Ghost buck' changed live for Wis. familyBy SAM COOK - Duluth News Tribune
DULUTH, Minn. - When Larry Kline shot the "ghost buck" near Gordon, Wis., in 2004, he told his wife, Amy, "This deer is going to change our life."
"And it has," he said.
The 23-point nontypical whitetail, which Kline shot with a bow, scored a net 214 inches on the Pope and Young scoring scale. At the time, it was the No. 3 bow-killed whitetail in Wisconsin (it has since slipped to No. 9).
The buck made the cover of two magazines and now stands, with a full-body mount, in Kline's hunting shack near Gordon. It vaulted Kline into an elite group of deer hunters nationally.
"Shooting that buck has opened a lot of doors for me," Kline said, "giving me the opportunity to hunt other places and going to shows."
He has hunted multiple times with an outfitter in Buffalo County, Wis., considered by many the home of America's biggest whitetail bucks. On opening day of last fall's gun deer season, hunting at Bluff Country Outfitters near Alma, Kline shot a huge 14-point typical buck that measured 191 inches.
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