Jason Erb poses with his Ohio bruiser that approached 200 inches. (Courtesy Jason Erb)
By Steve Rogers, OutdoorChannel.com
Jason Erb’s longtime friend, an avid turkey hunter, referred to the whitetail deer on his property as “woods carp,” even the trophy ones.
Deer, he said, only got in the way for the pursuit of his beloved gobblers.
“He’s a huge turkey hunter,” Erb said. “(Deer) are a nuisance to him. We go turkey hunting all the time and we can see 140-, 150-inch deer, and he’ll just go, ‘Yeah, that’s nice.’ They mess up his turkey hunting.”
But even he was impressed by the monster buck Erb harvested on the property in early November.
Erb, 41, a mechanical engineer from Alliance, Ohio, dropped the behemoth...