When a Mississippi hunter got in his blind on the opening day of the early archery season, the hunt didn’t look very promising. He was dealing with a deer with a pattern that made him almost impossible to hunt. To top it off, it was Friday the 13th .
He was after a 7-year-old buck with a massive rack in Southwest Mississippi that the landowner named Houdini . Not only would the hunter harvest the 175-inch giant, he did it when the buck was shedding his velvet.
“He had this one he’d been following since he was 5 1/2 (years old),” said Joe Bumgardner of Starkville. “He called him Houdini since he disappeared as soon as he shed his velvet and was no longer seen in daylight. He was nocturnal.”
For the superstitious, it would be an unlucky day, but that didn’t seem to bother Bumgardner. What did concern him was Houdini appeared to have already performed his disappearing act.
“I really didn’t expect to see him,” Bumgardner said.
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