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THURSDAYS Crazy Bike Nights

Once again, I was sitting in the deer stand on a beautiful fall morning when a small buck walked out of the woods.

He had a really bad limp. I was sitting there, thinking to myself that maybe I should take him out.

I waited too long, and then he was out of my range. He limped over the hill and I climbed off my deer stand. I walked toward the hill and stopped to look over to see if I could see the deer. I couldn’t see him anywhere, so I gave up and went back to my stand. About twenty minutes later, I had another decision to make as I sat up there. A really nice eight-point buck walks out of the woods, but there is another deer with him. This buck’s rack was messed up; three on the left side and there was one on the right and they were all in velvet. I have to make a decision—which one to shoot? I decided to take out the deer with the messed-up rack, which I thought was cool. To me, it’s not always the size of the rack, it’s the hunting experience. My other Michigan tag, I arrowed an eleven-point buck, which scored over 140 inches B.C. – and that is now in the Michigan Record Book. That is another story for me to tell later.

“Get outdoors if you can; it’s a great place to be. This is Michigan! It doesn’t get any better than this.”

Crow Man holds the Michigan Grand Slam title, as he finished fall/winter 2005 with an elk.

The Michigan Grand Slam is the title given for having the state record of the four Michigan animals that CBM recognizes as trophies by a single hunter. Those four animals are deer, bear, elk, and turkeys. The accomplishment has always been considered so rare.The added challenge of drawing a limited bear tag and particularly a bull elk tag, and to harvest animals that make the record book minimums seems insurmountable. However, it miraculously has been done by a select few. Crow Man is of that select few. MAY 2018 THUNDER ROADS MAGAZINE MICHIGAN 47