‘It didn’t look real. It looked like something fake that somebody put on Facebook to be funny. Everything is very symmetrical to be a non-typical, which is weird.’
Mississippi Clarion Ledger
It was a buck like he’d never seen. A 15-point with double rows of tines, and the symmetry is remarkable.
So much so, Johnathan Fortenberry of Magnolia thought someone was playing a joke on him.
However, it wasn’t a joke and Mississippi’s worst weather of the year so far combined with determination put Fortenberry in the right place at the right time.
“When I first got the pictures, my first thought was somebody, somehow, got my footage and they photoshopped my pictures,” Fortenberry said. “I was in utter disbelief.”
“It didn’t look real. It looked like something fake that somebody put on Facebook to be funny. Everything is very symmetrical to be a non-typical, which is weird.”
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Photos of buck few and far between
Fortenberry said the first images he saw of the buck came in 2021 when it was a 13-point. He continued to get photos of the buck, but they were few and far between. Fortenberry said he got two photos in 2021 and only one the following year.