Stillwater's McCurry, long time hunter, takes two career bucks on back to back days

BY Ed Godfrey

Published: November 23, 2008

More than 300 inches of antlers in back-to-back days. That’s what one Stillwater hunter can boast.

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Stacey McCurry has been deer hunting for 35 years but killed the two biggest bucks of his life on back-to-back days last month – one with a muzzleloader and the other with a bow.

"I’ve been hunting a lot of years and never experienced anything like that,” he said. "Those are my two biggest deer and to have done it on two consecutive days like that, it’s just unbelievable.”

Both were taken off of a Payne County lease that McCurry shares with his son-in-law from Edmond. They had just acquired the lease last spring.

They were told the property hadn’t been hunted much in recent years, and the two 150-class bucks may be proof of that.

"We had never seen these bucks,” McCurry said. "We had never put up trail cams down there.”

The first buck McCurry claimed on the morning of Oct. 25 – the opening day of muzzleloader season.

McCurry prefers to bow hunt. "It’s more of a rush,” he said.

He carried both his muzzleloader and bow that morning and was hunting from a tripod when the buck came from around some cedar trees to check on his scrapes.

"I hadn’t planned to see anything like that,” he said. "He presented a nice shot. I couldn’t pass it up when I had my muzzleloader right there.”

The next day on the opposite corner of the section, McCurry was bow hunting from a ladder stand in a timbered creek bed where deer had been feeding on acorns. He harvested his second big buck late in the afternoon.

The muzzleloader buck scored 152 7/8 while the archery buck is 158 6/8.

His son-in-law has yet to take a buck off of the new lease.

"Now, he’s chomping at the bit to kill something,” McCurry said. "I do feel pretty fortunate. I feel a little bit of guilt over the thing, just because he hasn’t been able to do anything yet. But not that much.”

McCurry plans to mount the bucks – one looking left and other looking right – in opposite corners of his television room.

"Now when I am watching my hunting shows, I can look up there and say I’ve done that,” he said.

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