s tree stand. Harrell could see Phantom in his Redfield Illuminator 3x12x56mm scope on his Mossberg 7mm.

“I really shouldn’t have shot at the deer that was walking straight away from me, since the time was late in the afternoon, and I couldn’t see the crosshairs in my scope,” Harrell remembers. “But I told myself, ‘You can’t take that deer if you don’t pull the trigger.’ I aimed for the back of the buck’s head, 3-4 inches …Read the Rest

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